Trouble installing Oracle Client on OpenVMS

[Alfred Munksgard]

Thanks Herald,
Yes, the disk is ODS-5
  Volume Status:  ODS-5, subject to mount verification, protected subsystems
      enabled, write-through caching enabled, hard links enabled, special files
      enabled.
The 'SET PROCESS/PARSE=EXTENDED' is used when downloading and restoring the files.
Alfred

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Herald.Kaffka at westfraser.com 
  To: Alfred Munksgard 
  Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 5:26 AM
  Subject: Re: Trouble installing Oracle Client on OpenVMS



  You are installing to an ODS-5 disk aren't you? 

  do a show device/full on dka1, you'll get a pagefull display, near the bottom will be a "volume status" line, 
  verify that the actually is ODS-5 instead of the VMS default of ODS-2... 

    Volume Status:  ODS-5, subject to mount verification, write-back caching 
        enabled. 

  you can do a "set volume dka1 /structure=5" to upgrade to ODS-5, but I would run a tape backup first 
  "just in case", wouldn't hurt to run an "analyze/disk/repair/confirm dka1" first as well just in case you 
  do have latent errors that "set volume/structure=5" can't handle... 

  I also remember something about "set process/parse_stype=extended" before starting the oracle 
  installation, (been a few years since I've run a oracle installation on VMS, that step may not be required 
  any more... 

  The ODS5 thing is a must, oracle is using UNIX style names in it's VMS kit, and the depth of the 
  distribution kit directories is deeper than the 7 or so levels that an ODS2 disk allows... 



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              Alfred Munksgard <a.munksgard at verizon.net> 


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              Subject Trouble installing Oracle Client on OpenVMS 

              

       



  Hello, I'm trying to install Oracle Client 10.2 on OpenVMS (Version V8.3-1H1). I'm only installing the Client since the Oracle database resides on a different box. When I run the installer (@runinstaller) it displays the following output: 
    
  Checking OpenVMS quota settings...
  OpenVMS quota setting checked successfully. 
    
  Please specify the location to be used for ORACLE_HOME 
    
  ORACLE_HOME location: dka1:[trs.oracle_client] 
    
  Please specify the location for temporary files created during installation.
  (this must be a directory on an ODS-5 formatted disk) 
    
  Enter scratchPath: DKA1:[ORACLE]
  Copying runInstaller components to temporary location...  
  Starting Oracle Universal Installer... 
    
  No pre-requisite checks found in oraparam.ini, no system pre-requisite checks will be executed.
  Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /dka1/oracle/OraInstall2012-03-12_03-47-27PM. Please wait ...  
                                  Oracle Universal Installer, Version 10.2.0.2.0 
  Production
  Copyright (C) 1999, 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. 
    
  Unknown host: _WSA2
  X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-utopia-medium-r-normal--*-140-*-*-p
  -*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
  X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Menu-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*
  -ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct 
    
  After about 15 minutes it brings up the Oracle Universal Installer window in X Windows momentarily 
  before giving this error: 
    
  DKA1:[ORACLE.OraInstall2012-03-12_03-47-27PM]oraInstall2012-03-12_03-47-27PM.out (file currently locked by another user) 
    
  I've tried it twice with the same error.
  There were no other users on the system. 
    
  Any input is appreciated.
  Thanks,
  Alfred--
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