Monthly Archives: March 2008

Exception in TimedProcess

Posted by on March 28, 2008 No comments

Problem: When attempting to start or stop the Oracle instance, the following message is returned:

Executing service control script:

/u3/oracle/vis4comn/admin/scripts/VIS4_appslinux/adcmctl.sh stop

script returned:

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ERROR :

Exception in TimedProcess…Failed to  execute command =

/u3/oracle/vis4comn/admin/scripts/VIS4_appslinux/adcmctl.sh stop apps/apps

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Solution: You are not logged on as the Oracle user (most likely as root). Log on as the Oracle user (applmgr or oracle)

Configuring VNC to Use Gnome

Posted by on March 28, 2008 No comments

Problem: On CentOS 4.8, logging into VNC session on server for first time does not show Gnome session.

Solution: Edit the VNC xstartup file.

Edit the ~/.vnc/startup and replace the line

# xterm -geometry 80×24+10+10 -ls -title “$VNCDESKTOP Desktop” &

twm &

with

gnome-session &

When vncserver is first run, the xstartup file should be similar to the following:

[oracle@localhost ~]$ cat .vnc/xstartup
#!/bin/sh

# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
# unset SESSION_MANAGER
# exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
twm &

After replacing the last line, the xstartup file should now appear as follows:

[oracle@localhost ~]$ cat .vnc/xstartup
#!/bin/sh

# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
# unset SESSION_MANAGER
# exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
gnome-session &

After running vncserver, if the GNOME desktop GUI does not load when you connect with the VNC viewer, then try replacing the contents of xstartup with the following:

#!/bin/sh
# Add the following line to ensure you always have an xterm available.
( while true ; do xterm ; done ) &
# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
gnome-session &

Note that you need to kill the vncserver session and restart it for the changes to take effect. For example, to kill the vncserver session 1, issue the following command:

vncserver -kill :1

Then rerun ‘vncserver’ to restart the VNC server session and reconnect with the VNC viewer.

Reference:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/VNC-Server

 

11i Installation Troubleshooting

Posted by on March 17, 2008 No comments

Installation of 11i instance on Windows Server 2003

1. Installed Visual C++ 6.0 and Visual Studio Service Pack 4

2. Set IP address in hosts file

3. Installed ActivePerl and Microsoft XML Parser

4. Started staging process:
cd
perl E:Disk1rapidwizadautocfg.pl

Error Encountered:
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Only 12-13 files copied from Start CD

5. Uninstalled MKS Toolkit from C:Program Files and reinstalled it to C:mksnt

6. Changed TEMP environment variables to C:TEMP

7. Retried staging process:

Error Encountered:
—————–

Failed to copy adautocfg.pl to C:TEMPstaging

8. Determined which perl was being executed:
which perl

perl from MKS Toolkit being executed, because it is ahead of ActivePerl on path.

9. Uninstalled and reinstalled ActivePerl.

10. Retried staging process. Same error (Failed to copy adautocfg.pl to C:TEMPstaging)

11. Modified PATH environment variable so that ActivePerl (C:PERLbin) ahead of MKS Toolkit in path

12. Retried staging process. Staging progressing without errors.

13. Started installation by running rapidwiz

Error Encountered:
—————–

‘which’ not found

Solution:
——–

In Rapid Install, set MKS Directory to C:mksntmksnt

Error Encountered:
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‘gnumake’ not found

Solution:
——–

Unzip make3.81 tar, set VC environment (VCVARS.bat), compiled gnumake (build_w32.bat) and copied gnumake.exe to C:Windowssystem32. Check that gnumake is in path by typing ‘which gnumake’

14. No errors encountered while installing. Post-install steps completed successfully.

15. After installing, logged on to application and submitted concurrent job. ‘Inactive Manager’

Error Encountered:
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Active Users report completed on error:

ERR REP-3002: Error initializing printer. Please make sure a printer is installed.

Solution:
——–

Checked Metalink Doc ID: Note:365267.1 (Subject: All Requests End In Error With REP-3002: Error Initializing Printer)

Installed a local printer (Epson FX-80)

Error Encountered:
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Internet Explorer crashing when forms are loaded.

Solution:
——–

Deinstall JInitiator and reinstall it.

Installing Oracle Applications 11i Checklist

Posted by on March 7, 2008 No comments

This is a list of steps to check for when installing Oracle Applications.

Step 1:        Ensure that hostname and IP address are in hosts file. Under Windows, ensure that in the hosts file, the hostname is in the following order:

127.0.0.1                    localhost.localdomain                       localhost

xx.xx.xx.xx               hostname.domainname                   alias

Step 2:        Ping machine. It should return:

C:> ping alias

Pinging hostname.domainname [xx.xx.xx.xx] with 32 bytes of data:

Step 3:        Create domain user applmgr and ensure that it is assigned to the Administrators group of the local machine.

Step 4:        Install Visual C++ 6.0 to C:VC98 and apply service pack 4

Step 5:        Install Cygwin to C:cygwin (see Metalink document “Using Cygwin to Maintain Release 11i on Windows” Doc ID:302859.1 for packages to download).

Step 6:        To compile GNU Make, run VCVARS.bat from Visual C++ directory and in the gnumake-3.79.1 directory, run build_w32.bat twice. Copy gnumake.exe to c:cygwinbin (or C:mksntmksnt).

Step 7:        Install Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) 3.0 Service Pack 4 or later SDK. Copy file from Microsoft XML Parserlib to C:VC98lib.( 11.5.9)

Step 8:        Install Java SDK 1.3.1_18 (11.5.9) (or 1.3.1_15?)

Step 9:        Install Perl (download ActivePerl from http://www.perl.com) (11.5.10)

Step 10:   Copy zip.exe and unzip.exe to C:mksntmksnt

Step 11:    Ensure that all files are on the path:

which gnumake

which perl

which zip

which cc

which link

Modify path if necessary to include: C:Perlbin; C:cygwinbin;C:VC98bin.

Step 12:   Ensure correct versions of Perl and Java installed:

Perl –version

ActivePerl version should be v5.8.8

On Linux, Perl should be 5.003 or later

Java –version

Should be 1.3.1_18

Step 13:   Set TEMP and TMP environment variables for user applmgr to C:TEMP.

Step 14:   Check manual on startCD for instructions on directory structure (11.5.9).

Step 15:   Set up staging area.