oracle? need help with installation

[Asaf Maruf]

Hello

This is one of the most detailed Oracle on Linux installation guides for
some time now.

http://www.puschitz.com/OracleOnLinux.shtml


Asaf



On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Zbigniew Koziol <softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> Ok, so will have some additional comments to these letters.
>
> First, regarding why I need oracle. Sure, I like postgres, I love it,
> not like only. But sometime we are forced to use software that
> otherwise we would prefer not to use. Simply, I am in a contact with
> people from a Very Huge Company who do quite significant development
> of Oracle itself. The company is from GIS industry, which is
> attractive to me (there is shortage of of specialists in GIS
> worldwide, and I do have basic experience in that field, equired in my
> latest workplace). So, I simply want to try that opportunity as
> possible direction in my future carrier.
>
> Oracle has Oracle Spatial addition, which is largely regarded as a
> kind of standard in GIS industry. I know, postgreSQL also has GIS
> extension, which is very powerful. But thats not me who decides what
> to use.
>
> Oracle has also Map Viewer. Oh, well, I did hear that it does not work
> very well, but I am very curious how it is designed, because I
> programmed one myself working on Firefox, and there is possibly a lot
> of interesting technology around that is related to the subject.
>
> Besides all that, I am simply curios, I want to see how similar or
> different are both database servers.
>
> Yes, documentation exists to Oracle. Here is a link to one of documents:
> http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B25329_01/doc/install.102/b25144/toc.htm
>
> However, it is silly documentation. It uses language more like for
> Microsoft products. Reading that just irritates me. May be I could
> swallow it, but the point is that the documentation does not discuss
> all possible problems that may happen around.
>
> I am on Centos , 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 , so it seems that a RedHat
> version of their installation should work right away.
>
> After installation I do have  listener working (again, I had for that
> to create my own /etc/init.d script, which seems somewhat silly; why
> wouldnt they prepare one?)
>
> But I have no access to administrative web interface. And why? I have
> no idea. It simply does not start. Log files are short and contain for
> instance the following crap (what an insane path to log file!):
>
>
> /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/log/localhost/client/css.log
>
> ===============================================
> [  OCRUTL][3069580992]u_set_ocr_error: Parameter was NULL
> 2008-07-27 15:58:59.160: [  OCROSD][3069580992]utgdv:2:ocr loc file
> cannot  be opened
> 2008-07-27 15:58:59.160: [  OCROSD][3069580992]utopen:1: Couldnt find
> ocr,[ocrmirror] location in
> config file
> [  OCRUTL][3069580992]u_set_gbl_comp_error: Parameter was NULL
> 2008-07-27 15:58:59.160: [  OCRRAW][3069580992]proprinit: Could not
> open raw device
> 2008-07-27 15:58:59.160: [ default][3069580992]a_init:7!: Backend init
> unsuccessful : [33]
> [  OCRUTL][3069580992]u_set_ocr_error: Parameter was NULL
> 2008-07-27 15:58:59.160: [ CSSCLNT][3069580992]clsssinit: error(33 )
> in OCR initialization
> =========================================
>
>
> What is that OCR? No, googling did not help me much...
>
> zb.
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