Oracle9i on Suse Linux

From: Jonathan Gennick <jonathan_at_gennick.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 06:29:46 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00342CBF.20010706063547@fatcity.com>

I installed Oracle9i on Suse Linux 7.1 (384MB RAM, 400MB swap), and ran into a bit of a snag. The install ran fine until the end when the database creation assistant attempted to start the seed database. At that point I received an "ORA-03113: End of File on Communication Channel" error, and my Linux box froze up. Having Linux freeze up is a pretty rare event in itself, but I'm really wondering what caused the error. After rebooting, I was able to run the database creation assistant, create another database, and start that one. I then tried to manually start the seed database, and received the same ORA-03113 error. Could this somehow be related to memory? Was it too much to have the installer and the creation assistant running at the same time?

A couple of other oddities I noticed:

During the install, I was asked to specify a location for a JDK. I dutifully created a directory and typed in its path, but the installer never actually put any files into it. Why did it ask me for a directory that it wasn't going to use?

When I run the oraenv script, it doesn't create an ORACLE_HOME environment variable. Instead of adding $ORACLE_HOME/bin to my path, it adds the full path to the bin directory. Is $ORACLE_HOME going away?

Best regards,

Jonathan Gennick
mailto:jonathan_at_gennick.com * 906.387.1698 http://Gennick.com * http://MichiganWaterfalls.com * http://MetalDrums.org

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