From: Graham Tritt Subject: Re: Oracle 8i on Linux - nnflboot? Date: 2000/03/03 Message-ID: <38BF9B78.3F7F2037@bfi.admin.ch>#1/1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38B5F2C7.26CCB6F6@alumni.princeton.edu> <89mfvr$100$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.102.38.69 To: pcs007@my-deja.com X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@ip-plus.net X-Trace: pollux.ip-plus.net 952081266 26253 193.5.216.70 (3 Mar 2000 11:01:06 GMT) Organization: Swisscom IP+ (post doesn't reflect views of Swisscom) Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Mar 2000 11:01:06 GMT Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server thanks Peter for the hints. Success! It was a combination of all of these! 1. The .bash_profile had an incorrect LD_LIBRARY_PATH 2. the /etc/lb.so.conf was ok but we needed to run ldconfig, I still don't understand the warnings it still gives 3. deleted 8.1.5 and all installed software 4. deleted oraInventory and other files even oui in $ORACLE_HOME so the installer knows that it has to build everything 5. reinstalled 6. ran patches no errors in the /tmp/81501.log or /tml/81502.log any more sqlplus and svrmgrl ok 7. copied initXXXX.ora into $ORACLE_HOME/dbs database started ok Now I gotta start with SQL*Net and building some databases ... Later with Oracle Application Server and ... and ... Thanks pcs007@my-deja.com wrote: > 1) Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:$ORACLE_HOME/lib > 2) Adding $ORACLE_HOME/lib to /etc/lb.so.conf and running ldconfig > 3). delete the oraInventory and contents of ORACLE_HOME >