Re: Oracle 9.2.0.1/2 on Mandrake 9 - solved
Ray, right on target! After looking for disk errors in dmesg output, /var/log/messages to no avail, I finally uninstalled the whole 9.2 OH last night, re-downloaded/re-burned/re-... and this time installation of both 9.2.0.1 and a patch went with no glitches. Apparently Disk2 was corrupted/missing files/??? on downloading/burning/unpacking, but what surprised me the most is that I didn't get any errors at gunzip/cpio stage, which I always thought of as a good indication that software on CDs is valid. This assumption cost me week and a half of hopeless tries to make it work... On the bright side, some .o, .so etc. files I see in OUI during installation look painfully familiar... Thanks a lot for you help. --- Ray Stell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:50:52PM -0800 __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Boris Dali INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
Re: Oracle 9.2.0.1/2 on Mandrake 9 - solved
out of curiosity : did you ever check the filesizes in bytes of yr first corrupt downloads with the bytes of the files on the download site? i'm running O9i too, now wondering if this test might suffice to tell whether the download was successful or not. i didn't experience any probs so far until recently when i changed/patched to 9.2.0.2.0 - the oem/console dosn't display the XML database. the flaw is, that it doesn't have some index ... created a totally new -userdefined,NOT preconfigured - database and could successfully display the XML-stuff. installation is on a rh 7.2 - was a rh 8.0 - but on rh8.0 the console didn't work - unproperly terminated connect string when attempting to connect even to a local database. dumped the whole rh 8.0, reinstalled the 7.2. lfw to a reply mr [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/14/02 17:32 PM Ray, right on target! After looking for disk errors in dmesg output, /var/log/messages to no avail, I finally uninstalled the whole 9.2 OH last night, re-downloaded/re-burned/re-... and this time installation of both 9.2.0.1 and a patch went with no glitches. Apparently Disk2 was corrupted/missing files/??? on downloading/burning/unpacking, but what surprised me the most is that I didn't get any errors at gunzip/cpio stage, which I always thought of as a good indication that software on CDs is valid. This assumption cost me week and a half of hopeless tries to make it work... On the bright side, some .o, .so etc. files I see in OUI during installation look painfully familiar... Thanks a lot for you help. --- Ray Stell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:50:52PM -0800 __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Boris Dali INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Markus Reger INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
Re: Oracle 9.2.0.1/2 on Mandrake 9 - solved
Oracle Corp. finds the checksum concept to be alien. They actually posted these words to me in a tar at metalink, We don't support servers that are installed via download from otn. I guess network computing really is dead. ;) On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:54:27AM -0800, Boris Dali wrote: Ray, right on target! After looking for disk errors in dmesg output, /var/log/messages to no avail, I finally uninstalled the whole 9.2 OH last night, re-downloaded/re-burned/re-... and this time installation of both 9.2.0.1 and a patch went with no glitches. Apparently Disk2 was corrupted/missing files/??? on downloading/burning/unpacking, but what surprised me the most is that I didn't get any errors at gunzip/cpio stage, which I always thought of as a good indication that software on CDs is valid. This assumption cost me week and a half of hopeless tries to make it work... On the bright side, some .o, .so etc. files I see in OUI during installation look painfully familiar... Thanks a lot for you help. --- Ray Stell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:50:52PM -0800 __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Boris Dali INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- === Ray Stell [EMAIL PROTECTED] (540) 231-4109 KE4TJC28^D -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ray Stell INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
Re: Oracle 9.2.0.1/2 on Mandrake 9 - solved
--- Markus Reger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: out of curiosity : did you ever check the filesizes in bytes of yr first corrupt downloads with the bytes of the files on the download site? I did. They bear some resemblace, but figures are not exactly the same. I also compared sizes of files I got on disk (unpacked) after my first and second downloads and they are different for all 3 files, even though only Disk2 was... well, not good. Math doesn't seem to rule here. Go figure i'm running O9i too, now wondering if this test might suffice to tell whether the download was successful or not. i didn't experience any probs so far until recently when i changed/patched to 9.2.0.2.0 - the oem/console dosn't display the XML database. the flaw is, that it doesn't have some index ... created a totally new -userdefined,NOT preconfigured - database and could successfully display the XML-stuff. installation is on a rh 7.2 - was a rh 8.0 - but on rh8.0 the console didn't work - unproperly terminated connect string when attempting to connect even to a local database. dumped the whole rh 8.0, reinstalled the 7.2. lfw to a reply mr [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/14/02 17:32 PM Ray, right on target! After looking for disk errors in dmesg output, /var/log/messages to no avail, I finally uninstalled the whole 9.2 OH last night, re-downloaded/re-burned/re-... and this time installation of both 9.2.0.1 and a patch went with no glitches. Apparently Disk2 was corrupted/missing files/??? on downloading/burning/unpacking, but what surprised me the most is that I didn't get any errors at gunzip/cpio stage, which I always thought of as a good indication that software on CDs is valid. This assumption cost me week and a half of hopeless tries to make it work... On the bright side, some .o, .so etc. files I see in OUI during installation look painfully familiar... Thanks a lot for you help. --- Ray Stell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:50:52PM -0800 __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Boris Dali INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Markus Reger INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Boris Dali INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
RE: Oracle 9.2.0.1/2 on Mandrake 9 - solved
I've been told the same thing, but the reasoning was that they couldn't guarantee what was put out for download was actually the correct build. Not sure that's very reassuring, either. Jim -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 12:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oracle Corp. finds the checksum concept to be alien. They actually posted these words to me in a tar at metalink, We don't support servers that are installed via download from otn. I guess network computing really is dead. ;) On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:54:27AM -0800, Boris Dali wrote: Ray, right on target! After looking for disk errors in dmesg output, /var/log/messages to no avail, I finally uninstalled the whole 9.2 OH last night, re-downloaded/re-burned/re-... and this time installation of both 9.2.0.1 and a patch went with no glitches. Apparently Disk2 was corrupted/missing files/??? on downloading/burning/unpacking, but what surprised me the most is that I didn't get any errors at gunzip/cpio stage, which I always thought of as a good indication that software on CDs is valid. This assumption cost me week and a half of hopeless tries to make it work... On the bright side, some .o, .so etc. files I see in OUI during installation look painfully familiar... Thanks a lot for you help. --- Ray Stell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:50:52PM -0800 __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Boris Dali INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- === Ray Stell [EMAIL PROTECTED] (540) 231-4109 KE4TJC28^D -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ray Stell INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
Re: Oracle 9.2.0.1/2 on Mandrake 9
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:50:52PM -0800, Boris Dali wrote: I guess disk explanation is the most logical one to assume, but I've no idea how to confirm and overcome it. As I mentioned I re-installed it in different combinations multiple times. Would this file always go the same place on disk (say same bad sector)? not likely, and you would probably get i/o errors at other times on other files. One interesting thing I've noticed after comparing your ls -l output with mine is that all other 4 image files in this directory are dated way back to 2000 timeframe, whereas credits.gif has a time stamp of yestarday (day I tried the installation last time). I can view the file with the browser, however. What does it tell me? I'm not sure. I guess it is possible that the timestamp did not get copied yet and the failure interupted. I wonder if the cd is bad and the msg is deceiving. That would explain why it fails at the same file during each install. Maybe it isn't the write, but the associated read of the cd and OUI is being creative in the msg. Sounds like a long shot. Try to copy the cd files in some other fashion like dd. Maybe something will float to the surface. --- Ray Stell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:53:37AM -0800, Boris Dali wrote: Hope not everybody is off to OOW :( Did anybody get the above combo working? I know that I have installed Oracle 9.2.0.1 on Mandrake 9 twice on marginal machines without any such behavior. Could you have gotten an i/o error on the disk? # pwd /db03/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/wwg/admin/images [root@haglid images]# ls -l credits.gif -rw-r--r--1 oracle oinstall 181222 Jul 12 2000 credits.gif I was just about to patch them, so I am nervous about getting to 9.2.0.2, hope to do that today. === Ray Stell [EMAIL PROTECTED] (540) 231-4109 KE4TJC28^D -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ray Stell INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Boris Dali INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- === Ray Stell [EMAIL PROTECTED] (540) 231-4109 KE4TJC28^D -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ray Stell INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
Oracle 9.2.0.1/2 on Mandrake 9
Hope not everybody is off to OOW :( Did anybody get the above combo working? I know that Oracle is not certified on Mandrake and I don't care... as long as I can make it work that is Here are the facts: 1) HW: One way 2.4 GH box with 1GB DDR RAM, plenty of disk space 2) SW/OS: Mandrake 9 / 2.4.19-16mdk enterprise w/ the latest security patches applied 3) Plenty of swap (as per free, swapon -s, cat /proc/swaps) and /temp Here's `rpm -q gcc cpp glibc-devel kernel-headers binutils` output: gcc-3.2-1mdk package cpp is not installed glibc-devel-2.2.5-16mdk kernel-headres-2.4.18-41mdk binutils-2.12.90.0.15-1mdk OUI came up smoothly (had some troubles to convince it to come up with 8.1.7 on the same box - previous install, first OH). I went with Enterprise DB/SoftwareOnly option Problem: 1) at 61% on PL/SQL Embedded Gateway install error pops up: Error in writting to $OH/wwg/admin/images/credits.gif - fuser on credits.gif doesn't show that somebody is using it - deleteting it (and/or the whole $OH/wwg directory) doesn't help as OUI simply re-creates them and gets stuck on the same error message - oraInventory log doesn't add any additional info - tried to re-install it I think a dosen times by now in diff. variations (Custom/w seed DB/ etc.) with the same result - applying 9.2.0.2 patch and re-install of the same component didn't help eigther (not sure why I expected it to help, but I seemed to exaust all the other options)... Is it a bad disk sector (no idea how to check disk for bad sectors on Linux)? Is it Oracle's corrupted jar file (no idea how to find name of the jar and test it for corruptions)? 2) The above error wouldn't bother me too much (no other errors at the install phase), but I also got stuck at the relinking phase which seem to be related to the error above. The reason is that my $OH/rdbms/lib is missing config.c, opimai.o, ssoraed.o, ttcsoi.o and may be others. So cancelling/ignoring PL/SQL Embedded Gateway component (what is it anyway? Sounds like Transparent gateways to Bill/Informix/DB2 etc. to me) seem to cancel installation of some critical files needed for relinking... Coping config.c from 8.1.7.4 (different binary tree/OH, even diff OS acount) doesn't seem to help: make -f ins_rdbms.mk config fails with infamous Error 1 error. Coping config.o and the rest 3 o files missing and relinking via relink oracle or make -f ins_rdbms.mk install gets a little futher, but fails latter with the same Error 1 Reasons? Others seem to indicate 2 prime reasons: -z defs issue and binutils version: a- -z defs in LD_SELF_CONTAINED inside $OH/genclntsh doesn't seem to be an issue in my case. Oracle automatically comments it out, but even if I uncomment it and re-run genclntsh I get the same result: basename: too few arguments Try 'basename --help' cp: missing file arguments Try 'cp --help' ... Created $OH/lib/libclntst9.a So not everything is 100%, but at least I got libclntst9.a generated eigther way b- binutils? Not sure if it's still an issue in 9.2. Mine seems to be way higher than the one Oracle was ready to swallow in 9.1. I know for sure I didn't have a problem with 9.0.1 on Mandrake 8.0... Net result so far: I can confirm that Oracle Client 9.2 works like a charm on Mandrake9 :(. As far as the rest, so far I fail to get oracle, orapwd and others in my $OH/bin... Any help would be appreciated. TIA, Boris __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Boris Dali INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
Re: Oracle 9.2.0.1/2 on Mandrake 9
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:53:37AM -0800, Boris Dali wrote: Hope not everybody is off to OOW :( Did anybody get the above combo working? I know that I have installed Oracle 9.2.0.1 on Mandrake 9 twice on marginal machines without any such behavior. Could you have gotten an i/o error on the disk? # pwd /db03/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/wwg/admin/images [root@haglid images]# ls -l credits.gif -rw-r--r--1 oracle oinstall 181222 Jul 12 2000 credits.gif I was just about to patch them, so I am nervous about getting to 9.2.0.2, hope to do that today. === Ray Stell [EMAIL PROTECTED] (540) 231-4109 KE4TJC28^D -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ray Stell INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
Re: Oracle 9.2.0.1/2 on Mandrake 9
Thanks for reply, Ray. I guess disk explanation is the most logical one to assume, but I've no idea how to confirm and overcome it. As I mentioned I re-installed it in different combinations multiple times. Would this file always go the same place on disk (say same bad sector)? One interesting thing I've noticed after comparing your ls -l output with mine is that all other 4 image files in this directory are dated way back to 2000 timeframe, whereas credits.gif has a time stamp of yestarday (day I tried the installation last time). I can view the file with the browser, however. What does it tell me? --- Ray Stell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:53:37AM -0800, Boris Dali wrote: Hope not everybody is off to OOW :( Did anybody get the above combo working? I know that I have installed Oracle 9.2.0.1 on Mandrake 9 twice on marginal machines without any such behavior. Could you have gotten an i/o error on the disk? # pwd /db03/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/wwg/admin/images [root@haglid images]# ls -l credits.gif -rw-r--r--1 oracle oinstall 181222 Jul 12 2000 credits.gif I was just about to patch them, so I am nervous about getting to 9.2.0.2, hope to do that today. === Ray Stell [EMAIL PROTECTED] (540) 231-4109 KE4TJC28^D -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ray Stell INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Boris Dali INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
