RE: symlinks/OUI

Ray,

Since Oracle v7 if you stated to Oracle that you had a sym link they would walk away. Sym links can be a good thing if you are careful. We use them frequently.
We tried installing 10r2 OEM and it aborted due to our sym links.

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Ray Stell Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 12:42 PM To: oracle-l
Subject: symlinks/OUI

I discovered I had a corrupted oraInventory. I was not able to install or delete software. Somewhere in the discussion with ora support the analyst said, "OUI doesn't handle symlinks well," suggesting that my use of a symlink to oracle_home may have caused the corruption.

I did find things like this in oraInventory/logs/oraInstallxxx.err:

Ignoring Exception during
de-installoracle.sysman.oii.oiil.OiilDeinstallException:   Unable to delete file /opt/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/lib/stubs/libc.so

and sure enough, this directory structure here is a symlink."

Is this documented?
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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Wed Mar 15 2006 - 13:50:59 CST