Comments on: Troubleshooting Oracle 10g XE Installation on Ubuntu

By: itralarcon

itralarcon — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:21:57 +0000

Simply: Excellent! Thanks for share your knowledge…

By: Ehsan

Ehsan — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:01:29 +0000

I resolved this issue doing this following:

1) changing the permissioning for listener.log as already described
2) Making the following change in the listener.ora file:

#(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC_FOR_XE))
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC1))

This was described here:
http://technorattle.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/oracle-listener-throws-operation-not-permitted-on-ubuntu/

Finally, the hostname was my local PC’s name rather than localhost when using Oracle SQL Developer.

By: mikesmithers

mikesmithers — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:42:41 +0000

Dave,

thanks for the feedback.
I’ve now corrected the embarrassing typos.
I’ve also included a mention of MestreLion’s sticky bit solution.

Mike

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:01:08 +0000

Great article and thanks a million! However you should add the sudo chmod -t /var/tmp/.oracle tip from someone above. I had the other problems mentioned in your article – not in the dba group, log permissions wrong – this “sticky bit” thing was the final piece in the jigsaw!

Also you have a couple of typos where startdb.sh is referenced as dbstart.sh

By: Fouwaaz

Fouwaaz — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:44:51 +0000

Great stuff Mike! Your write-up is excellent and covers all the bases. I was able to successfully connect using oci_connect() on Ubuntu 10.04 running 10g on a VirtualBox installation on a Vista host. The first problem was in the permissions of the listener.log file which is set to chmod 777. The second problem was the listener.ora file, it said HOST= which I changed to localhost.

Thank you very much!

By: Hamzah

Hamzah — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:38:02 +0000

Thanks very much its working with me
I’m so grateful for you

By: josema

josema — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:19:03 +0000

I’ve changed the startup order and worked fine (ussing kdialog instead of lib-notify)

Thank you.

By: mikesmithers

mikesmithers — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:31:52 +0000

Josema,
Here are instructions on how you can do this
thanks for the advice. I’m sure other KDE users will find it useful.
As for the Application Express Web access, you may be able to speed it up by changing
the order that oracle starts up the TNS Listener and the database.
Here are instructions on how you can do this.
I think lib-notify is a Gnome package, but there’s bound to be a KDE equivalent.
In any case, with the change in the startup order, I find that I can hit the Database Home Page as soon as I get the
notification that Oracle has started.
Let me know if it works the same for you.

By: josema

josema — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:07:29 +0000

Thank you. This article has been very usefull and helped me solve my issues with the database.

I had the same problem that yakup explained, and I solved ussing the “chmod -t /var/tmp/.oracle” tip. It worked fine for me.

I’m running kubuntu 11.04, and had and additional problem: the oracle scripts didn’t appear in the menu. They were under “lost & found”. Easily solved ussing the menu editor:
- Right click on the “kick-off Application launcher” button to bring up the editor (“Edit applications”)
- Click “New Submenu” to create the ORACLE submenu
- Drag and drop the ORACLE commands from the “lost & found” submenu to the newly created ORACLE submenu.

Finally, it’s worth noting that the web access ussing “Application Express” takes a while to start, even after the database is already working. In my case, the database takes less than 5 seconds (that’s when the icon stops “bouncing”), but the web access is not available until 20 seconds later. I mention it because I stoped and started the database a couple of times not giving the web access time to start until I realized that in fact it was working fine. I guess this could be a usefull tip for other folk as impatient as I am.

Thank’s again for the help.

By: mikesmithers

mikesmithers — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:54:30 +0000

MestreLion,

thanks for the tip, I’ll give it a go next time I’m doing an install.

Mike