Oracle XE Database Configuration failed

Question

I am trying to create an oracle xe database in my vps.

VPS OS : Cent OS.

When try to run

/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure

i

Answer 1

I too faced the similar issue on Linux Mint 17.3. Fortunately, I found the solution sooner. The issue is simply that your shared memory file is not where Oracle expects it to be i.e. /dev/shm but you'd be having it at /run/shm with /dev/shm linking to it.

So, to resolve this issue, before configuring the database, you must perform the below steps in order

$ sudo rm -rf /dev/shm
$ sudo mkdir /dev/shm
$ sudo mount -t tmpfs shmfs -o size=2048m /dev/shm

I have tested it, works perfect.

Answer 2

I had same issues.

I uninstalled oracle-xe. See How to reconfigure Oracle 10g xe on Linux

Then followed

yum install bc
rpm -i oracle-xe.rpm
/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure

Everything went fine.

Answer 3

Add your servers name and IP to the /etc/hosts file