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Release Notes

10g Release 2 (10.2) for Linux x86-64

B15666-11

February 2008

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,

refer to the Documentation section on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN)

Web site:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/

For additional information about this release, refer to the readme files located in

the $ORACLE_HOME/relnotes directory.

This document contains the following topics:

■ Certification Information

■ Unsupported Products

■ Preinstallation Requirements

■ Documentation Corrections and Additions

■ Installation, Configuration, and Upgrade Issues

■ Other Known Issues

■ Documentation Accessibility

1 Certification Information

The latest certification information for Oracle Database 10g release 2 (10.2) is

available on OracleMetaLink at:

http://metalink.oracle.com

1.1 Supported Operating Systems

Oracle Database 10g release 2 is supported on the following operating systems:

■ Oracle Enterprise Linux 4

■ Oracle Enterprise Linux 5

■ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

■ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

■ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Summary of content (20 pages)

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Oracle® Database Release Notes 10g Release 2 (10.2) for Linux x86-64 B15666-11 February 2008 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, refer to the Documentation section on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Web site: http://www.oracle.
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■ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 ■ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 2 Unsupported Products 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.
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.2 Install oracleasm-support to use ASMLib Install oracleasm-support package version 2.0.0.1 or higher to use ASMLib on Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Advanced Server, or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. At the time of this publication, the ASMLib user space tools and kernel module packages are not yet available for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. 3.3 Install binutils on Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
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3.6 Oracle HTTP Server on Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 If you intend to use Oracle HTTP server, which is included in Companion CD of Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2) Media pack, refer to the MetaLink note 317085.1 for more information on using Oracle HTTP server on Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0. 3.7 Oracle HTTP Server on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
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binutils-2.15.92.0.2-10.EL4 compat-db-4.1.25-9 compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3 compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3(i386) compat-libstdc++-296.i386 control-center-2.8.0-12 gcc-3.4.3-22.1 gcc-c++-3.4.3-22.1 glibc-2.3.4-2 glibc-2.3.4-2(i386) glibc-common-2.3.4-2 glibc-devel-2.3.4-2 glibc-devel-2.3.4-2(i386) gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-44.1 libaio-0.3.96-3 libgcc-3.4.3-9.EL4 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 xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-23.
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u01/crs/ /u01/crs/oracle/product/10/crs /crs/home This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 5843155. ■ The following text of the section 2.6.1, "IP Address Requirements," in Chapter 2, "Pre-Installation Tasks," of Oracle Database Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation Guide states that the virtual IP address (VIP) should respond to a ping command: During installation, OUI uses the ping command to ensure that the VIP is reachable. The preceding statement is incorrect.
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5.1 Latest Upgrade Information For late-breaking updates and best practices about preupgrade, post-upgrade, compatibility, and interoperability discussions, refer to Note 466181.1 on OracleMetalink (https://metalink.oracle.com/) that links to "The Upgrade Companion" Web site. 5.2 Upgrading Oracle Real Application Clusters Release 9.2 If you are upgrading a 9.2 RAC environment to Oracle Database 10g release 2 on Red Hat Linux 3.
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Original Value Changed Value VERSION = 10 VERSION = 9 This workaround causes the installer to consider the system to be running earlier version of the operating system and the operating system check passes. The changes to the release file should be reverted after the installation of all Oracle software is complete. The changes to the release file could impact the ability of other tools to be properly installed on the operating system. 5.
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5.7 extjob Executable Required Directory Permissions 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. 5.8 Modifying a Virtual IP Address Node Application Use the srvctl modify nodeapps command to modify the name, IP address, or netmask of an existing virtual IP address (VIP) resource.
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5.10 Database Migration Review the following sections if you want to migrate Oracle Database 10g release 2 database from Linux x86 to Linux x86-64: ■ Migrating Single Instance Database from Linux x86 to Linux x86-64 ■ Migrating Oracle RAC Database from Linux x86 to Linux x86-64 5.10.1 Migrating Single Instance Database from Linux x86 to Linux x86-64 To migrate Oracle 10g release 2 single instance database from Linux x86 to Linux x86-64, complete the following procedure: 1.
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MAXINSTANCES 1 MAXLOGHISTORY 112 LOGFILE GROUP 1 '/lnx_x86-64_path/oradata/eegp22/redo01.log'size 25M, GROUP 2 '/lnx_x86-64_path/oradata/eegp22/redo02.log'size 25M DATAFILE '/lnx_x86-64_path/oradata/eegp22/system01.dbf', '/lnx_x86-64_path/eegp22/sysaux01.dbf', '/lnx_x86-64_path/eegp22/users01.dbf', '/lnx_x86-64_path/eegp22/undotbs01.dbf' CHARACTER SET WE8DEC ALTER DATABASE OPEN ; Note: In the preceding example, the path value changes as per the system. 8.
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To create an instance, use a command similar to the following command: $ srvctl add instance -d 10gdb -i 10gdb1 -n pl-adc.amd15 4. Set the ORACLE_SID environment variable for one of the database instances in the environment. For the Bash or Korn shell: $ ORACLE_SID=10gdb1; export ORACLE_SID For the C shell: % setenv ORACLE_SID 10gdb1 5. Export the server parameter file (SPFILE) to a text initialization parameter file as follows: SQL> CREATE PFILE = '$ORACLE_HOME/dbs/init10gdb1.
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MAXLOGMEMBERS 2 MAXDATAFILES 32 MAXINSTANCES 1 MAXLOGHISTORY 112 LOGFILE GROUP 1 '/lnx_x86-64_path/oracle/dbs/t_log1.dbf' size 25M GROUP 2 '/lnx_x86-64_path/oracle/dbs/t_log2.dbf' size 25M DATAFILE '/lnx_x86-64_path/oracle/dbs/t_db1.dbf' CHARACTER SET WE8DEC ALTER DATABASE OPEN 11. Shut down the database. SQL> SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE 12. Before changing the word size of your release, you must edit the initialization parameter file (pfile) by adding the following line: _system_trig_enabled=false 13.
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Note: You need to shutdown the database and start it in upgrade mode. 18. Edit the text initialization parameter file to remove the following line: _system_trig_enabled=false 19. To restart the database, use the following command: ./srvctl start database -d 10gdb -o pfile=$USR_ORA_PFILE Ensure that the USR_ORA_PFILE variable is set to the location of pfile. Alternately, you can specify the complete path of pfile in the command. 20.
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6.1 Building Pro*C Applications if PostgreSQL is Installed 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(.
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6.4 Cluster Verification Utility This section lists the issues with Cluster Verification Utility on Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.0, Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and 10: ■ ■ Cluster Verification Utility (CVU) does not support shared checks for raw disks used for Oracle Cluster File System version 2 on Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.0, Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
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Workaround: Comment out the lines that set the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL variable from the VIPCA and SRVCTL utilities. For the VIPCA utility alter the $CRS_HOME/bin/vipca script commenting out lines 119 through 123 as follows: # # # # # arch=’uname -m’ if [ "$arch" = "i686" -o "$arch" = "ia64" -o "$arch" = "x86_64" ] then LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL fi With the lines commented out, root.sh should be able to call VIPCA successfully.
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Workaround: Set a value for MAX_IDLE_TIME instead of setting a value for MAX_IDLE_BLOCKER_TIME. This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 6114355. 7 Documentation Accessibility Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology.
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