Installing Oracle Database 10g Release 1 and 2 (32-bit/64-bit) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4, 3, 2.1, Red Hat Fedora Core 4, 3, 1, RH 9 on x86 and x86-64 (AMD64/EM64T) Architecture

Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

  Checking installer requirements...

  Checking operating system version: must be redhat-2.1, UnitedLinux-1.0 or redhat-3
                                        Failed <<<<

  Exiting Oracle Universal Installer, log for this session can be found at ...

Checking for gcc-2.96; found Not found. Failed <<<<

See Checking Software Packages (RPMs) for more information.

Note that "Retry" in the "Product-specific Prerequisite Checks" window does not work. So you either set it manually to Passed or you restart OUI.

Checking for openmotif-2.1.30-11; found Not found.      Failed <<

See Checking Software Packages (RPMs) for more information.

Note that "Retry" in the "Product-specific Prerequisite Checks" window does not work. So you either set it manually to Passed or you restart OUI.

Checking for shmmax=2147483648; found shmmax=33554432.  Failed <<<<

Increase the shmmax kernel parameter.

For more information on shmmax, see Checking Kernel Parameters.

Note that "Retry" in the "Product-specific Prerequisite Checks" window does not work. So you either set it manually to Passed or you restart OUI.

Checking for semopm=100; found semopm=32.       Failed <<<<

Increase the semopm kernel parameter.

For more information on semopm, see Checking Kernel Parameters.

Note that "Retry" in the "Product-specific Prerequisite Checks" window does not work. So you either set it manually to Passed or you restart OUI.

Checking for filemax=65536; found filemax=26163.        Failed <<<<

Increase the file-max kernel parameter:

For more information on file-max, see Checking Kernel Parameters.

Note that "Retry" in the "Product-specific Prerequisite Checks" window does not work. So you either set it manually to Passed or you restart OUI.

ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
  ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist
  Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory  or
  ORA-01034: ORACLE not available

First check if ORACLE_SID is set correctly.
If ORACLE_SID is set correctly, then you probably have a trailing slash "/" on the ORACLE_HOME environment variable. Remove it and try again to connect to sys (e.g from ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/db_1/ to ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/db_1).

ORA-00988 missing or invalid password(s).

During the Oracle10g installation you probably provided a password for the Oracle database accounts that started with a digit number. Ignore this error message and change the password when you are done with the Oracle10g installation.

Make sure LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to $ORACLE_HOME/lib:

oracle$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib


 

X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
  X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

To rectify this problem, try to login to the remote Oracle server again by using the "X11 forward" feature of ssh. Execute the following command from your local desktop:

$ ssh -X oracle@oracle_remote_server_name

Now when you try to run any GUI tool on the remote server, it will automatically be relinked to your local desktop. If this is not working, verify that the ForwardX11 setting is not set to "no" in /etc/ssh/ssh_config on your remote server:

su - root
# grep ForwardX11 /etc/ssh/ssh_config | grep -v "^#"
        ForwardX11 yes
#

NOTE: If you use for example Red Hat Fedora Core 3 as your desktop and you want to install the database on another machine, then you need to set the DisallowTCP entry in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf for the GNOME Display Manager to read:

DisallowTCP=false

After that you need to restart your X server. I usually do this with the init command:

su - root
init 3
init 5

If you are using telnet, however, you will have to set DISPLAY manually, see my other article Starting runInstaller for more information.

ORA-00988 missing or invalid password(s).

You may get this error message on RHEL3 x86_64, RHEL4 x86_64, and on other systems. Even though you most probably have /usr/X11R6/lib64/libXp.so.6 installed on your system, this error messages is complaining that it can't find the libXp.so.6 shared library for i386:

 /tmp/OraInstall2005-06-15_07-36-25AM/jre/1.4.2/lib/i386/libawt.so: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

On my RHEL3 x86_64 system for 10g (10.1.0.3) I had to install the i386 XFree86-libs package (XFree86-libs-4.3.0-81.EL.i386.rpm). In order to satisfy dependencies for this i386 package, I had to install a few other i386 RPMs as well:

# rpm -ivh XFree86-libs-4.3.0-81.EL.i386.rpm \
      XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-81.EL.i386.rpm \
      expat-1.95.5-6.i386.rpm \
      fontconfig-2.2.1-13.i386.rpm \
      freetype-2.1.4-4.0.i386.rpm \
      zlib-1.1.4-8.1.i386.rpm

On my RHEL4 x86_64 U1 system for 10g (10.1.0.3) I had to install the i386 xorg-x11-deprecated-libs package (xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm). In order to satisfy dependencies for this i386 package, I had to install a few other i386 RPMs as well:

# rpm -Uvh xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm \
      xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm \
      xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm \
      expat-1.95.7-4.i386.rpm \
      fontconfig-2.2.3-7.i386.rpm \
      freetype-2.1.9-1.i386.rpm \
      zlib-1.2.1.2-1.i386.rpm

On my RHEL4 x86_64 U2 system for 10g R2 (10.2.0.1.0) I had to install the i386 xorg-x11-deprecated-libs package (xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm). In order to satisfy dependencies for this i386 package, I had to install a few other i386 RPMs as well:

rpm -Uvh xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm \
      xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm \
      xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm \
      expat-1.95.7-4.i386.rpm \
      fontconfig-2.2.3-7.i386.rpm \
      freetype-2.1.9-1.i386.rpm \
      zlib-1.2.1.2-1.2.i386.rpm

On my RHEL4 x86 U2 system for 10g R2 (10.2.0.1.0) I had to install the following RPM:

rpm -Uvh xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm

If you get this error message on Fedora Core 3 x86, install the xorg-x11-deprecated-libs RPM. For example:

# rpm -Uvh xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21

After I installed these RPMs I had to restart the installation. If you know a more elegant way to continue, please drop me an email.

You may get this error message or a similar one when installing 64-bit 10g on RHEL4 x86_64.

On my RHEL4 U1 x86_64 system for 10g (10.1.0.3) I installed the following i386 RPM to fix this problem:

# rpm -Uvh glibc-devel-2.3.4-2.9.i386.rpm

On my RHEL4 U2 x86-64 system for 10g R2 (10.2.0.1.0) I installed the following i386 RPM to fix this problem:

# rpm -Uvh glibc-devel-2.3.4-2.13.i386.rpm


 

You may get this error message or a similar one when installing 64-bit 10g on RHEL4 x86_64.

On my RHEL4 U1 x86_64 system for 10g (10.1.0.3) I installed the following i386 RPM to fix this problem:

# rpm -Uvh libgcc-3.4.3-22.1.i386.rpm

On my RHEL4 U2 x86_64 system for 10g R2 (10.2.0.1.0) I installed the following i386 RPM to fix this problem:

# rpm -Uvh libgcc-3.4.4-2.i386.rpm


 

Make sure the libaio RPM is installed.

For example in RHEL 3 x86:

# rpm -Uvh libaio-0.3.96-5.i386.rpm

For example in RHEL 4 U2 x86_64:

# rpm -Uvh libaio-0.3.103-3.x86_64.rpm


 

I saw this error when I installed 10g R2 on Fedora Core 4. I fixed it by patchting/upgrading the SELinux policy:

# rpm -Uvh selinux-policy-targeted-1.25.2-4.noarch.rpm

You can download the latest selinux-policy-targeted RPM from http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/.

You could also disable SELinux which I DO NOT recommend:

# /usr/sbin/setenforce 0


 

The log file showed the following error:

INFO: gcc:
INFO: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5: No such file or directory
INFO:

INFO: /u01/app/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/bin/genorasdksh: Failed to link liborasdkbase.so.10.2

INFO: make: *** [liborasdkbase] Error 1

On my RHEL4 U2 x86_64 system for 10g R2 (10.2.0.1.0) I installed the following x86_64 RPM to fix this problem:

# rpm -Uvh compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3.x86_64.rpm

Note that you may already have the "i386" compat-libstdc++-33 RPM installed on your systems but you need the "x86_64" RPM to fix this problem. To verify which compat-libstdc++-33 RPM you have installed on your system, run:

# rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}  (%{ARCH})\n' compat-libstdc++-33


 

The log file showed the following error:

INFO: Creating /u01/app/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/lib/liborasdkbase.so.10.2

INFO: gcc:
INFO: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: No such file or directory
INFO:

INFO: /u01/app/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/bin/genorasdksh: Failed to link liborasdkbase.so.10.2

This means that the "33" version of the compat-libstdc++ RPM is missing.

On my RHEL 4 U2 x86 system for 10g R2 (10.2.0.1.0) I installed the following RPM to fix this problem:

# rpm -Uvh compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3.i386.rpm

NOTE: You need the "33" version of the compat-libstdc++ RPM. For i386 there is also a "296" version of the compat-libstdc++ RPM. Here are the two compat-libstdc++ RPMs that come with RHEL 4 U2:

compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.7.2.i386.rpm
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3.i386.rpm

In Fedora Core 4 x86 I installed the following RPM to fix this problem:

# rpm -Uvh compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.fc4.i386.rpm

NOTE: You need the "33" version of the compat-libstdc++ RPM. For i386 there is also a "296" version of the compat-libstdc++ RPM. Here are the two compat-libstdc++ RPMs that come with FC4:

compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.fc4.i386.rpm
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.fc4.i386.rpm

After that hit Retry in the error dialog window.

The log file showed the following error:

INFO: /usr/bin/ld: /u01/app/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/lib/libirc.a(fast_memcpy.o): 
    relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against `_memcpy_mem_ops_method' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

INFO: /u01/app/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/bin/genorasdksh: Failed to link liborasdkbase.so.10.2

This error comes up when installing 10g R2 (10.2.0.1.0) on RHEL4 x86_64. Make sure to upgrade to RHEL4 U3 or to download the binutils RPM from https://rhn.redhat.com/ or from http://oss.oracle.com/projects/compat-oracle/files/RedHat/:

# rpm -Uvh --force binutils-2.15.92.0.2-13.0.0.0.2.x86_64.rpm

For more information on this bug, see Bugzilla Bug 679.

There can be many reasons for this error. For example, this can happen during ASM instance startup when the libaio RPM is not installed on the system.

Make sure the loopback entry in /etc/hosts is not missing when you start the listener:

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost

Now try to run lsnrctl start as oracle again.

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