Original Post can be viewed at 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 must upgrade all nodes of the cluster to Oracle Clusterware 10g Release 2. If you have [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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 style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">"vmxaiomgr.retrycontabort" Please disconnect and reconnect if the storage is external to comupter</span> The next [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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 p10098816_112020_Linux-x86-64_2of7.zip Please note that this is full release , so if you are installing new software, you can directly install 11.2.0.2 without [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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 download it directly to server (thus avoiding copying to [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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 when I tried to use lynx , it repeatedly gave error for [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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. [SEVERE] - 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 indicating that following parameter need’s to be specified MYORACLESUPPORT_USERNAME = MYORACLESUPPORT_PASSWORD [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Checking Single Client Access Name (SCAN)...</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">WARNING: <strong>PRVF-5056</strong> : Scan Listener "LISTENER" not running</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Checking name resolution setup for "scan-test.abc.com"...</span></span> <span [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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 supported, OCR and Voting Disks are also stored [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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 to use ASM for storing database files, then you should [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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 then need’s to be executed  with root permission. As per doc’s , it [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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, faced following errors for unixODBC* rpm #rpm -ivh compat-libstdc++-33* libaio-devel* sysstat* unixODBC* warning: compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 1e5e0159 [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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  requires one to upgrade to supported release i.e 10.2. [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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 unable to find products.xml file. Check response file for FROM_LOCATION parameter and see if [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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 '/archive/oracle/soft/Patch/6980307/6756433/files/lib/libhasgen10.so' to '/oracle/crs_base/app/product/crs10gR2/lib/libhasgen10.so'... Copy failed from '/archive/oracle/soft/Patch/6980307/6756433/files/lib/libocr10.so' to '/oracle/crs_base/app/product/crs10gR2/lib/libocr10.so'... Copy failed from '/archive/oracle/soft/Patch/6980307/6756433/files/lib/libocrb10.so' to '/oracle/crs_base/app/product/crs10gR2/lib/libocrb10.so'... Copy [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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 captures System Information such as OS,Hardware Details (like number of [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Oracle Database 11G Installation on Solaris 10

I had installed Oracle Database 11g on Solaris 10 few days back. I thought of documenting the steps for easy reference. Please find below steps for the same Installation Pre-Requisite Refer to Oracle Database Installation Guide 11g Release 1 (11.1) for Solaris Operating System for checking Hardware and Software Requirements. User Creation and Environment Settings [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 11.1.0.6 ASM installation on Solaris fails -II

Some time back, I had written about CSS service not starting in my post 11.1.0.6 ASM installation on Solaris fails -I After doing some research, I came across Metalink Document Note:397238.1 – How to Convert init.cssd as a SMF service for Solaris 10 This document talks about using Service Management Facility (SMF) which was introduced [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 11.1.0.6 ASM installation on Solaris fails -I

Looks like that there is no easy way for me to install/configure Oracle components. And every install/configuration leads me to some or the other problems. Anyways I was trying to install Oracle Database 11g on a Solaris 10 but the CSS does not seems to come up. While issuing localconfig add as root user it [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Easy and Free X-Windowing Setup with Cygwin

Today I had to carry out Oracle client Installation on one of the server. Normally I use vncviewer to connect to one of my Linux machine (having vncserver setup) and then get the display on to that machine. But my colleague suggested me about one more approach, which I thought of sharing with all of [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at CPU (Critical Patch Update) and N-apply

OVERVIEW Oracle has been regularly releasing security fixes for all it’s products to take care of any security vulnerability. Since 2005 Oracle formulated a policy that it will release CPU patch ( bundle of security fixes) every quarter (January, April, July, and October). CPU includes fixes for various Oracle products including Database. Initially Oracle decided [...]

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