Posts Tagged ‘Install’
10gR2 Silent Install with 11gr2 CRS fails
I was trying to perform a 10.2 silent install with 11gR2 CRS. While doing pre-checks installer failed with following error Check complete: Failed <<<< Problem: The 'active' version of Oracle Clusterware is not 10g Release 2 (10.2). Recommendation: You [Read More]
BUG: Creating 11gR2 RAC Using VMware On Toshiba Laptop
I was setting up 11gR2 RAC grid infra on my new Toshiba L745 series laptop on OEL5.4, the installation was going very smoothly but suddenly the VMWare machines crashed while performing remote operations on second node with following message: <span [Read More]
Steps to Upgrade 11.2.0.1 RAC to 11.2.0.2
This post is in continuation to Grid Infrastructure upgrade post written earlier. Ensure that you have downloaded the software and have upgraded the infrastructure database. Following files contain database software for 11.2.0.2. p10098816_112020_Linux-x86-64_1of7.zip [Read More]
11.2.0.2 Patchset available.Download directly to server
11.2.0.2 Software is now available for download. It contains 4G+ binaries as you now perform out of place upgrade i.e software is installed in separate home from current home. You can also use it to install 11.2.0.2 directly instead of upgrading from 11.2.0.1. Use wget to [Read More]
Downloading Oracle Software directly to Server
This article is based on Pythian’s aricle DOWNLOADING FROM OTN DIRECTLY TO YOUR DATABASE SERVER. Article tell’s about using lynx (text based web browser available on linux) to generate the cookies file which can be then used with wget to download software. But [Read More]
11gR2 Silent Install errors with [SEVERE] – Invalid My Oracle Support credentials
While performing 11gR2 RAC Database Software installation with response file (silent mode), I got this error. - Invalid My Oracle Support credentials I was using default response files for performing this installation. Searching on MOS (My Oracle Support ), I got a note [Read More]
11gR2: CVU needs SCAN Listeners’ Manual Startup During Grid-Infrastructure Configuration
During configuration phase of Grid Infrastructure for cluster, CVU failed while performing post-checks. Following message is displaced in the Installation Log file: <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: [Read More]
Link:11gR2 RAC installation steps on OEL4
If you are looking for steps for 11gR2 RAC installation, you can refer to this article by Rajeev Ramdas at Dbastreet.com. Article lists down steps for installing 11gR2 RAC on 64 bit Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 (OEL4) using ASM for storage. As Raw devices are no longer [Read More]
11gR2 Database Installation with ASM on OEL5
I will be listing down steps for 11g Release 2 installation on Linux x86. There has been few changes incorporated in 11gR2 which must be given due consideration before starting installation. ASM instance now runs from new Oracle Home called Grid Infrastructure. If you wish [Read More]
11gR2:What if Oracle gives you Kernel parameter fixup script
11gR2 database installation comes up with new feature known as Installation Fixup scripts which aids you during Installation phase. If a pre-requisite check fails, then it provides a click and generate fixup script option and then points you to script location which [Read More]
Failed dependencies error: lib* needed by unixODBC-devel-2.2.11-7.1.i386
While trying to install 11gR1 on Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL5), runInstaller failed for unixODBC* packages. To solve the issue , I started following OTN article http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/smiley-11gr1-install.html When trying to install RPM from CD3, [Read More]
Installing 10.2.0.5 EM using software-only on 10.2.0.4/11g DB (GUI)
In this article , I will discuss how to install 10.2.0.5 EM Grid using 10.2.0.4 database. This method can also be used with 11g database.When you carry out 10.2.0.1 EM Grid control installation, it creates a 10.1.0.4 Database by default which is no longer supported and [Read More]
Silent Install :OUI-10133:Invalid staging area Error
While using silent install for database software installation , you could encounter following errors SEVERE:OUI-10133:Invalid staging area. There are no top level components for IBM SP AIX available for installation in this staging area. This error is reported when OUI is [Read More]
OUI-67124 – Copy failed from ‘location 1′ to ‘location 2′
Just a short note to discuss a problem faced by me while applying CPU Jan patch to clusterware on AIX 5L. I was getting following errors UtilSession failed: ApplySession failed in system modification phase... 'ApplySession::apply failed: Copy failed from [Read More]
Using RDA As RDBMS Pre-Install Check Tool
Many of us would have come across RDA (Remote Diagnostic Agent) while working on a ticket with Oracle support. In case you have not heard about it, I would recommend to go through Metalink Note:314422.1 – Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA) 4 – Getting Started RDA [Read More]
