Re: 7.0.12 install problems on SunOS 4.1

From: Ray Dutcher <rdutc_at_ia.mc.xerox.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 20:09:05 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Apr5.200905.28575_at_spectrum.xerox.com>


I recently installed 7.0.12 on a Sun IPC 4.1.2 and I used the std. "oracle" user. I did run into a problem with symbolic links though. I defined my ORACLE_HOME to point to /usr/oracle7.... where /usr/oracle7 is a symbolic link. Even though I replied with the /usr/oracle7 path as ORACLE_HOME in the orainst screen it stuck the actual path rather than the symbolic link path in the control file as verified by doing a strings function on the control file and looking at the second line of the output. I found

 this out when I tried to startup the DB after it had been shutdown and I received the following error: ORA-00205: error in identifying control file '/usr/oracle7/dba/oracle/data/......' where it gives the path name specified in the init.ora control_files parm. If I change ORACLE_HOME to point to the actual dir. rather than the symbolic link then the startup works. Support said, "Don't use symbolic links in your ORACLE_HOME". But I've always used them with V6. I asked to have a bug open on it, #158866. I also use their recommended ORACLE_BASE structure and it didn't expand that path in the install.log fi

le in $ORACLE_HOME/orainst. So for now make sure you don't use symbolic links in your ORACLE_HOME path.

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Ray Dutcher
Oracle DBA
Xerox Corp.
1350 Jefferson Rd., 801-15A
Rochester, NY 14623
Received on Mon Apr 05 1993 - 22:09:05 CEST

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