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Release Notes
10g Release 2 (10.2) for Linux x86
B15659-03
September 2005
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, see 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:
http://metalink.oracle.com
Products and Components Not Certified at the Time of This Publication
At the time of this publication, Oracle Cluster File System version 2 is not certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.
This release is supported with the following operating systems:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 (Update 4 or later). The required kernel version is 2.4.21-27.EL.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0
The following packages (or later versions) must be installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0:
binutils-2.15.92.0.2-10.EL4 compat-db-4.1.25-9 control-center-2.8.0-12 gcc-3.4.3-9.EL4 gcc-c++-3.4.3-9.EL4 glibc-2.3.4-2 glibc-common-2.3.4-2 gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-44.1 libstdc++-3.4.3-9.EL4 libstdc++-devel-3.4.3-9.EL4 make-3.80-5 pdksh-5.2.14-30 sysstat-5.0.5-1 xscreensaver-4.18-5.rhel4.2
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Note:
GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 2.96 is not supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0. |
The following packages (or later versions) must be installed on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0:
binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-32.5 gcc-3.3.3-43.24 gcc-c++-3.3.3-43.24 glibc-2.3.3-98.28 gnome-libs-1.4.1.7-671.1 libstdc++-3.3.3-43.24 libstdc++-devel-3.3.3-43.24 make-3.80-184.1 pdksh-5.2.14-780.1 sysstat-5.0.1-35.1 xscreensaver-4.16-2.6
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See Also: Oracle Database Installation Guide for Linux x86 for more information about operating system requirements |
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.
Before upgrading to or installing Oracle Database 10g release 2, install the libaio package.
Install oracleasm-support package version 2.0.1 or higher to use ASMLib on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Advanced Server or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.
Review the following sections for information about issues that affect Oracle Database installation, configuration, and upgrade:
If you are upgrading a 9.2 RAC environment to Oracle Database 10g release 2 on Red Hat Linux 3.0, then you must apply a patch to GLIBC before proceeding with the Oracle Clusterware installation. Follow the instructions documented in OracleMetaLink note 284535.1.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 3006854.
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 Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), install Oracle Client and choose the Administrator installation type.
When upgrading from 10.1.x to 10.2, if the host name directory under /etc/oracle/scls_scr includes the domain name, then you will see the following error message when running rootupgrade.sh and the Oracle Clusterware stack will not start:
A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
/etc/init.cssd[509]: /etc/oracle/scls_scr/host_name/root/cssrun: 0403-005
Cannot create the specified file.
Workaround: Move the directory /etc/oracle/scls_scr/hostname.domain_name to /etc/oracle/scls_scr/hostname and rerun rootupgrade.sh.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 4472284.
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.
If you are using Oracle Enterprise Manager Java Console to manage your database, then you must grant the following privileges to the repository user and create the repository:
CREATE CLUSTER CREATE DATABASE LINK CREATE SEQUENCE ALTER SESSION CREATE SYNONYM CREATE TABLE CREATE VIEW
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Note: Oracle Enterprise Manager Java Console is available on the Oracle Database Client installation media. |
Complete the following steps to create a repository user and grant privileges:
Start the standalone Java Console.
Double-click the database node in the navigator tree and connect to the database as a user with the NORMAL role.
Select Create from the Object menu.
The Create window appears.
Expand the database node in the Create window and select User. Then click the Create button.
The Create User property sheet appears.
On the General page, enter the name of the user and the password, and select OEM_REPOSITORY as the default tablespace and TEMP as the temporary tablespace.
On the Role page, grant the CONNECT and SELECT_CATALOG_ROLE roles to the repository user.
On the System Privileges page grant the CREATE TRIGGER, CREATE PROCEDURE, EXECUTE ANY PROCEDURE, CREATE TYPE, EXECUTE ANY TYPE, SELECT ANY TABLE, CREATE CLUSTER, CREATE DATABASE LINK, CREATE SEQUENCE, ALTER SESSION, CREATE SYNONYM, CREATE TABLE, CREATE VIEW privileges to the repository user.
On the Quota page, specify unlimited for OEM_REPOSITORY and TEMP.
On Create User property sheet, click the Create button.
The following sections contain information about issues related to Oracle Database 10g and associated products:
If the postgresql-devel package is installed on the system, then you must add the following directory to the beginning of the sys_include parameter in the $ORACLE_HOME/precomp/admin/pcscfg.cfg file before building Pro*C applications:
$ORACLE_HOME/precomp/public
If you do not make this change, then you may encounter errors similar to the following when linking the applications:
/tmp/ccbXd7v6.o(.text+0xc0): In function `drop_tables': : undefined reference to `sqlca'
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 3933309.
If your system uses a European language, then you must not use the UTF-8 locale. For example, if your system uses German, set the LANG and LC_ALL environment variables to de_DE instead of de_DE.UTF-8.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 3957096.
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:
Cluster Verification Utility (CVU) does not support shared checks for raw disks used for Oracle Cluster File System version 2 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-gcc-7.3-2.96.128 compat-gcc-c++-7.3-2.96.128 compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.128 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.
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Note: For updates on GCC support, refer to the OCCI home page on OTN:http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/occi/index.html |
This section lists corrections to Oracle Database Installation Guide for Linux x86.
In the "Configuring Kernel Parameters" section of Chapter 2, the names of the last four parameters should be:
net.core.rmem_default net.core.rmem_max net.core.wmem_default net.core.wmem_max
In Appendix D, "Managing Oracle Database Port Numbers," the "Oracle XDB" references in the sections "Port Numbers and Protocols of Oracle Components" and "Changing the Oracle XDB Ports" are incorrect. The correct name is "Oracle XML DB," not "Oracle XDB."
The database installation directory on the installation media in Chapter 3 and Appendix A of Oracle Database Installation Guide is referred to as db. This directory should be referred to as database.
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