Dbassist hanging

I want to create an 8.1.7 database on Madrake 9.1
After having closed the installer when it hung trying to run the Net8 Configuration Assistant (and not having created the database) I installed the glibc-2.1.3-stubs.tar.gz patch and ran the installer again, this time it ended successfully but without having executed neither the Net8 nor the Database Configuration Assistant.
My problem is that I can't create the database because the system hangs when I run dbassist (or netasst). I suspect it could be a problem of the jre location, as when I couldn't run the installer because I hadn't modified the oraparm.ini.
Any idea or advice?
Thanks for having read this.

Thank you Joel. You're right I am new in these tasks and I'll be very grateful for your help.
I've decided, following your advice, to create my database manually and my problems have started very soon.
I've created a file called init<my_instance>.ora in the same directory where the sample file init.ora was. I only changed the db_name from the sample file.
I modified the creation script in "Oracle8 Administrator's Guide Release 2 (8.1.6)" only changing the database name and the files location.
After some attempts I couldn't create the database but I get the following:
ERROR AT LINE 1:
ORA-01501: CREATE DATABASE failed
ORA-01100: database already mounted
ORA-01109: database not open
I don't know how to go on.

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I upgraded to the latest version of Firefox but it hangs when I use a search site such as Google or Bing. How can I fix this?

putting a search option in the search box to the right of the address bar opens up the full search window but then Firefox hangs.

Your UserAgent string in Firefox is messed up by another program that you installed, and those websites don't know you are running Firefox 3.6.3 (which is what you do have installed).
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Agent]
type '''about:config''' in the URL bar and hit Enter
''If you see the warning, you can confirm that you want to access that page.''
Filter = '''general.useragent.'''
Right-click the preferences that are '''bold''', one line at a time, and select '''''Reset''''',
Then restart Firefox

It hangs when playing games

My system is Windows 7 - 64 bit operating system
I've used Firefox for many many years and always praised it compared to EI. I am afraid I wont be able to praise it much more. It stinks. It hangs mostly when I am playing games or looking at pictures or videos. Its worse when on Facebook but also happens on other web site. I did all the troubleshooting, updates, remove old versions and re install, disable add ons all and all Its driving me insane. Can you solve the problem with a new versionof Firefox or do we have to flush the darn browser for good.
Thank you

anyone has a solution until a new version comes out?

When I boot up it hangs on the login screen for awhile, why?

I have a mid 2011 Macbook Air 13". It came with Lion but I recently updated to Mountain Lion. When I wake the laptop from sleep everything is fine. If it's been awhile since it slept (a couple of hours), the login screen hangs. What happens is that it boots like normal and looks like everything is correct, but it won't let me type in my password. After 10 seconds or so I can see a cursor come up but it won't let me type (but anything I do type at this point will later fill in the field after another 2-3 seconds or so). One other thing that's weird is that when the screen first comes up it shows the battery percentage from when I put it back on the charger, then after everything catches up, it changes to show 100%.
I hope I explained the problem well enough. Basicly a "wake from sleep" is fine if it hasn't been long since the laptop slept, but if it's been awhile it takes about 15-20 seconds to boot up.
Ideas?

Here are some suggestions based on my recent issue with unable to get Mavericks up after upgrade - The Apple geniuses just simply couldnt figure this one out...despite it being in their shop for 3 days (They probably did not look at it...and asked if they can just wipe out everything and install fresh...i had said NO):
Restart computer and hold Cmd+V when you hear chime. This will start the computer in Verbose mode.
See the messages and see where the system boot fails. In my case, it was some backtrace IOStorageFamily issue with com.paragon-software.
Google may be able to solve your Apple issues - just type the error message in and see if you get any useful suggestions. in most cases - this would be some faulty 3rd party drivers.....
In my case, it was something stupid i had probably installed....I had to boot to safe mode (Hold Shift at boot chime) - open Terminal, delete the folder com.paragon-software.kext from System/Library/Extensions....that fixed the problem. Mavericks is working great now....
Let me know if your debugging thing works...

Firefox hangs on opening requiring force quit I have snow leopard mac It hangs when I try safe mode. I need to know how to remove all traces of firefox on my mac so I can reinstall. I have tried terminal as advised on firefox webpage. Please advise m

Firefox hangs on opening requiring force quit I have snow leopard Mac It even hangs when I try safe mode. I need to know how to remove all traces of firefox on my mac so I can reinstall. I have tried terminal as advised on firefox webpage. Please advise me
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== I tried to update firefox add-ons ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.22.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Safari/531.22.7

Try a new profile. See [[Recovering important data from an old profile]]

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