Troubles with install of XE

Question

Greeting,
I should start out saying I am quite new to Oracle and have never installed a DBMS, of any type, previously. That said, I have installed, so of, 10g XE in Ubantu 10.04. Sort of because nothing actually seems to work.
1. Using Firefox to access the database home page will not. I've tried 12.0.0.1:8080/apex and localhost:8080/apex and both get can't connect errors. A proxy server is not used on my network and checking the connection options it appears to be set up the way it should.
2. When I try to start the database from the command line (sqlplus / as sysdba; startup) the following results:
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 100663296 bytes
Fixed Size 1257380 bytes
Variable Size 92274780 bytes
Database Buffers 4194304 bytes
Redo Buffers 2936832 bytes
ORA-00205: error in identifying control file, check alert log for more info
Looking for the control files,
SQL> SHOW PARAMETERS control_files
NAME TYPE
VALUE
control_files string
/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/
product/10.2.0/server/dbs/ora_
control1, /usr/lib/oracle/xe/a
pp/oracle/product/10.2.0/serve
r/dbs/ora_control2
These files do not exist and a search of the extant directories for "ora_control" finds nothing remotel similar.
I looked into creating the control files but after looking at the syntax I have no idea what to use for the various parameters.
Any thoughts on how to resolve these issues greatly appreciated...

Answer 1

All the installation experts out there, Is 10g Xe supported on Centos 5.2 (a variant of redhat)?
I have several problems in the installation. Any help is appreciated.
1. installation log seems to have errors in it, but all directories/files seemed to be copied correctly. Here is the output of
rpm -ivh oracle-xe-univ-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm > install.log 2>&1
cat install.logcat install.log
Preparing... ##################################################
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.15157: line 89: bc: command not found
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.15157: line 90: bc: command not found
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.15157: line 95: bc: command not found
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.15157: line 96: test: !=: unary operator expected
oracle-xe-univ ##################################################
Executing Post-install steps...
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.88744: line 37: bc: command not found
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.88744: line 38: bc: command not found
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.88744: line 39: bc: command not found
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.88744: line 40: bc: command not found
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.88744: line 41: bc: command not found
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.88744: line 42: bc: command not found
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.88744: line 43: bc: command not found
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.88744: line 44: bc: command not found
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.88744: line 45: test: !=: unary operator expected
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.88744: line 50: bc: command not found
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.88744: line 51: test: !=: unary operator expected
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.88744: line 56: bc: command not found
You must run '/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure' as the root user to
configure the database.
2. Next, I ran ' /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure' command. No errors were reported. However, there were log files in the $ORACLE_HOME/config/log directory.
# ls -ltotal 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 1758 Oct 12 04:43 cloneDBCreation.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 398 Oct 12 04:43 CloneRmanRestore.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 988 Oct 12 04:43 postDBCreation.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 569 Oct 12 04:43 postScripts.log
A sample of contents is as follows;
# cat cloneDBCreation.log
Create controlfile reuse set database "XE"
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
BEGIN dbms_backup_restore.zerodbid(0); END;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist
Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory
LRM-00116: syntax error at 'audit_file_dest' following '='
ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
Create controlfile reuse set database "XE"
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
alter system enable restricted session
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
alter database "XE" open resetlogs
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
alter database rename global_name to "XE"
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
alter system switch logfile
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
alter system checkpoint
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
alter database drop logfile group 3
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
ALTER TABLESPACE TEMP ADD TEMPFILE '/usr/lib/oracle/xe/oradata/XE/temp.dbf' SIZE 20480K REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 640K MAXSIZE UNLIMITED
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
select tablespace_name from dba_tablespaces where tablespace_name='USERS'
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
select sid, program, serial#, username from v$session
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
alter user sys identified by "oracle"
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
alter user system identified by "oracle"
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
alter system disable restricted session
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
[root@localhost log]#
3. Then, when I try to start the database manually and check its status.
# /etc/init.d/oracle-xe start
Starting Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Instance.
[root@localhost log]# /etc/init.d/oracle-xe status
LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on 12-OCT-2010 05:37:03
Copyright (c) 1991, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=IPC)(KEY=EXTPROC_FOR_XE)))
STATUS of the LISTENER
Alias LISTENER
Version TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
Start Date 12-OCT-2010 04:43:36
Uptime 0 days 0 hr. 53 min. 27 sec
Trace Level off
Security ON: Local OS Authentication
SNMP OFF
Default Service XE
Listener Parameter File /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/network/admin/listener.ora
Listener Log File /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/network/log/listener.log
Listening Endpoints Summary...
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(KEY=EXTPROC_FOR_XE)))
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=localhost.localdomain)(PORT=1521)))
Services Summary...
Service "PLSExtProc" has 1 instance(s).
Instance "PLSExtProc", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
The command completed successfully
[root@localhost log]#
Again, no error reported, but clearly database not started.
4. I also cannot access Database home page. Output of lnsrctl is :
lsnrctl status
LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on 12-OCT-2010 05:39:55
Copyright (c) 1991, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=IPC)(KEY=EXTPROC_FOR_XE)))
STATUS of the LISTENER
Alias LISTENER
Version TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
Start Date 12-OCT-2010 04:43:36
Uptime 0 days 0 hr. 56 min. 18 sec
Trace Level off
Security ON: Local OS Authentication
SNMP OFF
Default Service XE
Listener Parameter File /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/network/admin/listener.ora
Listener Log File /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/network/log/listener.log
Listening Endpoints Summary...
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(KEY=EXTPROC_FOR_XE)))
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=localhost.localdomain)(PORT=1521)))
Services Summary...
Service "PLSExtProc" has 1 instance(s).
Instance "PLSExtProc", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
The command completed successfully
[root@localhost log]#