New Oracle Home

Hi,
During installing Oracle Software, i got some error and aborted midway.
Again, when i restart, the system check fails with below error.
I don't want to choose a new home. I want to reused the same home given during the failed installation.
I guess it is reading from the inventory. But, since i have CRS installed and have common inventory, i dont want to delete the inventory.
How can i tackle this prolem ?
Checking for Oracle Home incompatibilities ....
Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Failed <<<<
Problem: Oracle Database 10g Release 2 can only be installed in a new Oracle Home
Recommendation: Choose a new Oracle Home for installing this product.
========================================================

I am assuming that you are pointing the new Oracle_home for Oracle10gR2 to a different location than your CRS. Try using the DEINSTALL option of the Installer to clean up the failed install and retry your install. Make sure you select the failed Oracle_home to deinstall.
Thanks
-Chandra

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FYI,
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=================================================
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Red Hat Linux 5
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hariharan.thyagarajan wrote:
Hi,
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Hai.......
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must share
my thoughts on the new Oracle installer with everybody.
I hate the new installer. I used to run the installer from
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because it
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a little too
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the way to
the office because I did not have sufficient bandwidth to display
the darn
ringing bell animated image. This is strictly the mentality of
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to install
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not have
enough space.
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points /u01 /u02
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[email protected]
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patches or updates applied) and followed the OIG and release
notes to the letter. Clearly, no one at Oracle did the same,
because there are many problems during install. I finally got a
simple database running, but there are some real gotcha's along
the way.
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machines,
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have
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: the way to
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display
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: ringing bell animated image. This is strictly the mentality of
: Windows users
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: line 118 in my install log file at :
: /usr/local/oracle/u01/app/oracle/oraInventory/logs/installActio
ns.log
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: users are a little too sensitive to these kind of mistakes. :)
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: from Windows
: programmers. Who are not too familiar with the idea of being
: able to send
: their video display to any computer around the world and work
: from there.
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routines
: of Oracle
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: Typical, Minimal and Custom.
: Somehow Minimal takes more disk space (642 MB) compared to
: Typical (585 MB).
: Well that is what the installation screen says. I have not
tried
: to install
: using the minimal install.
: 3. The installation cant figure out how much free space is
: available on the /
: partition. Is it that hard? Its gives warnings about how I
may
: not have
: enough space.
: 4. dbassist cant find the cdrom if you try to install the
default
: database
: from CDROM. It says cannot find CDROM even if you have all
your
: stuff under
: /mnt/cdrom
: 5. The docs talk about software mount points and data mount
: points /u01 /u02
: /u03 and /u04 that I created, but I could not find anywhere to
: specify them
: like I was able to, with the last release.
: 6. "Oracle Protocol Support" section during the install shows
no
: options at
: all. What happened to good ole Net8?
: And many others. This product is a joke.
: Atif.
: [email protected]
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Using patch plans for 12.1.0.2 target oracle home fails with 'PREREQ_MESG: Unable to get the version of OPatch'

We are attempting to use patch plan to apply PSU and one-offs to a new 12.1.0.2 database oracle home. Our EM version is 12.1.0.4.
We are experiencing the same issue described in ''Bug 20271609 : Unable to get the version of OPatch". This bug is closed as 'duplicate bug to filer' but we do not appear to have visibility into what patch/bug fixes the issue.
Description from the above mentioned bug is our same issue. We do not have this issue when we use patch plans against an 11.2.x oracle_home target. It is unique to 12.1.0.2 oracle_home target.
Description from the bug:
The Plan failed in step "Run Prerequisite Checks" with the following errors:
PREREQ_NAME: Minimum Version of OPatch
PREREQ_DESC: Check if the required version of OPatch is present on the target
PREREQ_TYPE: PATCH_TOOL_CHECK
PREREQ_STATUS: FAILED
PREREQ_MESG: Unable to get the version of OPatch at
/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_2/Opatch
We have opened an SR to see if we can get more info on what was already identified as a bug. Has anyone else experienced this issue? If so, can you share any patches or workarounds (other than manually applying patches) that you found useful?
Thanks.

You'll probably get the same info from Support, but the workaround is to use the Patch Database (however that doesn't work if there's no DB target associated to that home). If you were trying to do patchign out of place (clone home, patch, then move db's), EM can do this for you. If you're just installing a new DB Home and trying to patch, then i don' think there's another workaround. The base bug is marked fixed though, so a backport for the 12.1.0.6 plugin should be available very soon. I would ask the support analyst to request the backport for your plugin/patch level...

New Oracle ADF Application.

Hi
I installed wls1035_oepe111172_win32.exe on my local machine in new directory.
Next I created base_domain and admin console works OK. WebLogic Server Version: 10.3.5.0
In “Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse” I try to create New -> Oracle ADF Application.
During this process I had to create “New Runtime”.
After this I received message :
” Target runtime is not valid; must be WLS 11gR1 PS3 (or greater) with ADF extension.”
Separately I installed ADF and result is the same.
I am afraid that in wls1035_oepe111172_win32.exe installation “Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse” doesn’t recognize that WebLogic Server Version: 10.3.5.0 is greater than WLS 11gR1 PS3.
How I can solve this problem?
Is this my fault or instalation inconsistence ?
Please help.

Hi,
I just realized that the installer you were referring to is not the same as the one I used in my test.
The error message you are seeing is due to the fact that the Application Development Runtime is not installed as part of the wls1035_oepe111172_win32.exe.
In order to workaround the issue please download the 11.1.1.5 Application Development Runtime from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/adf/downloads/index.html and install into the wls home where you installed wls1035_oepe111172_win32.exe.
Once this is complete, you should be able to create an ADF application without any issues.
Thanks
Raj

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