RE: [suse-oracle] Installed 9i on 8.0 Not quite useable... yet pleaseadvise

From: Alexandre Gorbatchev (alexandre.gorbatchev@avermann.de)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 09:00:59 CEST

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    From: "Alexandre Gorbatchev" <alexandre.gorbatchev@avermann.de>
    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 09:00:59 +0200
    Message-ID: <AKEBIHJFGKLHLMGPOKKLIECGCCAA.alexandre.gorbatchev@avermann.de>
    Subject: RE: [suse-oracle] Installed 9i on 8.0 Not quite useable... yet   pleaseadvise
    

    Rob,

    You messed up pretty much here. DO follow instructions precisely if you
    don't know how it works. You should read Oracle Installation Guide for Linux
    and Release Notes. If it's not enough read Oracle Installation Guide for
    UNIX - it's more detailed. These give you a sence of what instructions and
    why you are following in the guide from suse.com.

    Now comments:
    SHMMAX should be set every time you reboot, so if you reboot after that -
    it's lost. :) orarun9i is installed to be run everytime you reboot, so
    install it and reboot. To check if you have it installed run as root: rpm -q
    orarun9i - it shows you version installed (you probably have it installed if
    you followed installation tips from suse).

    take a look at your boot messages in /var/log/boot.msg. You should find:

    ----
    Setting kernel parameters for Oracle from /etc/rc.config.d/oracle.rc.config.
    See file /etc/rc.config.d/oracle.rc.config for explanations.
    Shared memory
      SHMMAX: 2147483647
      SHMMNI: 4096
      SHMALL: 2097152
    Semaphore values
      SEMMSL: 250
      SEMMNS: 32000
      SEMOPM: 100
      SEMMNI: 256
    Kernel parameters are set for Oracle.done
    ----
    Have it? you are fine then.
    Also your SGA is very small: 40Mb. That's why dbca could stop on 46% - your
    Oracle instance ran out of memory. And you have 200Kb database buffer
    size??? That's _VERY_VERY_ small.
    

    Advise - run dbca again. If it didn't finish properly, you will never have DB running witout problem anyway. In dbca choose one of standard starter databases and dont change anything - it will use precreated files for databse. Note: before running dbca do "export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0" and don't forget you should run it as "oracle" user.

    Good luck, Alexandre

    -----Original Message----- From: rob [mailto:robert73@attbi.com] Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 2:15 AM To: Bennett Leve Cc: suse-oracle@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-oracle] Installed 9i on 8.0 Not quite useable... yet pleaseadvise

    HI!

    >As root: > > # echo 419430400 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax >

    DONE

    >Just add the following after the last "#": > > # Increase SHMMAX for oracle -- rob:/10_06_2002 > echo 419430400 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax > >

    DONE

    Ok I made the changes and even rebooted, somehow I suspect adding the memory to the kernel did not "take" because the memory still shows up in free

    Nicole:~ # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 513496 226936 286560 0 24300 117088 -/+ buffers/cache: 85548 427948 Swap: 1028120 0 1028120

    ########################################################## here is boot.local Nicole:/etc/init.d # cat boot.local #! /bin/sh # # Copyright (c) 2002 SuSE Linux AG Nuernberg, Germany. All rights reserved. # # Author: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>, 1996 # Burchard Steinbild <feedback@suse.de>, 1996 # # /etc/init.d/boot.local # # script with local commands to be executed from init on system startup # . /etc/rc.config # # Here you should add things, that should happen directly after booting # before we're going to the first run level. # echo 419430400 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax # # above adds 400meg of ram to the kernal for oracle added on oct 5 2002 by rob; ##########################################################

    here is my sql session

    oracle@Nicole:~> sqlplus '/ as sysdba'

    SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on Sun Oct 6 16:49:56 2002

    Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.

    Connected to an idle instance.

    SQL> startup nomount pfile=/work/9ihome/dbs/init.ora ORACLE instance started.

    Total System Global Area 42741800 bytes Fixed Size 450600 bytes Variable Size 41943040 bytes Database Buffers 204800 bytes Redo Buffers 143360 bytes SQL> shutdown immediate ORA-01507: database not mounted

    ORACLE instance shut down. SQL> exit Disconnected from Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production

    With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options JServer Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production

    keep in mind I dont beleive the db never actually got built I have empty admin and oradata directories... ##########################################################

    oracle@Nicole:~> dbca Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified

    java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError

    #############################################################

    So it looks like dbca cant run... ;-(

    I have a high end system running 1024x786 in n million colors so i dont thing its an obivious display issue

    > > #############################################################

    Further down the road....

    SQL> startup nomount pfile=/work/9ihome/dbs/init.ora ORACLE instance started.

    Total System Global Area 42741800 bytes Fixed Size 450600 bytes Variable Size 41943040 bytes Database Buffers 204800 bytes Redo Buffers 143360 bytes

    SQL> exit Disconnected from Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options JServer Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production

    oracle@Nicole:~> lsnrctl reload

    LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on 06-OCT-2002 17:09:48

    Copyright (c) 1991, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.

    Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=IPC)(KEY=EXTPROC))) TNS-12541: TNS:no listener TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error TNS-00511: No listener Linux Error: 111: Connection refused Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=Nicole.local)(PORT=1521))) TNS-12541: TNS:no listener TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error TNS-00511: No listener Linux Error: 111: Connection refused ########################################################

    oracle@Nicole:~> cat /work/9ihome/network/admin/tnsnames.ora

    # TNSNAMES.ORA Network Configuration File: /work/9ihome/network/admin/tnsnames.ora # Generated by Oracle configuration tools.

    EXTPROC_CONNECTION_DATA.LOCAL = (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS_LIST = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC)) ) (CONNECT_DATA = (SID = PLSExtProc) (PRESENTATION = RO) ) )

    so there isnt a db in tnsnames.....

    rob -- "The New York Times is read by the people who run the country. The Washington Post is read by the people who think they run the country. The National Enquirer is read by the people who think Elvis is alive and running the country ..." -- Robert J Woodhead

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