HOW I WAS ABLE TO GET ORACLE/LINUX RUNNING

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Just like some (or should I say most) of you, it took me pains
(one week at that) to get 8i EE running on Linux.
Here is how I was able to get it up and running:
Environment:
* RedHat 6.0
* Linux kernel 2.2.12
* Blackdown JRE (not JDK) 1.1.6v5
* Mem: 128MB
Create the linux account 'oracle' and make the account a member
of the 'dba' group. The 8i docs contradicts itself saying that
'oracle' should be a member of the 'oinstall' group in one place,
but later on says that 'oracle' should be a member of the 'dba'
group in other places. (In the 8.0.5 installation, 'oracle' is a
member of the 'dba' group, so just follow this tradition).
I have 2 linux machines. Because the machine where I am
installing 8i has several other purposes, I ran X on another
machine and have the OUI display on that other machine, but the
OUI ran on the machine where I installed 8i.
From the host running X, I set "xhost +182.212.1.32" (this is
the IP address of the host where I am installing 8i), telnetted
to the host where 8i will be installed, logged in as 'oracle',
did a 'su', mounted the CDROM, exited from root (thereby going
back to the oracle account), did a "DISPLAY=182.212.1.200:0.0;
export DISPLAY", "cd /mnt/cdrom", and then did ran the installer
"./runInstaller".
If you did not make 'oracle' a member of 'dba', OUI will say "You
are not a member of the 'dba' group.... blah ...." and will ask
you the linux group for OSDBA and OSOPER.
If you DID make 'oracle' a member of the 'dba' group, you will
not get this prompt at all, and you will be asked to specify the
linux group that will be responsible for installing/upgrading
oracle. Specify the group 'oinstall' in this prompt. Basically,
this prompt will 'chgrp oinstall' the directory
'$ORACLE_BASE/oraInventory'.
Cotinue with the installation. You will be prompted to run a
script under the /tmp/oracle/oraInstroot.sh directory as root.
Continuing, I specifed a custom install. After almost completing
the installation, you will be prompted to run the 'root.sh' under
$ORACLE_HOME as root. Note that this script is not executable, so
either "chmod 744 root.sh;./root.sh" or "sh ./root.sh".
At this point, db config assistant will run, but gave me an
exception, something like "JNLSException: No character sets
found." This error was not fatal as it did allowed me to
continue. (Note that I tried setting ORA_NLS33 and NLS_LANG, but
I still had this exception. However, I have not tried downloading
i18n-1.1.6-v5-glibc-x86.tar.bz2 from blackdown. But I do not know
if that will help.). I did not continue with dbassist but exited,
and exited OUI. The reason was that, after telling dbassist to
save to scripts, it cannot even save the scripts!!
Now run dbassist again ("cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin; ./dbassit"). You
will again get the message "JNSLException: No characters found".
I specified an OLTP database. Later on, you will be asked if you
want to use shared server processes (MTS) or dedicated server
processes. At this point, specify dedicated server processes.
(Note: this is important. More on this later).
The SYSTEM datafile need not be initially 175MB. I had mine set
to 75MB.
When prompted if you want to create the db now or save to
scripts, specify save to scripts, and exit dbassist.
Now "cd $ORACLE_HOME/install". The main script (which is
sqlSID.sh --- replace SID with the value of ORACLE_SID), will
simply run other scripts.
Instead of running the main script, run each of the scripts
(that the main scripts was supposed to call) manually in the
order specified by the main scripts. This will help you later on
point out the specific script which may have problems.
The first script will start the instance and create the
database.
Run that first script.
Now here lies the importance of specifying "dedicated server
processes" instead of "shared server processes". If you specified
"dedicated server processes", the db should now be created, and
the script will exit without errors. If you specified "shared
server processes (MTS)", the instance will be mounted but you
will get the message "ORA-01012: not logged on". The db will
therefore not be created. I believe the following quote from the
docs (not included with the linux 8i EE CD, but included
witht he nt 8i EE CD) says it all:
=================================================================
===========
Restricted Operations of the Multi-Threaded Server
Certain administrative activities cannot be performed while
connected to a
dispatcher process, including shutting down or starting an
instance and
media recovery. An error message is issued if you attempt to
perform these
activities while connected to a dispatcher process.
These activities are typically performed when connected with
administrator
privileges. When you want to connect with administrator
privileges in a
system configured with multi-threaded servers, you must state in
your connect
string that you want to use a dedicated server process
(SRVR=DEDICATED) instead of a dispatcher process.
Additional Information:
See your Oracle operating-system-specific
documentation or the Net8
Administrator's Guide for the proper connect
string syntax.
=================================================================
=========
From the above, you should be able to create a db using "shared
server processes (MTS)" from scratch (instead of creating a db
using "dedicated server process" and then later on changing to
MTS), by modifying your tnsnames.ora file. However, I have not
done this.
Now run the remaining scripts that the main script was supposed
to call. The only other problem I had with the scripts was the
last script (the one with SIDjava.sh). I had a problem with the
redo logs, and I got an "end of communication error" in the
middle of the execution of the last script. I have to run this
last script twice to make sure it worked.
I believe the reason for the problem with the last script was
related to what I found out later on, that all the rollback
segments were OFFLINE (except that rbs in SYSTEM)!!!
So probably it is best that, after running the first script, take
the rollback segments online, before continuing with the other
scripts.
After running the scripts and the database created, I then
applied te 8.1.5.0.1 patch, shutting down the database first.
(Run svrmgrl, connect internal, shutdown;)
However, after applying the patch, and starting the database
again, I still get 8.1.5.0.0 and not 8.1.5.0.1 when loggin
in using sqlplus or svrmgrl. Maybe the patch should be applied
first BEFORE creating the db???
Okay, now I have it running for 3 days now. However, I get this
error in my alert files:
OER 536879337 in Load Indicator : Error Code = 570716328 !
... when the instance is mounted, and
Load Indicator not supported by OS
.... several times.
I have not been able to solve these remaining issues.
John Salvo
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Answer 1

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