Oracle10g/Linux Errors and Problems

Here is a list of common Oracle10g installation problems and other issues.

Note that most of the issues are due to not following the installation procedure correctly. And some errors are due to not using an Oracle supported Linux OS.

The Installation log file can be found in $ORACLE_BASE/oraInventory/logs.
The Database Creation log file can be found in $ORACLE_BASE/admin/$ORACLE_SID/create.

Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors    Failed <<<<   >>> Could not execute auto check for display colors using command /usr/X11R6/bin/xdpyinfo. Check if the DISPLAY variable is set.    Some optional pre-requisite checks have failed (see above). Continue? (y/n) [n]

I ignored this error message on my system and said "Yes" to continue. But if you want to fix it and get rid of this error message, ensure the following RPMS are installed:

rpm -q XFree86 xf86tools cabextract libpng libjpeg XFree86-Mesa

Example for installing these packages on SLES-9 (packages can be found on the 2nd CD):

su - root
rpm -Uvh XFree86-4.3.99.902-43.22.i586.rpm \
         XFree86-Mesa-4.3.99.902-43.22.i586.rpm \
         xf86tools-0.1-955.5.i586.rpm \
         cabextract-1.0-17.1.i586.rpm \
         libpng-1.2.5-182.4.i586.rpm \
         libjpeg-6.2.0-731.1.i586.rpm

Enterprise manager configuration failed due to the following error -    Failed to allocate port(s) int the specified range for the following process(es):   JMS [5540-5559], RMI [5520-5539], Database Control [5500-5519], EM agent [1830-1849]

The problem is that ports listed in /etc/services are discounted. The workaround is to specify the ports manually, see emca -h. Use the following options and use the port ranges as specified in the above error message:

emca -RMI_PORT  -JMS_PORT  -AGENT_PORT  -DBCONSOLE_HTTP_PORT 

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-01034: ORACLE not available   ORA-27121: unable to determine size of shared memory segment   Linux Error: 13: Permission denied

Make sure the SUID/SGID bits are set for $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle:

ls -l $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle
-rwsr-s--x  1 oracle oinstall 72524978 Dec 26 13:12 /u01/app/oracle/OraHome_1/bin/oracle

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.

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
#   ForwardX11 no
ForwardX11Trusted yes

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

./runInstaller: line 67:  6275 Segmentation fault      $CMDDIR/install/runInstaller -formCluster $*

This error can come up if your system does not have a swap space.

Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2005-03-13_03-53-51PM.   Please wait .../tmp/OraInstall2005-03-13_03-53-51PM/oui/lib/linux/libclntsh.so.9.0  bad CRC c0265abb  (should be f138c206)    Error in writing to directory /tmp/OraInstall2005-03-13_03-53-51PM. Please ensure that this directory is writable and   has atleast 60 MB of disk space. Installation cannot continue. 

Sometimes I'm getting this error message. Simply try again.

Recovery Manager rman hangs

You are probably running the wrong rman binary which belongs to the XFree86-devel RPM:

$ which rman
/usr/X11R6/bin/rman

source and reference 

http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle10gOnSUSE.shtml#TipsAndHintsForOracle10gOnLinux