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Release Notes
10g Release 2 (10.2) for Linux x86-64
B15666-01
October 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.
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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.
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 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.
Oracle Procedural Gateway for APPC
Oracle Procedural Gateway for WebSphere MQ
Oracle Clustered File System version 2
Oracle ODBC driver
Pro*COBOL
For Oracle Database 10g release 2 on Linux x86-64, 64-bit JDBC (using JDK 5) is supported.
You must consider the following issues before starting the installation.
Upgrading to or Installing Oracle Database 10g Release 2
Before upgrading to or installing Oracle Database 10g release 2, install the libaio package.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
Before installing Oracle Database 10g release 2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Update 1, install the following packge:
binutils-2.15.92.0.2-13.0.0.0.2.x86_64
This package can be downloaded from the following link:
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 4619031
Oracle Lite
Before installing Oracle lite, make sure that the following package is installed:
libxml2-2.5.10-7.i386.rpm
Install oracleasm-support package version 2.0.0.1 or later to use ASMLib on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Advanced Server or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.
This section contains issues that apply to RAC databases on NAS devices.
The following correction applies to the section "Requirements for Using a File System for Oracle Clusterware" in the RAC installation book:
In the RAC installation book, ignore the Note that reads: If you are using a shared file system on a NAS device to store a shared Oracle home directory for Oracle Clusterware for RAC, then you must use the same NAS device for Oracle Clusterware file storage. This note is untrue and should be ignored for all Oracle Database installations on Oracle Clusterware.
Review the following sections for information about issues that affect Oracle Database installation, configuration, and upgrade:
If you upgrade a 9.2 RAC environment to Oracle Database 10g release 2 or install Oracle Database 10g release 2 on a computer running 9.2 RAC, then install the mendatory patch for Oracle bug 4656840 on all the nodes before installing 10g release 2 Cluster Ready Services (CRS). Ensure that you run the rootpre.sh script when prompted by Oracle Installer.
In the RAC installation book, in the table in the section "Configuring Kernel Parameters," the following parameters have incorrect names:
net.core.rmem_default net.core.rmem_max net.core.wmem_default net.core.wmem_max
The correct parameter names are as follows:
rmem_default rmem_max wmem_default wmem_max
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 4586020.
To install Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), install Oracle Client and then select the Administrator installation type.
When upgrading from 10.1.x to 10.2, if the host name directory under the /etc/oracle/scls_scr directory includes the domain name, then the following error message is displayed when you run the rootupgrade.sh script and the Oracle Clusterware stack does 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 the rootupgrade.sh script.
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.
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 the system uses a European language, then you must 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.
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/rawn
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/rawn
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/rawn
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
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