Problems installing Oracle Database Express Edition 11g

Question

I\'m trying to install Oracle Database in (X)ubuntu 13.04 64-bit using this guide. Everything goed well until I get to the following step:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/ora         


        

Answer 1

This link looks like it has the answer. You need to make sure that /dev/shm is mounted on your system, and assign it memory of at least MEMORY_TARGET.

You can do this by adding the following to your fstab, and rebooting. (This will set the /dev/shm size to 2gb):

shmfs /dev/shm tmpfs size=2048m 0 0

Answer 2

I was in the same boat, trying to configure XE on a virtual machine (openSUSE 13.01 64bit).

The solution in my case was the missing hostname in /etc/hosts. You can examine the errors in /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/config/log/CloneRmanRestore.log at the very beginning (the path depends on your XE version).

Search for an info similar to: ORA-00119: invalid specification for system parameter LOCAL_LISTENER ORA-00130: invalid listener address '(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=linux-cn65.site)(PORT=1521))

So linux-cn65.site (the VM host) was missing. Add your host in /etc/hosts (as root):

127.0.0.1 linux-cn65.site <-- your host here

and run the configuration again (as root): sh /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure

Additional trickery

• if you do not have the error files in the log folder, you may re-install XE without h flag, like this:

  • to find your package: sudo rpm -qa | grep -i oracle
  • to remove it: sudo rpm -e oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64 <-- your package here

• install again without h flag: sudo rpm -iv oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm

oh, replace the version (oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm) with yours. Cheers ;)

Answer 3

I had this exact issue with Ubuntu 14.04. The issue came down to Oracle-XE expecting sufficient space at /dev/shm while ubuntu has changed to using /run/shm with a symlink from /dev/shm.

The solution that worked for me was to create the file /etc/rc2.d/S01shm_load containing:

#!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
start)
    mkdir /var/lock/subsys 2>/dev/null
    touch /var/lock/subsys/listener
    rm /dev/shm 2>/dev/null
    mkdir /dev/shm 2>/dev/null
    mount -t tmpfs shmfs -o size=2048m /dev/shm ;;
*)
    echo error
    exit 1
    ;;    
esac

I got this from http://sysadminnotebook.blogspot.de/2012/10/installing-oracle-11g-r2-express.html which is similar to many other pages on installing XE but was the only one with this solution.

PS. The file permissions are set at 755 so you will need to execute:

sudo chmod 755 /etc/rc2.d/S01shm_load

to set the permissions on this file.

Answer 4

nano /etc/init.d/oracle-shm

add text

#! /bin/sh 
# /etc/init.d/oracle-shm 
# 
case "$1" in 
start) 
echo "Starting script /etc/init.d/oracle-shm" 
# Run only once at system startup  
if [ -e /dev/shm/.oracle-shm ]; then 
echo "/dev/shm is already mounted, nothing to do" 
else 
rm -f /dev/shm 
mkdir /dev/shm 
mount --move /run/shm /dev/shm 
mount -B /dev/shm /run/shm 
touch /dev/shm/.oracle-shm 
fi 
;; 
stop) 
echo "Stopping script /etc/init.d/oracle-shm" 
echo "Nothing to do" 
;; 
*) 
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/oracle-shm {start|stop}" 
exit 1 
;; 
esac 
# 
### BEGIN INIT INFO 
# Provides: oracle-shm 
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog 
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog 
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6 
# Short-Description: Bind /run/shm to /dev/shm at system startup. 
# Description: Fix to allow Oracle 11g use AMM. 
### END INIT INFO

make the file executable

chmod 755 /etc/init.d/oracle-shm
/etc/init.d/oracle-shm start

At this stage reboot, then check

df -kh /dev/shm

further proceed to emulate chkconfig and continue with rest of configuration and install

dpkg -i oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.deb

Check the environment variables and ORACLE_HOME and start database

Answer 5

I struggled with this too. I have tried a few different solutions, but still got the problem. I "fixed" it by removing memory_target from the database configuration:

sqlplus / as sysdba
create pfile=‘<path>’ from spfile 
!vi <path>

Add # in front of the line with memory_Target, save and close file.

startup from pfile=‘<path>'
create spfile from pfile=‘<path>’

This solution works nice with my XE database, hope it helps.

Answer 6

Check your /etc/hosts file. It should looks like

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost hostname.domain hostname

http://blog.christian-stankowic.de/?p=5276&lang=en