Re: Developer 2000 Problems When Installing With Oracle 7 Server

From: Karsten Farell <kfarrell_at_medimpact.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:44:48 GMT
Message-ID: <4E0k9.516$mz4.23593201@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>

First of all, there is no need to "apologize" for trying out "obsolete" software or an "archaic" database. If the posts I see in this newsgroup are any indication, 7.3.4 seems to be running at a fair number of sites (so it would seem to be a very "marketable" skill to have knowledge of these old-timers). BTW, I removed your cross-posted newsgroups from my reply. :)

When you said you tried to uninstall before attempting a second (zillionth?) install, did you completely remove all traces of Oracle. The OUI (Oracle Universal Installer) doesn't do a thorough job of uninstalling (in its defense, neither do many other uninstallers). You have to manually remove stuff from the registry and other places.

You said you followed the Installation Guide. Did you also read thru the Release Notes? I know it's very, very long ... but trust me, with Oracle, you have to read it very carefully. For example, since you indicated that you're getting an NLS error after attempting the nth install, I found NLS sections beginning on page 41 of the release notes on MetaLink. They talk about how you have to uninstall NLS separately and before you uninstall the rest of Developer/2000.

I might be way off base here, but could this be your problem? I've had to uninstall Oracle products so many times that I finally kept a text file of how to do it on Win2k (Unix is simple by comparison ... odd, since *installing* on Unix is much more difficult than on Win2k).

Dan Krug wrote:
> "Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
> news:3D8F89DF.60C5BE3F_at_exesolutions.com...
>

>>Dan Krug wrote:
>>
>>
>>>     I am having trouble installing Developer 2000 on a workstation
>>>connected to a server running Oracle 7(NT).  At first the installation
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> would
>

>>>constantly generate page fault errors, and the installation would quite
>>>prematurely.  This happened on both NT workstation and Win 98.  Also,
>>

> this
>

>>>happened when I tried to uninstall the application.  After finally
>>

> getting
>

>>>the application to install (I am not sure how successful the
>>

> installation
>

>>>was), I get the following error when trying to connect to the database:
>>>"ORA-12705 invalid or unknown NLS parameter value specified.  I am
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> trying to
>

>>>connect through sqlplus 3.3 when I get this error.  Does any one know
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> how to
>

>>>solve this problem?  Am I getting this error because the installation
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> went
>

>>>poorly?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Dan Krug
>>
>>Your posting creates more questions than answers.
>>
>>What version and edition of Oracle 7?
>>What version of Developer?
>>What CPU chip on the machine you are trying to use to install Developer?
>>Have you defined ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID environment variables?
>>Have you read and followed the installation instructions?
>>
>>But, in addition, why are you installing obsolete software to access an

>
> archaic
>

>>version of Oracle?
>>
>>Daniel Morgan
>>

>
> To answer your questions,
> * I am running Oracle7 Server Release 7.3.4.0.0 - Production,
> * the Form utilities ver 4.5.7.1.6 of Developer,
> * it is an Intel chip set,
> * I have defined the ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID environment variables
> (although I may
> have done it wrong),
> * I did follow the installation instructions ( as well as I could,
> considering it kept crashing),
> * and lastly I am "installing obsolete software to access an archaic
> version of Oracle" for experimental,
> hobby type reasons.
>
> Thank You,
> Dan Krug
>
>
Received on Tue Sep 24 2002 - 11:44:48 CDT