Install error - invalid /etc/hosts file

From: Norman Dunbar <Norman.Dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:15:47 +0100
Message-ID: <E2F6A70FE45242488C865C3BC1245DA703912398@lnewton.leeds.lfs.co.uk>

Morning George,

I had a similar problem installing 9i Release 2 EE on Mandrake 9.0 recently. The installer barfed with a few errors about not being able to contact the host.

My box is set up as ganymede.bountifulsolutions.co.uk but the /etc/hosts file only had :

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain

I changed it to :

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain ganymede ganymede.bountifulsolutions.co.uk

and the install proceeded correctly. I think the problem was related to the database name I used, I called it 'TITAN.bountifulsolutions.co.uk' which gave me a SID of TITAN.

Might help - hopefully !

Cheers,
Norm.

Norman Dunbar
Database/Unix administrator
Lynx Financial Systems Ltd.
mailto:Norman.Dunbar_at_LFS.co.uk

Tel: 0113 289 6265
Fax: 0113 289 3146
URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com


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-----Original Message-----
From: aceducy_at_yahoo.com (Ace) [mailto:aceducy_at_yahoo.com] Posted At: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 7:24 PM Posted To: server
Conversation: Install error - invalid /etc/hosts file Subject: Install error - invalid /etc/hosts file

Hello all -

While trying to install 9ias on a Linux box (SuSe), I keep getting this message that the "hosts database" is invalid. Install bombs.

I don't think there's anything wrong with my /etc/hosts - any ideas?

George Received on Thu Apr 17 2003 - 03:15:47 CDT