Installation of Oracle 10.2.0.2 on Solaris 10 x86_64 ?
We have a loaner V40Z with Solaris 10 (latest rev.) and the current recommended patches installed. All attempts to get Oracle 10.2.0.2 installed have failed with errors related to shared memory configuration. The dbca fails at step 10 or 11 with the message:
"SGA size cannot be greater than maximum shared memory size (0)"
Several other attempts fail earlier with complaints about:
Checking for shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=4294967295; found shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=0
I've seen 27 different versions of setting (or not setting) shm. parameters in /etc/system or setting via prctl and projmod either as root or as user oracle. The Oracle utilitytstshm runs fine, can attach a 4GB segment thru it. I run this and can verify via ipcs that shm. is being allocated and freed. So why does the oui and dbca think there is zero shared memory ?
Is there anyone out there who has a_working_install of Oracle 10.2 on Sol10 x86_64 ?
thanks,
Don M.
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h.j.gritsa] at [2007-11-26 12:21:06]
# 1
Hi,have you set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=4294967295 in /etc/system?It is obsolete, but AFAIR Oracle runInstaller checks this in /etc/system.regards,Peter
# 2
Hi again,
assumption proven ;-)
full details from Oracle below
HTH,
Peter
Applies to: Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition - Version: 10.2.0.1
SymptomsWhile installing Oracle10gR2 on a Solaris 10 x86-64 server, Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) reports the following errors while checking the kernel parameters:
shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=4294967295 found no entry . Failed <<
shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100 found no entry . Failed <<
shmsys:shminfo_semmni=100 found no entry . Failed <<
shmsys:shminfo_semmsl=256 found no entry . Failed <<
The overall results of this check is Failed.
The kernel parameters do not meet the minimum requirements
CauseOUI is looking at /etc/system to check the kernel parameter settings, but this file is not used (by default) in Solaris 10
OUI should check the kernel parameter settings using the resource control utility ( /bin/prctl )
SolutionTo implement the solution, please execute one the following steps:
1. Verify that the kernel parameter settings are correct using the resource control utility ( /bin/prctl ) and then start OUI like this:
./runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs
OR
2. Include the recommended kernel parameter settings in the /etc/system file and start OUI as normal:
./runInstaller
