Comments on: Installing Oracle 11gR1 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

By: carlos

carlos — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:54:34 +0000

Hi Gonza,

had the same problems while installing x86_64 ubuntu server on my 64 bits architec laptop. And was because my processor didnt support the emulation instructions set. Did it through vmware server 2.0 and virtual box and none of the worked out. Look forward this issue on vmware site!!

By: Thai Dang Vu

Thai Dang Vu — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:41:13 +0000

First of all, many thanks to the author for this howto.

Second of all, this is my experience of installing Oracle 11g R1 on Ubuntu 9.10 server 32 bit running in VMware Workstation 7.0.1 on a Ubuntu 9.10 desktop host:

- I had some troubles with the DISPLAY, then I looked at the previous HOWTO (the one for 8.10) and I followed it and it worked.

- I run dbca and on the last page I clicked Finish to create a database. Then I saw a gray Confirmation box (like ewing comment#28). I hit Enter anyway because according to this HOWTO, the OK has the focus at that time.

- I couldn’t start the oracledb with the command
su $ORACLE_OWNR -c “$ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbstart $ORACLE_HOME”
(of course I have all environment variables setup correctly). I have libaio1 install already. In the startup.log, I saw:
SQL> ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area …. bytes
Fixed Size …. bytes
….
Database mounted.
ORA-01092: ORACLE instance terminated. Disconnection forced.

I don’t know where my problem is. I even removed the libaio1 from ubuntu and installed the libaio from oss.oracle.com (http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/install/xe-on-kubuntu.html) but the error was still the same.

By: Gonza

Gonza — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:44:38 +0000

I am trying to install 64-bit Oracle 11gR1 on Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit. I have set everything up and when I run ./runInstaller, I get the message: “You are attempting to install 64-bit Oracle on a 32-bit operating system. This is not supported and will not work.” My OS is 64-Bit, not 32-Bit…

According to “uname -a” the system tells me I have an SMP i686 processor (really a Phenom Quad Core 9500). Is there a way to force either Oracle to see the correct OS or some other way to get this to work??

By: jfota

jfota — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:22:30 +0000

I successfully followed your instructions. What is the url for the Oracle server?

https://localhost:1521 doesn’t work.

By: Dayssam

Dayssam — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:20:57 +0000

I don’t see anything in the “Confirmation” page. After I fill in all the details and click “Finish” in dbca, I see a gray box with the title “Confirmation” and nothing in it. So, I can’t see or click “OK” button and hence can’t create a database ! Oh well.

Any ideas ?

By: Dayssam

Dayssam — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:16:25 +0000

Thank You ;
Every thing is OK

By: tubbyasstoo

tubbyasstoo — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:12:51 +0000

hahaha
I worked out the cause of my thinkpad install problem…

the instructions above has a small typo

user@jackalope:~$ export ORACLE_SID=ORA11DEV

should of course read

user@jackalope:~$ export ORACLE_SID=ORADEV11

By: tubbyasstoo

tubbyasstoo — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:46:41 +0000

hi
thanks for the these instructions. as previously posted I have successfully installed oracle 11gr1 onto an ubuntu 9.04 system running under virtualbox3
but I have been trying to do the same with a real ibm thinkpad t23, with 1GB RAM, with exactly the same ubuntu and oracle levels, unfortunately this fails to install the database properly, with the init.ora not being created, hence the DB does not start, and who knows what else is missing
I ensured that it was not just sloppy typing on my part, by reinstalling everything on the thinkpad (OS and DB), and in parallel performing the same operations on a new virtualbox session, which I limited to 960MB RAM to be as close to the thinkpad resources as possible
I have a trace.log of the install, but can’t make head nor tail of why this fails
can anyone help ?

By: roybentig

roybentig — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:35:24 +0000

I got a core dump when I tried to do this with 11g R2 installer on Karmic (9.10). Have you tried and succeeded with that combination?

On a (perhaps) related note, I would be happy for any insight you may have:

My set up has an 8G ext3 file system mounted on / and another 8G nilfs2 file system mounted on /opt. I am running the installer from /opt and also installing to /opt. When I ran the installer, each time, I saw about 5% of the / filesystem space used up. I searched for core files, could not find any …

Let me know if you have any ideas! Thanks.

By: jfota

jfota — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:11:58 +0000

Dude! You’re a genius.