Re: dbca won't work after cloning Oracle Home

Hi Sandy!

Have you tried with strace to see what's going on under the hood?

Regards

On 6/14/19 5:15 PM, Sandra Becker wrote:
> Oracle EE 12.1.0.2
> RHEL 7
>
> A DBA who is no longer with the company cloned a RAC home, disabled
> RAC since we don't want it on this new server, and ran the clone.pl
> <http://clone.pl> per a doc she said she found on MOS.  All seemed to
> go well except dbca will not work.  It doesn't throw an error, just
> closes the linux session.  Suffice to say her documentation, or lack
> thereof, of her steps and any errors is less than adequate.  I'm
> attempting to replicate on a test server and have done the following:
>
> 1. Zipped the OHome  (RAC was already disabled here)
> 2. Copied the zip file to the new server and unzipped it
> 3. Ran the clone.pl <http://clone.pl> script, which said all linking,
> setup, etc. was successful.
> 4. Tried to start dbca, but it just closed my linux session
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> I've also been attempting to download new non-RAC binaries, but I
> don't have enough disk space in my downloads directory. I'll need to
> jump through hoops and get managers involved to get more space and I
> don't seem to have another directory that I can use with sufficient
> space.  Is there another way to get these files?  I would prefer a
> clean install for the next non-RAC server.
>
> --
> Sandy B.
>

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