11g Upgrade Issues and Questions

Hi,
I am upgrading database from 9.2.0.6 to 11g in EBS, Apps version is 11.5.10.2.
I have performed 11.1.0.7 patch set installation tasks & Apply additional 11.1.0.7 RDBMS patches
Now my query is that I have to copy InitSID.ora from 9i to 11g before or after database Upgrade(using DBUA)?
When I have to set Database Initialization Parameters for Oracle Applications Release 11i before or after database Upgrade(using DBUA)?
Regard's
GSM

Hi,
The output of utlu111i.sql script is as below before upgrade.We have to make any modification before upgrade.If yes where I have to do the changes.
SQL> @utlu111i.sql
Oracle Database 11.1 Pre-Upgrade Information Tool 04-09-2010 12:55:26
Database:
--> name: PROD
--> version: 9.2.0.8.0
--> compatible: 9.2.0
--> blocksize: 8192
--> timezone file: V4
Logfiles: [make adjustments in the current environment]
--> The existing log files are adequate. No changes are required.
Tablespaces: [make adjustments in the current environment]
--> SYSTEM tablespace is adequate for the upgrade.
.... minimum required size: 8052 MB
--> ODM tablespace is adequate for the upgrade.
.... minimum required size: 10 MB
--> APPS_UNDOTS1 tablespace is adequate for the upgrade.
.... minimum required size: 299 MB
--> APPS_TS_TX_DATA tablespace is adequate for the upgrade.
.... minimum required size: 2322 MB
--> APPS_TS_QUEUES tablespace is adequate for the upgrade.
.... minimum required size: 70 MB
--> OLAP tablespace is adequate for the upgrade.
.... minimum required size: 16 MB
Update Parameters: [Update Oracle Database 11.1 init.ora or spfile]
WARNING: --> "compatible" must be set to at least 10.1.0
Renamed Parameters: [Update Oracle Database 11.1 init.ora or spfile]
-- No renamed parameters found. No changes are required.
Obsolete/Deprecated Parameters: [Update Oracle Database 11.1 init.ora or spfile]
--> "optimizer_max_permutations"
--> "row_locking"
--> "undo_suppress_errors"
--> "max_enabled_roles"
--> "enqueue_resources"
--> "sql_trace"
--> "background_dump_dest" replaced by "diagnostic_dest"
--> "user_dump_dest" replaced by "diagnostic_dest"
--> "core_dump_dest" replaced by "diagnostic_dest"
Components: [The following database components will be upgraded or installed]
--> Oracle Catalog Views [upgrade] VALID
--> Oracle Packages and Types [upgrade] VALID
--> JServer JAVA Virtual Machine [upgrade] VALID
--> Oracle XDK for Java [upgrade] VALID
--> Real Application Clusters [upgrade] INVALID
--> OLAP Analytic Workspace [upgrade] UPGRADED
--> OLAP Catalog [upgrade] VALID
--> Oracle Text [upgrade] VALID
--> Oracle XML Database [install]
--> Oracle Java Packages [upgrade] VALID
--> Oracle interMedia [upgrade] VALID
--> Spatial [upgrade] VALID
--> Data Mining [upgrade] VALID
--> Oracle OLAP API [upgrade] UPGRADED
Miscellaneous Warnings
WARNING: --> Passwords exist in some database links.
.... Passwords will be encrypted during the upgrade.
.... Downgrade of database links with passwords is not supported.
WARNING: --> Deprecated CONNECT role granted to some user/roles.
.... CONNECT role after upgrade has only CREATE SESSION privilege.
WARNING: --> Database contains stale optimizer statistics.
.... Refer to the 11g Upgrade Guide for instructions to update
.... statistics prior to upgrading the database.
.... Component Schemas with stale statistics:
.... SYS
.... OLAPSYS
.... MDSYS
.... ODM
WARNING: --> Database contains INVALID objects prior to upgrade.
.... The list of invalid SYS/SYSTEM objects was written to
.... registry$sys_inv_objs.
.... The list of non-SYS/SYSTEM objects was written to
.... registry$nonsys_inv_objs.
.... Use utluiobj.sql after the upgrade to identify any new invalid
.... objects due to the upgrade.
.... USER APPS has 3 INVALID objects.
WARNING: --> Database contains schemas with objects dependent on network
packages.
.... Refer to the 11g Upgrade Guide for instructions to configure Network ACLs.
.... USER APPS has dependent objects.
.... USER MDSYS has dependent objects.
SYSAUX Tablespace:
[Create tablespace in the Oracle Database 11.1 environment]
--> New "SYSAUX" tablespace
.... minimum required size for database upgrade: 500 MB
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> spool off
Thank's
Regards
GSM

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In addition to the above you could also have problems with migrated cache files and/or cache files containing code that is incompatible.
If you migrate a user folder that contains any of these items, you may find that your Intel-Mac is malfunctioning. It would be wise to take care when migrating your systems from a PowerPC platform to an Intel-Mac platform to assure that you do not migrate these incompatible items.
If you have problems with applications not working, then completely uninstall said application and reinstall it from scratch. Take great care with Java applications and Java-based Peer-to-Peer applications. Many Java apps will not work on Intel-Macs as they are currently compiled. As of this time Limewire, Cabos, and Acquisition are available as universal binaries. Do not install browser plug-ins such as Flash or Shockwave from downloaded installers unless they are universal binaries. The version of OS X installed on your Intel-Mac comes with special compatible versions of Flash and Shockwave plug-ins for use with your browser.
The same problem will exist for any hardware drivers such as mouse software unless the drivers have been compiled as universal binaries. For third-party mice the current choices are USB Overdrive or SteerMouse. Contact the developer or manufacturer of your third-party mouse software to find out when a universal binary version will be available.
Also be careful with some backup utilities and third-party disk repair utilities. Disk Warrior 4.1, TechTool Pro 4.6.1, SuperDuper 2.5, and Drive Genius 2.0.2 work properly on Intel-Macs with Leopard. The same caution may apply to the many "maintenance" utilities that have not yet been converted to universal binaries. Leopard Cache Cleaner, Onyx, TinkerTool System, and Cocktail are now compatible with Leopard.
Before migrating or installing software on your Intel-Mac check MacFixit's Rosetta Compatibility Index.
Additional links that will be helpful to new Intel-Mac users:
Intel In Macs
Apple Guide to Universal Applications
MacInTouch List of Compatible Universal Binaries
MacInTouch List of Rosetta Compatible Applications
MacUpdate List of Intel-Compatible Software
Transferring data with Setup Assistant - Migration Assistant FAQ
Because Migration Assistant isn't the ideal way to migrate from PowerPC to Intel Macs, using Target Disk Mode or copying the critical contents to CD and DVD or an external hard drive will work better when moving from PowerPC to Intel Macs.
Basically the instructions you should follow are:
1. Backup your data first. This is vitally important in case you make a mistake or there's some other problem.
2. Connect a Firewire cable between your old Mac and your new Intel Mac.
3. Startup your old Mac in Target Disk Mode.
4. Startup your new Mac for the first time, go through the setup and registration screens, but do NOT migrate data over. Get to your desktop on the new Mac without migrating any new data over.
4. Copy the following items from your old Mac to the new Mac:
In your /Home/ folder: Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites folders.
In your /Home/Library/ folder:
/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
Also in /Home/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need including folders for any third-party applications)
/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Preferences/ (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
If you want cookies:
/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
For Entourage users:
Entourage is in /Home/Documents/Microsoft User Data
Also in /Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
Credit goes to another forum user for this information.
If you need to transfer data for other applications please ask the vendor or ask in the Discussions where specific applications store their data.
5. Once you have transferred what you need restart the new Mac and test to make sure the contents are there for each of the applications.
Written by Kappy with additional contributions from a brody.
Revised 3/12/2008
In the future you should post questions about the MBP in the MacBook Pro forum. This is the Mac Pro forum.
Message was edited by: Kappy

8.3.1 SVM DR - issues and questions

Hi everybody, I know that the SVM DR feature is just our with 8.3.1 RC1 but we need to test it in advance because one of our customer we're transitioning to cDOT from a consolidate and 10 years of 7Mode history! A very smart customer deeply customizing solutions, a pioneer in WFA and SnapCreator features and so on! We've tested the SVM DR feature and it roughly do what is declared on doc. But... We’re still experiencing a lot of issues related to porting what they have now to what they exptect to have... As reported it seems that it does the work that someone could expect as…basic way. But at this customer the world is a little bit more complicated (does it is the only one using that DR way with 7Mode? I don’t think so!) We need to understand how to proceed to set up this DR. Or we (better NetApp!) must officially communicate to customers that they can wast their –perfectly working for test and troubles- DR approach for it’s not possible in cDOT! Let me resume the issue.This customer, since years, doesn’t use the vFiler DR direct approach but, at the snapmirrored destination flexclone volumes are created and on this run vfiler with –d option that start from the root volume of the vfiler. I.e. (the ✓ stands for running, the X for stopped/offlined/mirrored) ✓ ✓ X ✓ ✓ Production ----sm---> DR ---flexclone---> DR_clone –vfilercreate --> vfiler in dr This permit to have a point in time instance with all the initial configurations (share/exports/MSAD domain join, users, security ecc).This also let have the choice to choose the snapshot used as starting point and, overall, this let to maintain the source-destination replicas active and updated. All of those is automated using WFA, so it’s enough a click and everything go! We’ve seen that SVM DR more ore less work as vfiler dr worked. ✓ ✓ XProduction ----sm---> DR < break of mirror relationship – a MUST > X X ✓Production ----sm---> DR We’ve also seen with some trick and maintaining the production and test network separated in different IP spaces (and ports, switches, vlan…) that we can have both running the source and the destination, but we must also break the sm relationship! ✓ X ✓Production ----sm---> DR These releationships unfortunately are essential prerequisites for this customer. Let me say vols (in SVMs) must continue to replicate for the DR test SVM could be up also for 10 and more days! And customer cannot permit the risk to loose its replicated/updated copies… The questions are: is there something like vfiler create –d? (documentation does not report anything else than “normal” usage)Something that let us create an SVM with all configurations inside but starting from cloned vols at destination snapmirrored site? We’re really in trouble for customer is starting to suspect that this cDot could be a boomerang and, except for VSAN and VVOL support for VMware 6, the things they’ve loosed are more than the one they’ve gained! Any help will be appreciated!

We have been part of the beta program for SVM-DR for a while and are now still testing it in RC1. We are huge vfiler-dr shop. If you have any need to flexclone off the DR, then svm-dr will NOT work for you since you cannot flexclone off an SVM-DR. We aren't even considering SVM-DR because identity discard/preserve methods just don't fit the bill.

Msi gt70 with some issues and questions answer asap thanks

my first issue is my ssd it is just too small how do I increase it probably a step by step link to where I can purchase and learn how to install it second of all I really need my msi burn recovery so my f3 does not work anymore, I have my drivers cd but that doesn't have it, the next issue is softwares I use when the render the use my ssd and that makes them seriously slow the need more memory space I wish I could make them use the bigger harddrive at least for the main time till I get a new one, my soft keys work except eject and wireless off all others work

Wow.....
Well, first off, try and use some periods here and there. Or a list. Something to atleast break things up in a coherent manner.
So, you want a guide on how to install another SSD. That's a pretty complex matter, judging by what I can get out of your post, your technical prowess may not be where it needs to be in order to do that.
Also, without knowing what you currently have, other than it is a GT70, it really makes it difficult to tell you what to get.
As far as your software, I'm sorry, but there really isn't any way to help you since you seem to have not made the recovery disks like you were supposed to. I would contact MSI for more information on how to proceed at this point.
After we get the above sorted, we can work on your other questions.

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Hi everyone. (Skip to the third paragraph for where my questions start, I got a little carried away in the first two, sorry!)
I installed Arch Linux for the first time around a week ago. I am now on my third install. The first time I reinstalled because I was experimenting too much with window managers, xfce4 and other desktop environments. I tried to tweak too much and couldn't boot into a graphical environment. I know I could of removed everything using pacman and re-installing the programs I liked but I wanted to start a fresh completely, had no real other reason really. All went well and my system was up and running again with GNOME (previously my go to desktop environment). However now and again my laptop wouldn't boot GRUB. It would just stop after my BIOS screen with the Acer logo.
Eventually I started tinkering with window managers and installing just the bare minimum. I really liked what I ended with and so wanted to reinstall again. This time because I was going for the bare minimum approach, had a lot of installed bloat, wanted to move to btrfs and wanted to learn a lot more about how the system works. Previously I had followed a guide and taken very little in, if I was going to be working without a desktop environment I knew I would need to be in the command line a lot and so this time I had my longest install yet, as I read everything slowly and tried to learn what I was doing. Evidently this was my only problem free install. This time I still have my GRUB problem however.
So for my first install GRUB worked fine, however on my second and third it randomly doesn't load (Picture included at the end). After having to power off by holding the power button and restarting it will then load fine. It's unresponsive to just pressing the power button and waiting or CTRL+ALT+Delete. This can happen on a reboot or when turning on after a period of down time. AFAIK I installed GRUB the same way both times. I have tried reinstalling GRUB and the problem remains.
My second question is in regards to my many installs. Is there any easy way to see programmes I have installed so I can remove what I don't need? I have tried pacman -Qe but I still get a lot of programmes that I haven't installed, I assume they are in the base, or base-devel group, so is there anyway I can not have these showing in my list of installed packages? I don't believe an --ignoregroup option exists when running a query with pacman like it does when installing and updating.
Lastly XBMC doesn't recognise my second screen, a projector, after I have enabled it with xrandr. Now I have found a workaround by looking on google, with wmctrl and have embedded the command in my open-box menu. This makes my XBMC believe it is windowed however instead of being true full screen. I was wondering whether anybody knows of an explicit solution instead of working around the problem.
Heres the link to the picture for GRUB, this is all I get after the BIOS: http://imgur.com/a/uhVgp
Please ignore the second picture, I thought my system wasn't updating but turns out the application I thought wasn't updating was in fact in Community-Testing, not Community, oops.
I'm sorry if these solutions can be found elsewhere, I really have tried looking around but don't believe I'm finding what I need. Maybe I'm searching for the wrong terms, I'm not too sure.
Thank you for any help.
EDIT: Minor edit, but wow I've been running Arch now for 2 weeks, not 1, time flies sometimes eh?
EDIT2: FINALLY got Arch to listen to my line-in, my Wii-U audio goes through my external sound card and I have never got it to work under Linux. Been trying for over a year for this to work, had to use Windows to listen to line in. That's one less reason to keep Windows. I love Arch, guess it's time for some Smash Bros and Monster Hunter 3U tonight!
Last edited by BradPJ (2013-06-05 15:34:28)

With regard to 'pacman -Qe' output: http://allanmcrae.com/2011/07/secondary … th-pacman/ or you can exclude some packages from that listing by using grep.
Sidenote: JFC, Allan, what have you done with your blog template??

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