Installing Oracle 10g

GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide
by Graham Williams

Installing Oracle 10g

Ensure X forwarding is enabled, and log in as user oracle:

xhost + su oracle

Start the oracle installer:

cd /tmp/Disk1 ./runInstaller

If everything is working you should see everything pass, and a window will pop up. If not, go back and make sure you didn't miss anything.

Ignore two rpm errors (in the console).

Ignore two compile errors (in GUI - click continue)

(The two errors concern ``ihsodbc ctx_on'' and ``all_no_orcl.'')

Before running /home/oracle/product/10.1.0/Db_1/root.sh as root create a symbolic link:

ln -s /etc /etc/rc.d

Now run the root.sh script. Oracle installs a service called cssd. The script waits 600 seconds (10 minutes) for the service to be started before going on. You need to do some set up while it waits for you! The message on the console will show: Expecting the CRS daemons to be up within 600 seconds. There are three things to do (as suggested by Eduardo Diaz Comellas).

First, the /etc/inittab file needs a line to set the active runlevels to 23 (the Debian defaults) instead of 35 (the Red Hat and Suse defaults). Change it from:

h2:35:respawn:/etc/init.d/init.cssd run >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null

to

h2:23:respawn:/etc/init.d/init.cssd run >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null

Next, the inittab runs /etc/rc.d/init.d/init.cssd. Exit this script and, at line 83, replace:

SU="/bin/su -l"

with

SU="/bin/su "

The Debian su does not support the -l option.

Finally, make init restart the service:

# init q

The root.sh script should now continue and finish as expected.