Re: Oracle 9i on Mandrake 9.2 Linux

Neil Holmes wrote:
> 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 ?
>

Given that you successfully diagnosed & corrected the 1st problem, CONGRATULATIONS!. I suspect that LD_LIBRARY_PATH does not include $ORACLE_HOME/lib; which is where you should be able to find "libodm9.so".

I really suggest that you stop treating this like Windoze, and actually try to RTFM; which is some flavor of Installation Guide for *NIX. Received on Sat Jan 03 2004 - 14:00:16 CST