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Release Notes
10g Release 2 (10.2) for Linux on POWER
B25146-05
March 2007
This document contains important information that was not included in the platform-specific or product-specific documentation for this release. This document supplements Oracle Database Readme and may be updated after it is released.
To check for updates to this document and to view other Oracle documentation, refer to the Documentation section on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Web site:
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For additional information about this release, refer to the readme files located in the $ORACLE_HOME/relnotes directory.
This document contains the following topics:
The latest certification information for Oracle Database 10g release 2 (10.2) is available on OracleMetaLink at:
The following products are not supported with Oracle Database 10g release 2 (10.2):
Grid Control Support
Oracle Database 10g release 2 (10.2) can be managed as a target by Grid Control 10.1.0.4. However, Oracle Database 10g release 2 is not supported by Grid Control 10.1.0.4 as a repository.
COBOL
Oracle Database 10g release 2 (10.2) does not support COBOL on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0.
Messaging Gateways with MQseries 5.3
Oracle Database 10g release 2 (10.2) does not support Messaging Gateways with MQseries 5.3.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 4737821.
Verity
Verity filters used for Oracle Text are not supported
You must review the following sections before installing Oracle Database 10g release 2:
Before upgrading to or installing Oracle Database 10g release 2, install the libaio package.
Install oracleasm-support package version 2.0.0.1 or higher to use ASMLib on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Advanced Server or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.
If you intend to use Oracle HTTP server, which is included in Companion CD of Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2) Media pack, refer to the MetaLink note 317085.1 for more information on using Oracle HTTP server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0.
This section lists the following corrections to the installation guides for Linux on POWER:
In Oracle Database Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation Guide, Chapter 2, "Preinstallation," in the section "Oracle Clusterware Home Directory," it incorrectly lists the path /u01/app/oracle/product/crs as a possible Oracle Clusterware home (or CRS home) path. This is incorrect. A default Oracle base path is /u01/app/oracle, and the Oracle Clusterware home must never be a subdirectory of the Oracle base directory.
A possible CRS home directory is in a path outside of the Oracle base directory. for example, if the Oracle base directory is u01/app/oracle, then the CRS home can be an option similar to one of the following:
u01/crs/ /u01/crs/oracle/product/10/crs /crs/home
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 5843155.
Review the following sections for information about issues that affect Oracle Database installation, configuration, and upgrade:
Before running root.sh in the first node of a shared Oracle Clusterware home, add the following line in the $ORA_CRS_HOME/opmn/conf/ons.config file:
usesharedinstall=true
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 4454562.
To install Oracle Security Manager, install Oracle Client and then select the Administrator installation type.
To enable the extjob executable to locate required libraries, the $ORACLE_HOME/lib directory and all of its parent directories must have execute permissions for group and other.
When modifying the name, IP address, or netmask of an existing virtual IP address (VIP) resource, use the following command:
srvctl modify nodeapps
and include the existing interfaces for the VIP in the -A argument. For example:
srvctl modify nodeapps -n mynode1 -A 100.200.300.40/255.255.255.0/eth0
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 4500688.
When you restart a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 system, raw devices revert to their original owners and permissions by default. If you are using raw devices with this operating system for your Oracle files, for example, for ASM storage or Oracle Clusterware files, you need to override this default behavior. To do this, add an entry to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file for each raw device containing the chmod and chown commands required to reset them to the required values.
As an example, here are sample entries in a /etc/rc.d/rc.local file that control the restart behavior of raw devices for two ASM disk files (/dev/raw/raw6 and /dev/raw/raw7), two Oracle Cluster Registry files (/dev/raw/raw1 and /dev/raw/raw2), and three Oracle Clusterware voting disks (/dev/raw/raw3, /dev/raw/raw4, and /dev/raw/raw5):
# ASM chown oracle:dba /dev/raw/raw6 chown oracle:dba /dev/raw/raw7 chmod 660 /dev/raw/raw6 chmod 660 /dev/raw/raw7 # OCR chown root:oinstall /dev/raw/raw1 chown root:oinstall /dev/raw/raw2 chmod 660 /dev/raw/raw1 chmod 660 /dev/raw/raw2 # Voting Disks chown oracle:oinstall /dev/raw/raw3 chown oracle:oinstall /dev/raw/raw4 chown oracle:oinstall /dev/raw/raw5 chmod 644 /dev/raw/raw3 chmod 644 /dev/raw/raw4 chmod 644 /dev/raw/raw5
The following sections contain information about issues related to Oracle Database 10g and associated products:
Link Error During genorasdksh on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
Interim Fix for the IBM XL C/C++ Advanced Edition V7.0 for Linux Runtime Environment Component
If the system uses a European language, you might see corrupted characters in Table of Contents of database tools, such as Database Configuration Assitant.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 3957096.
Workaround: If the system uses a European language, do not use the .UTF-8 locale. For example, if the system uses German, set the LANG and LC_ALL environment variables to de_DE instead of de_DE.UTF-8.
The following note applies if you are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 and using raw devices to store the Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) and the voting disk for Oracle Clusterware, or using raw devices for Automatic Storage Management (ASM) database files. For each raw device used for the purposes listed, you must add two entries in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file after running the root.sh script following the installation of Oracle Clusterware.
For each OCR file, the entries should look as follows, where oinstall is the Oracle install group and /dev/raw/rawn is an individual device file:
chown root:oinstall /dev/raw/rawn chmod 640 /dev/raw/rawnmar
For each voting disk file, the entries should look as follows, where oracle is the Oracle user, oinstall is the Oracle install group, and /dev/raw/rawn is an individual device file:
chown oracle:oinstall /dev/raw/rawn chmod 644 /dev/raw/rawnmar
For each ASM file, the entries should look as follows, where oracle is the Oracle user, oinstall is the Oracle install group, and /dev/raw/rawn is an individual device file:
chown oracle:oinstall /dev/raw/rawn chmod 660 /dev/raw/rawnmar
This section lists the issues with Cluster Verification Utility on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9:
The preinstallation stage verification checks for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Applications Clusters and reports missing packages. Ignore the following missing packages and continue with the installation:
compat-libstdc++-devel-7.3-2.96.128
To use hugepages or to accommodate the VLM window size on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, you must increase the default maximum size of the per-process locked memory. To increase the per-process max locked memory limit, add the following lines to the /etc/security/limits.conf file, where oracle is the user that administers the database:
oracle soft memlock 3145728 oracle hard memlock 3145728
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, Oracle C++ Call Interface (OCCI) does not yet support GCC 3.4.3. The current GNU C++ compiler version that OCCI supports with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 is GCC 3.2.3.
Workaround: Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 with GCC 3.2.3.
Note:
For updates on GCC support, refer to the OCCI home page on OTN:http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/occi/index.html
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, Oracle XML Developer's Kit (XDK) is not supported with GCC. XDK is supported with Intel C++ compiler (ICC).
Installing Oracle Database 10g release 2 (10.2.0.1) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Update 1 (2.6.9-11.ELsmp) produces a link error during creation of liborasdkbase.so.10.2. The following error message is thrown:
INFO: gcc: INFO: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: No such file or directory INFO: INFO: $OH/bin/genorasdksh: Failed to link liborasdkbase.so.10.2
This is because Oracle Database 10g release 2 (10.2) requires Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 libraries (/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5).
Workaround: Install the compatible libraries as follows:
rpm -ql compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 4605635.
Do not remove the key values for the wait class metrics. Doing so removes them permanently and currently there is no easy way to recover them.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 4602952.
You must install the IBM XL C/C++ Advanced Edition V7.0 for Linux Runtime Environment Component and XL Optimization Libraries component from the following link:
This URL contains information and installation instructions. All the above installations must to be done before installing Oracle database.
On SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, install the following components:
The RTE component: vacpp.rte.70.sles9.jan2006.update.tar.gz
The XL Optimization Libraries: vac.lib.70.sles9.tar
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, install the following components:
The RTE component: vacpp.rte.70.rhel4.dec2005.update.tar.gz
The XL Optimization Libraries: vac.lib.70.rhel4.tar
Relink of Database 10g release 2 fails when you install Database 10g release 2 (10.2.0.1) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (Update 2 or later). To resolve this issue, you need to install the patch mentioned in Oracle bug 4767801 and retry linking.
Help pages for Oracle Universal Installer appear blank for Japanese language locale that has the following settings:
NLS_LANG=Japanese_Japan.JA16EUC LANG=ja_JP.eucJP
Workaround: Run the following command to start Oracle Universal Installer:
./runInstaller -J-Dibm.stream.nio=TRUE
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 5106619.
An error is generated while installing Oracle Database 10.2.0.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Update 2 or later and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 with service pack 2 or later. Most of the times, the error is generated when you perform any of the following tasks:
While installing Oralce Database 10.2.0.1 after a fresh and complete installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Update 2
While installing Oralce Database 10.2.0.1 after a fresh and complete installation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 with service pack 2 or later
When you start dbca or netca from the command line or Oracle Universal Installer, if Standard installation is selected
Workaround: Before installing Oracle Database 10g release 2, verify the contents of the /etc/resolv.conf file. Edit the file to make the following change:
Change the line similar to:
domain=my.net.com
To:
search=my.net.com
The original /etc/resolve.conf file can be restored after the database installation is complete.
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