Wfload erroring out (workflow, standalone, on 10r2 database on linux)

Question

I'm having problems installing workflow workflow 10.1.0.3 on my Ubuntu linux
box, that is running an oracle 10 release 2 database.
The Workflow configuration agent (that is started via this script:
$ORACLE_HOME/wf/install/wfinstall.csh), claims that everything is
fine ("WorkflowCA: Workflow Configuration has completed successfully."),
but looking at the workflow log file reveals following errors when wfload
is invoked:
WFLDR_LEVEL_LOG MODE=UPLOAD LEVEL=100
wferr:
- WFLOAD_LANG_NOT_SET
- WFUPI_FAIL MESSAGE=ORA-01041: internal error. hostdef extension doesn't exist
STATEMENT=SELECT NLS_LANGUAGE FROM WF_LANGUAGES WHERE :l IN (NLS_LANGUAGE, CODE)
Has anybody else experienced the same problem ?
One thought:
I've configured the database language and region as AMERICAN but with
character set WE8ISO9959P1 (so not the default US7ASCII), and I've
experimented with different settings for NLS_LANG, NLS_LANGUAGE,..
but to no avail.
Another thought:
Is this due to the fact that it is workflow 10r1 talking to a 10r2 database ?
(ie. should I install a 10r1 database ?)
Any idea?
Regards,
Willem

Answer 1

I have very limited idea about the charsets. With whatever I know..
You can install your database with whatever charset that you want as long as the data that you are storing in the database can be stored in that charset. I am sure US7ASCII is a sub-set of WE8ISO9959P1 and all characters in US7ASCII are supported in WE8ISO9959P1 charset.
Also, the entries in WF_LANGUAGES are only suggested character sets for data represented in that language. So the whole setup seems valid to me and the error seems to be from somewhere else.
SR with Oracle support might help.
Thanks
Vijay