Installation Issues

The following issues are known to exist when installing the Oracle database plug-in.

Oracle 9i Depends on Oracle 10g (6229179)

You might see the following message when importing the Oracle 9i plug-in:

Unable to install plug-in "com.sun.oracle9i_DB" version 1.0. This plug-in has a dependency 
on another plug-in "com.sun.oracle10g_DB" version 1.0, which was not found. You may need to 
install the missing plug-in first before re-trying to install this plug-in. (604010)

Workaround: Import the Oracle 10g database plug-in first. Both Oracle database plug-ins depend on the common OraSpt component. This component is part of the Oracle 10g plug-in, therefore you must import the 10g database plug-in first.

Uninstall of Oracle 9i on Linux Plan Fails (6227857)

You see the following error message when you run the uninstall plan for Oracle 9i on a RedHat Linux system:

"unexpected signal 11" (SIGSEGV) in /lib/ld-linux.so.2 during the call to the 
Oracle Universal Installer with the options "-silent -deinstall".

Workaround: Manually remove the files.

Incomplete Oracle 10g Uninstall Operation on Linux AS 3.0 Causes Re-Install Operation to Fail (6254511)

Workaround: Manually remove the files. Follow these steps:

1. Remove the /opt/app/* Oracle directories.

2. Remove the Oracle directory in which you installed the prep-OS scripts.

3. Delete the oracle user.

4. Delete the oinstall group.

5. Delete the dba group.

6. Remove any Oracle-related files in the /etc directory.

7. Remove init.cssd files in the /etc/init.d directory.

8. Remove CSS files in the /etc/rc5.d directory.

Steps will be similar to the following example.

# /bin/rm -rf  /opt/app/*
# /bin/rm -rf /oracle 
# /usr/sbin/userdel oracle 
# /usr/sbin/groupdel oinstall 
# /usr/sbin/groupdel dba 

[root@booger SUNWn1sps]# cd /etc
[root@booger etc]# ls -l ora*
-rw-rw-r--    1 oracle   oinstall       55 Apr 13 08:48 oraInst.loc
-rw-rw-r--    1 oracle   root          760 Apr 13 10:43 oratab

oracle:
total 8
-rw-r--r--    1 oracle   oinstall       92 Apr 13 10:43 ocr.loc
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Apr 13 08:53 scls_scr

# /bin/rm -fr ora* 

# cd /etc/init.d

# /bin/rm -rf init.cssd 

# cd /etc/rc5.d 
[root@booger rc5.d]# ls *css*
K96init.cssd  S96init.cssd
# /bin/rm -rf K96init.cssd  S96init.cssd