Oracle Installer upgrade from 9.2.0.7 naar 9.2.0.8

[Rob van Buiten]

HP-UX 11.11
Oracle 9.2.0.7
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Hi,

I want to upgrade to 9.2.0.8
and can't find path for shared library: libjvm.sl
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>>>:/oraclebackups/ora_928_patchfiles/Disk1 # runInstaller
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

Checking installer requirements...

Checking operating system version: must be B.11.11. Actual B.11.11
Passed

Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB. Actual 18432MB Passed

All installer requirements met.

Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /oraclebackups/OraInstall2007-05-09_09-53-32AM. Please wait ...un0004:/oraclebackups/ora_928_patchfiles/Disk1 # /usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't find path for shared library: libjvm.sl
/usr/lib/dld.sl: No such file or directory

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AFTER THAT I EXPORTED SHLIB_PATH

SHLIB_PATH=/usr/lib
export SHLIB_PATH

After that all seems to be OK, but no oracle install screen appears!!
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un0004:/oraclebackups/ora_928_patchfiles/Disk1 # runInstaller
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

Checking installer requirements...

Checking operating system version: must be B.11.11. Actual B.11.11
Passed

Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB. Actual 18432MB Passed

All installer requirements met.

Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /oraclebackups/OraInstall2007-05-09_10-09-51AM. Please wait ...un0004:/oraclebackups/ora_928_patchfiles/Disk1 #

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Don't know what's happening!
Anybody?
Thanks,
Ron Sahertian

(ps, i did an export of DISPLAY and the free space of the TMP directory is enough)

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Lovely there may be permissions problems on teh driectories its listing.

Check the install log and take a look at what processes are running.

Its entirely possible ORacle has delivered a bad install script.

SEP

[Rob van Buiten]

Hi Steven,

I ran this same script earlier and it has worked...

Thanks,
Ron

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi Ron,

can you post the logfile generated when the command was launched?

Also, make sure that the xclock command successfully displays the window.

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Rob van Buiten]

Hi,

This is the logfile!
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more installActions2007-05-09_09-15-49AM.log
Using paramFile: /oracle/EXP/oui/oraparam.ini


Checking installer requirements...

Checking operating system version: must be B.11.11. Actual B.11.11
Passed

Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB. Actual 18432MB Passed

All installer requirements met.
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And xclock produces a nice graphical clock!

Thanks,
Ron

[Yogeeraj_1]

Hi again,

will it be possible to clear all the installation and retry again?

I mean logfiles, repositories, existing directories, etc

Also make sure that you have gone through the pre-installation tasks as well as run the VALIDATE script to verify that your environment is OK for the installation.

let us know

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Rob van Buiten]

Thanks,

What VALIDATE script is available???

Ron

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi Ron,

Sorry for the confusion.

InstallPrep, VALIDATE or RDA script is available from metalink. This tool enable you in verifying your environment - if ok for the installation.

With RDA, you are offered option for the following:
Available Pre-Installation Rule Sets:
1. Oracle Database 10g R1 (10.1.0) PreInstall (linux-x86)
2. Oracle Database 10g R1 (10.1.0) PreInstall (linux-amd64)
3. Oracle Database 10g R1 (10.1.0) PreInstall (linux-ia64)
4. Oracle Database 10g R2 (10.2.0) PreInstall (linux-amd64)
5. Oracle Database 10g R2 (10.2.0) PreInstall (linux-x86)
6. Oracle Application Server 10g (9.0.4) PreInstall (linux)
7. Oracle Application Server 10g R2 (10.1.2) PreInstall (linux)
8. Oracle Portal PreInstall (generic)
Available Post-Installation Rule Sets:
9. Oracle Portal PostInstall (generic)
10. Data GuardPortal PostInstall (generic)

VALIDATE script was used for 10g installations. This was pre-RDA.

Pre-VALIDATE was InstallPrep Script.
This has been de-supported and more information as well as the script is available with Metalink Note:189256.1 Subject: UNIX: Script to Verify Installation Requirements for Oracle 8.0.5 to 9.2 versions of RDBMS


hope this helps too!

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Volker Borowski]

Hi,

I am assuming a missmatch of the required JAVA virtual machine (libjvm.sl).

Since it worked earlier and it does not work now ...

Did you change either JAVA_HOME in your environment or did you update to a nonsupported (may be too high) version in you current JAVA_HOME or did you apply a patch that has garbled esp. this file libjvm.sl ?

Does
find / -name libjvm.sl
suggests another location where SHLIB_PATH might be successfull ?

Good hunting
Volker

[Court Campbell]

Oh my. Rob, if you can... stay on 9.2.0.7. Or move to 10g. I have heard it is not worth it. More pain than pleasure. Not unless your application is forcing you to move to it.