Gaurav gauravpd@gmail.com
v1.0-pre1,
This tutorial describes how to install Oracle 9i on Fedora Core 3 (or greater)
Table of Contents
Oracle 9i under Fedora Core 3 - Installation How to 1
1. Introduction 2
1.1 Acknowledgments 3
1.2 Revision History 3
1.3 New versions of this document 3
1.4 Feedback 3
1.5 Distribution Policy 3
2. Get Oracle 9i 5
2.1 CD Installation 5
2.2 Download 5
3. Create users and Directories 5
3.1 Create users and groups 5
3.2 Create the directories 5
4. Set Environmental variables 6
4.1 Edit .bash_profile 6
5. Set Kernel Parameters 7
5.1 Edit /etc/sysctl.conf 7
5.2 Edit /etc/security/limits.conf 7
6. Install GCC 2.9 Compat libraries 7
6.1 Install GCC 2.96 Compat packages 7
6.2 Create symbolic links 8
7. Run Installer 8
7.1 Apply libwait.c patch 8
7.2 Export Display variable 9
7.3 Finally Run the Installation 9
7.4 Fix nodeinfo 9
7. Startup script 10
Miscellaneous Errors 11
This tutorial was written due to my frustration on installing Oracle 9i on FC3. Basically 9i installation on RAS 1,2,3 RH 9, fc1, fc 2 is documented fairly well but its hard to find anything worth while on FC3 , some people even suggested installing Oracle 9i on FC3 is not possible !! . This How to attempts to condense all my experience /findings with any such info peculiar to FC3 which scattered all over web in to one concise but useful Doc.
I hope you might find this short tutorial useful
If you need to install Oracle 9i on FC3 than you must know/ look at following fact
Fedora is not *Officially Supported* by Oracle Corp
Oracle 9i installation is difficult but possible in FC3
Oracle 9i CANNOT be linked with the libraries used by gcc 3.4 Under FC3, you need to use, (its only possible thru Fc2 compat library)
Oracle 10 G installation method does NOT WORKS with 9i
This How to deals with Red hat products >= f3 or higher or gcc version greater than 2.9 other wise if you are installing any other Redhat product you might want look at other exellent tutorials at (http://www.puschitz.com/OracleOnLinux.shtml , http://oracle-base.com/ )
also
This howto is aim to assist you only ...there is NOTHING OFFICIAL about !! so i am not responsible if
I am not a DBA ..so do not mail me Help pl!! types mail (a better place would be Oracle forums ) , but any suggestion or improvement in How to is appreciated
Next probable step for me is to write some bash or Perl scripts to fully automate this tideous and boring , frustrating, manual process but that depends on spare time I get , your inputs are welcome :-)
I would like to thank Jean Francois for helping me out on most tricky part
Version 1.0-pre1 – March 25, 2005.
Version 1.1 -April 1,2005 added miscellaneous errors section
The latest version can be found at http://www.pagux.com/oracle9ionfedora3.html
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Copyright 2005/2006 Gaurav Prasad
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If you got Oracle 9i CD then mount it
mkisofs -r -o ora9id1.iso Disk1/,loop=/dev/loop0 cd_image mount_dir
Otherwise download it from
otn.oracle.com/software/products/ oracle9i/htdocs/linuxsoft.html ( You will need to following)
Extract all three files as
gunzip ship_9204_linux_disk1.cpio
cpio -idmv -I ship_9204_linux_disk1.cpio (Dont forget -I option other wise it give error during extraction )
This will expand to folder Disk1 (Repeat the process other two files)
groupadd oinstall groupadd dba groupadd oper groupadd apache useradd -g oinstall -G dba oracle passwd oracle
in which the Oracle software will be installed:
mkdir /u01 /u02
chown oracle.dba /u01 /u02
chmod 755 /u01 /u02
Log as oracle user
su – oracle
Edit .bash_profile
vim .bash_profile add following
############################################################################ ############################ Oracle Variables###################################### echo " Wel come to oracle"; ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle ORACLE_OWNER=oracle; export ORACLE_OWNER ORACLE_TERM=xterm; export ORACLE_TERM ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0 ORACLE_SID=ORTD LD_PRELOAD=$HOME/libcwait.so export DISPLAY=172.28.66.39:0.0 PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$ORACLE_HOME/network/lib CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/JRE:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib; export CLASSPATH LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1; export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL THREADS_FLAG=native; export THREADS_FLAG TMP=/tmp; export TMP TMPDIR=$TMP; export TMPDIR export PATH ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_SID LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_PRELOAD ###############################Oracle##################################
Add following lines can be added to the /etc/sysctl.conf file:
kernel.shmmax = 2147483648 kernel.shmmni = 128 kernel.shmall = 2097152 kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128 fs.file-max = 65536 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
In addition the following lines can be added to the /etc/security/limits.conf file:
oracle soft nofile 65536 oracle hard nofile 65536 oracle soft nproc 16384 oracle hard nproc 16384
Adding lines into these files requires a reboot before they take effect.
From Fedora Core TWO (note if newer FC3 packages are installed use rpm -i –force )
compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96 compat-libstdc++-devel-7.3-2.96 compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.118.i386.rpm compat-gcc-c++-7.3-2.96
From Fedora Core THREE
compat-db
If don't install GCC compat libraries as above you get zillion linking error
Put gcc296 and g++296 first in $PATH variable by creating the following symbolic links:
mv /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcc323 mv /usr/bin/g++ /usr/bin/g++323 ln -s /usr/bin/gcc296 /usr/bin/gcc ln -s /usr/bin/g++296 /usr/bin/g++
Before you run installer you do following to over come some weird errors
Complie libwait.c (in /home/oracle)
Save this as libcwait.c and do as explained in the
comment:
/* Compile with
gcc -shared -o libcwait.so
libcwait.c -fpic -O
and use it by adding
LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libcwait.so
in the environment of
the application with the bug.
*/
#include
<errno.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
pid_t
__libc_wait
(int *status)
{
int res;
asm volatile ("pushl
%%ebx\n\t"
"movl %2, %%ebx\n\t"
"movl %1,
%%eax\n\t"
"int $0x80\n\t"
"popl %%ebx"
:
"=a" (res)
: "i" (__NR_wait4), "0"
(WAIT_ANY), "c" (status), "d" (0),
"S"
(0));
return res;
}
Compile gcc -shared -o libcwait.so libcwait.c -fpic -O
Then do
export LD_PRELOAD=/home/oracle/libcwait.so
xhost +localhost
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
if above doest work take vnc connection to server and
run installation (su – oracle and the vncserver to start
vncserver)
7.3 Finally Run the Installation
/path/to/oracle/Disk1/runInstaller
Now carry with Graphical setup (if you are not sure choose Standard database )...from here its really easy
Now installation should proceed without any linking errors but you will get one error in end
Parameter "nodeinfo" = NO_VALUE Agent Service Failed
For do this after setup
netca & (this run wizard)
cd $ORACLE_HOME and run ./lsnrctl start
check if its running $ ps afx | grep LISTEN | grep -v grep
You have to write startup a script so that oracle can automatically be started as reboot and easily control service using service command
create a start up a start script as following
vim /etc/init.d/oracle
add following to it
#!/bin/bash # # Run-level Startup script for the Oracle Instance and Listener # # chkconfig: 345 91 19 # description: Startup/Shutdown Oracle listener and instance ORA_HOME="/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0" ORA_OWNR="oracle" # if the executables do not exist -- display error if [ ! -f $ORA_HOME/bin/dbstart -o ! -d $ORA_HOME ] then echo "Oracle startup: cannot start" exit 1 fi # depending on parameter -- startup, shutdown, restart # of the instance and listener or usage display case "$1" in start) # Setting up kernel parameters #echo 100 32000 100 100 > /proc/sys/kernel/sem #echo 2147483648 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax #echo 4096 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni #echo 2097152 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmall #echo 65536 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max #ulimit -n 65536 #echo 1024 65000 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range #ulimit -u 16384 # Oracle listener and instance startup echo -n "Starting Oracle: " su - $ORA_OWNR -c "$ORA_HOME/bin/lsnrctl start" su - $ORA_OWNR -c $ORA_HOME/bin/dbstart touch /var/lock/subsys/oracle echo "OK" ;; stop) # Oracle listener and instance shutdown echo -n "Shutdown Oracle: " su - $ORA_OWNR -c "$ORA_HOME/bin/lsnrctl stop" su - $ORA_OWNR -c $ORA_HOME/bin/dbshut rm -f /var/lock/subsys/oracle echo "OK" ;; reload|restart) $0 stop $0 start ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 start|stop|restart|reload" exit 1 esac exit 0
Now run command chkconfig oracle (this will create init scripts)
now service oracle start|stop|restart should work
ERROR:
ORA-01034:
ORACLE not available
ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not
exist
Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory
This
error happens when you reboot and try to login ... you will get lot
of errors as database instance is not mounted/started automatically
Step 1
In /etc/oratab If you have:
*:/opt/oracle/OraHome1:N
ordb:/opt/oracle/OraHome1:N
edit
it to *:/opt/oracle/OraHome1:Y
ordb:/opt/oracle/OraHome1:Y
here N means No and Y means Yes ....so you basically asking
database to start automatically when you reboot or stop service
Step
2
after that try to initialize database
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbstart
if you get error
No
start entry for SID * at /opt/oracle/OraHome1 in /etc/oratab
this might be due a bug in dbstart script looking at sid file
wrong place
then ->
cp
$ORACLE_BASE/admin/$ORACLE_SID/pfile/init_*.ora
$ORACLE_HOME/dbs/init$ORACLE_SID.ora
and
$ sqlplus '/
as sysdba'
SQL> create pfile from spfile;
SQL> exit
run the db start script
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbstart
if you reached this state
with any errors the Congrats !! Relax :-) ...Go have a cup of coffee
or call your girl friend