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Oracle 8.0.5 Enterprise Edition CD-ROM for HP-UX 11.0 (32-bits)
(Part number A65616-01) has "problems".
Basically, here's what they were:
Basically, here's the crucial output section from "tusc" (an HP-UX tracing program) when I PFS-mount the CD-ROM, go to the <CDROM>/orainst tree and run "./orainst" directly from the CD-ROM:
fcntl(6, F_SETLK, 2139006168) .................................. [sleeping]
In other words, a lock is being attempted on an open CD-ROM file and the process hangs ("sleeps") ! You can't even kill the installer - you have to get reboot the machine to get rid of the process.
After much gnashing of teeth, I ended up back-to-back tar copying the files off the CD-ROM onto a hard disk and then running them from there and - voila - it worked, proving that PFS locking was to blame. Note that the matching "Oracle Developer" CD-ROM for 11.0 (version 1.6.1.0.0 - part number A64710-01) actually *can* run the installer from the CD-ROM directly, suggesting that the PFS bug only crops up on certain CD-ROMs and not others. Also note that the equivalent CD-ROM's for HP-UX 10.20 mounted and installed from the CD-ROM fine as well (on a 10.20 system of course).
$ORACLE_HOME/network/install/protocols/protocols.vrf $ORACLE_HOME/network/install/protocols/protocols.ins
Both these files have - amazingly - been modified for 11.0 compared to their 10.20 equivalents (it was a good job Oracle shipped me both the 10.20 and 11.0 CD-ROMs, to allow me to do a "diff" !) when surely - for 8.0.5 - they should be the same ? Looking at the 10.20 version, it had some macro call commented out and extra code added to compensate for what must have been faulty macro call, but the 11.0 version had it uncommented and the extra code was missing.
There were no other diffs between the 10.20 and 11.0 versions of the scripts, so I simply copied the 10.20 version on top of the 11.0 version, restarted the Oracle installer and re-installed...and it installed perfectly with no installation syntax errors.
Basically, HP-UX 11.0 32-bit users had better be very wary about the 8.0.5 CD-ROM - it'll catch out anyone who isn't willing to get their hands dirty !
I find it very difficult to believe that Oracle claimed to have "certified" this release when it actually doesn't install without a lot of messing around. Mind you, it seems fine once I got it up and running - maybe they certify only the runtime bit and not the installer ? :-)
Richard K. Lloyd, E-mail: rkl_at_csc.liv.ac.uk Connect, WWW: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~rkl/3, Brownlow Street,
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