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| Title: | Oracle |
| Notice: | For product status see topics: UNIX 1008, OpenVMS 1009, NT 1010 |
| Moderator: | EPS::VANDENHEUVEL |
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| Created: | Fri Aug 10 1990 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1574 |
| Total number of notes: | 4428 |
1532.0. "Can't access Oracle on-line documents" by DONVAN::HARRIS () Mon Mar 17 1997 12:14
I am trying to get familiar with OPS to help put together some
TruCluster training. As such, I just installed Oracle Parallel
Server, V 7.3.2.1.0 on a system running Digital UNIX V4.0 (rev 386).
Since completing the install, I've had troubles accessing the on-line
documentation.
When I type...
oradoc
I get a quasi-window terminal, but can never access any of the
menus at the top of the screen.
When I type...
cd /Layers/Oracle/app/oracle/product/7.3.2/orainst
oradocm
I first get the error...
/Layers/Oracle/app/oracle/product/7.3.2/orainst//Layers/Oracle/
app/oracle/product/7.3.2/orainst/ob: No such file or directory
When I try...
cd /
/Layers/Oracle/app/oracle/product/7.3.2/orainst/oradocm
I get the error...
Startup of Oracle Book failed.
Check your ORACLE_HOME setting.
Some of my environment variables are listed below:
HOME=/Layers/Oracle/app/oracle/product/7.3.2
SHELL=/usr/bin/csh
PATH=/Layers/Oracle/app/oracle/product/7.3.2/orainst:
/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11
USER=Oracle
ORACLE_HOME=/Layers/Oracle/app/oracle/product/7.3.2
ORACLE_TERM=vt100
ORACLE_SID=1
DISPLAY=16.30.16.251:0.0
TERM=vt300
Any suggestions???
Peggy
| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1532.1 | check this out | ALFAM7::GOSEJACOB | | Tue Mar 18 1997 04:07 | 41 |
| re .0 - couple of comments
>When I type...
> cd /Layers/Oracle/app/oracle/product/7.3.2/orainst
> oradocm
>I first get the error...
> /Layers/Oracle/app/oracle/product/7.3.2/orainst//Layers/Oracle/
> app/oracle/product/7.3.2/orainst/ob: No such file or directory
Explanation for this behavior:
When you have a look at the file 'oradocm' you'll see it is actually a
sh script that sets up the environment before calling the Motif based
Oracle book viewer. Now checking your PATH setting you'll find you have
'$ORACLE_HOME/orainst' there but you don't have '.' in your path. Which
means if you type 'oradocm' your shell will pick
'$ORACLE_HOME/orainst/oradocm'. Now the first thing this script does is
using the command path '$0' to determine where it was called from;
which in your case will tell the script a wrong location. The script
actually assumes you did a 'cd $ORACLE_HOME/orainst; ./oradocm'. Remove
'$ORACLE_HOME/orainst' from your PATH and start from there.
Now if you try as I suggested you will see the error message:
Startup of Oracle Book failed.
Check your ORACLE_HOME setting.
Well this error message is not very helpful. In fact it has nothing to
do with the cause of the problem. Oracle Motif based tools have a
problem running on 4.0x. The problem is caused by the fact that all
Oracle Motif tools seem to have the path '/usr/lib/X11/nls' hardcoded
for I18N support. Now that directory does not exist in X11R6 which
is the X11 implementation in any D'Unix 4.0x. The good news is: just
creating an empty directory '/usr/lib/X11/nls' will fix the problem
starting Oracle Motif based tools.
Btw it took me some time and a close look at 'strings svrmgrm' to
finally find this work around. And another hint: make sure to apply all
required Oracle patches before you try and run on 4.0x.
Cheers
Martin
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| 1532.2 | | WONDER::REILLY | Sean Reilly, Alpha Servers, DTN 223-4375 | Tue May 20 1997 16:42 | 4 |
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Boy, was this frustrating me. Thanks for figuring this out, Martin.
- Sean
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| 1532.3 | Thanks | DONVAN::HARRIS | | Mon Jun 02 1997 14:04 | 3 |
| Yes... A belated Thanks from me, as well!
Peggy
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