Oracle 9i on Mandrake 9.2 Linux

Have any Mandrake 9.2 users been successful in installing Oracle 9i on their systems ? I have managed to install 9.2.0.1, primarily relying on the instructions for Red Hat on www.puschitz.com. Oracle seems to work fine but only as the "oracle" user. I haven't been able to get it to work for any other user. I have checked my steps by going over them 3 times now (removed oracle and started again).

The problem I get, initially, when connecting to sqlplus as a user is :-

ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
ORA-27123: unable to attach to shared memory segment Linux Error: 13: Permission denied

I have been down all the shared memory routes with this as suggested on puschitz.com. I then started to follow threads that I read about permissions on the oracle binaries. I tried changing the oracle binary itself to have the permissions "-rwsr-s--x". This changed my connection error to :-

oracletest: error while loading shared libraries: libodm9.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ERROR:
ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact

Maybe more permissions problems ?

Anyway. I am well out of my depth now and would appreciate some pointers if anyone can help ?

Many Thanks

Neil Received on Sat Jan 03 2004 - 13:40:30 CST