Prepare for Oracle Apps R12 Installation

In today’s post I will discuss on steps you should do/need for Oracle Apps R12 installation. Most of these steps are written w.r.t. to Installation on Linux but I’ll try to mention any additional software required for Windows or any other platform.

Where to download Apps R12 Software ?
First thing you need is Oracle Apps R12 which is available at eDelivery (Click here to go to eDelivery) or you can order software DVD’s via Metalink. You don’t need to download all CD’s .

You might have to register initially with Name, Company & email address & try again after 1-2 days (You might not get confirmation, just try after a day)
Select product as E-Business Suite & your platform , For Linux you have to select Part Number B35903-01 (There are total 72 CD’s {you don’t need all 72 CD’s} with total size as 35GB {this is just software size & not actual installation})

In actual you have to download following 64 CD’s rest others are for NLS, 10g AS & BI CD’s

Oracle Applications Release 12.0 Rapid Install Start Here – Disk 1 (5 CD’s)
Oracle Applications Release 12.0 for Linux x86 Rapid Install RDBMS – Disk 1 (3 CD’s)
Oracle Applications Release 12.0 for Linux x86 Rapid Install Databases – Disk 1 (6 CD’s)
Oracle Applications Release 12.0 for Linux x86 Rapid Install Databases – Disk 2 (7 CD’s)
Oracle Applications Release 12.0 for Linux x86 Rapid Install Databases – Disk 3 (7 CD’s)
Oracle Applications Release 12.0 for Linux x86 Rapid Install Databases – Disk 4 (8 CD’s)
Oracle Applications Release 12.0 for Linux x86 Rapid Install Databases – Disk 5 (7 CD’s)
Oracle Applications Release 12.0 for Linux x86 Rapid Install Databases – Disk 6 (2 CD’s)
Oracle Applications Release 12.0 for Linux x86 Rapid Install Databases – Disk 7 (7 CD’s)
Oracle Applications Release 12.0 for Linux x86 Rapid Install Databases – Disk 8 (2 CD’s)
Oracle Applications Release 12.0 for Linux x86 Rapid Install Tools – Disk 1 (3 CD’s)
Oracle Applications Release 12.0 for Linux x86 Rapid Install APPL_TOP – Disk 1 (6 CD’s) Oracle Applications Release 12.0 for Linux x86 Rapid Install APPL_TOP – Disk 2 (1 CD)

Oracle Apps R12 Installation Document
Next thing you need is Oracle Apps R12 Installation Guide which is available at http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B34956_01/current/acrobat/120oaig.pdf

What should I do if I don’t have Linux Operating system as well ?
If you don’t have Linux O.S. you can install it on any other operating system (CD’s mentioned above are for linux download according to your O.S. ). If you are curious to install it on Linux you can download linux from http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux

Do I need to Install any other software before Oracle Apps R12 Installation ?
On Unix/Linux you don’t need to install any other software (You should have all required o.s. packages as mentioned in above installation guide) but as you don’t need to install JDK prior to Apps R12 install (with 11i you have to install JDK prior to installing Apps)
For windows you still need other software like mks toolkit (cygwin my recommendation for test server), VC++

User & Mount point/File system
I will recommend two user install (one for database tier & another for middle tier also called as application tier) Though you can install both database tier & application tier under same operating system user. For Vision Instance you need around 161 GB (133GB for database & 28 GB for application tier) space . For instance without dummy data you need 73 GB space (45GB DB & 28GB application tier)

CPU & RAM
For testing Installation you can try as low as single CPU (1.6 GHz) and 1GB RAM (This was spec of my laptop where I installed for testing purpose, You can try with low configuration as well)

Staging Area

Its good idea to create staging area using script adautostg.pl available in Start Here CD. Refer to Page 30 of above Installation Guide. Advantage with staging area is that after start CD you don’t have to manually insert CD’s and Installer will automatically pick next CD from staging Area. You can pass on configuration setting on first 3-4 screens & once installer starts you can sleep & next day morning you can see complete installation. In case of any failure or subsequent installations (If you have to install more than one Instance its always better to install using Staging Area)

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209 comments
Firas says March 1, 2007

Hi,

I’m installing now R12 on linux redhat 4 machine. i have enough space (175GB FREE). I ran the RapidWiz and it was interrupted. When i checked the log it looks like this
<<
Enter the location of the CD labeled Oracle Applications Rapid Install – Databases Disk 1 :

Checking Disk contents in – /mnt/temp/StageR12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz
Checking Disk contents in – /mnt/temp/StageR12/oraAppDB/Disk1
Checking Disk contents in – /mnt/temp/StageR12/oraAppDB/Disk1

Unzip Count:195

Processing Disk1….
….2..3.4….10

Processing Disk11….

Unzip Failed:

Unable to complete install of database
>>

When i checked Disk11 in the stage area, it has many zip files. I did UNZIP -T to test the zip files and i found this corrupted one:

–> unzip -t data_dat1172.zip
Archive: data_dat1172.zip
testing:
tx_data51.dbf bad CRC
50fdc778 (should be defcddda)
At least one error was
detected in data_dat1172.zip.
!!!!

Zip tool version is: UnZip 5.51

I’m trying to replace it by the same file from the original DVDs but couldn’t dind it. Should I manage to unzip it manually? If yes, will it work ?

Appreciate your help
Firas

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Atul Kumar says March 2, 2007

Firas,
From where you staged CD ? (downloaded or from Oracle’s DVD pack) source or while staging zip might be corrupted . Unzip manually or download this CD again from edelivery

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Firas says March 2, 2007

Hi Atul,
I created the Stage area from DVDs pack from Oracle.

i tried to unzip the file manually, it created the file but is it a valid one as when i tested the zip file (post above) I gor a BAD CRC problem ??
Could i keep the current stage area and change only the oraAppDB/Disk11 ?? How ??

Please advise
Thanks
Firas

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Firas says March 2, 2007

Hi again,

Actually i have unzipped the file manually and the rapidwiz continued. Now when it reached the post-install checks screen, there was a problem in the database availability. When i tried to open the database, i got this error im alert.log:

ORA-00202: control file: ‘/u01/oracler12/db/apps_st/data/cntrl01.dbf’
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 3
Fri Mar 2 23:20:02 2007
ORA-205 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE MOUNT…

I really can’t find the control files in the data directory or anywhere!!!

Now i’m doing egrep to fetch the stage area zip files and get them from there. Is that OK?

Any ideas?
Please advise.

Thanks a lot in advance
Firas
Any ideas

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Atul Kumar says March 3, 2007

Firas,
This should not be the case , I did installation after downloading CD’s from edelivery & it went smooth . You can try copying cntrol file from staging area.

Make sure your prereq. steps are done & you have required zip & other operating system RPM’s

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Firas says March 3, 2007

Hi Atul,

Thanks for taking time to reply.

I have done all the pre-steps required. Anyway i’ll double check and see. Then i will update this post

Thanks a lot
Firas

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Firas says March 3, 2007

Hi Atul,

Actually i downloaded all required rpms but when i tried to install them. It failed ( Install and upgrade as well) because of conflict with old ones.

Please notice that i have Vision 11.5.10.2 Vision on this server too. Now all old vision processes including DB are down to install R12.

Anyway, it seems that one of the files in the DVDs is corrupted. That’s why i started staging again using new DVDs pack. Of course i have to clean and restart as you said. Hopefully it will work.

Appreciate your help Atul.

Regards
Firas

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Naveen says March 5, 2007

Hi Atul/All,
I hav an assignment wherein i have to make a report on the problems we could face when we install Oracle Apps single node multi installation(say 3) on a single server. Example we can have problems when we have to login using the same userid unlike unix where we can set bash profile.Would expect some response soon
Thanks
Naveen
AppsDBA

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Jayjit says March 7, 2007

Hi,
Can you suggest which is the best disk partion for Oracle Apps 12i? RAID5, RAID1+0 or keep raw disk and configure Oracle Automatic Storage Management?

Thanks.

Jayjit

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Jayjit says March 7, 2007

Hi,
I like to install Oracle E-business suite 12i. I have 4 146 GB HDD.
Please suggest the best disk management for this.
RAID5, RAID1+0 or keep the raw HDD and configure Oracle Automatic Storage Management.
Thanks.

– Jayjit

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Anonymous says March 16, 2007

Hi Atul,

My Qn:
Regarding R12 installation:
In the PC first you installed Windows-Vista, then installed VMware so it become virtual-machine, then you installed LINUX under the Virtual-machine, then R12 installed under LINUX.

Could you tell me this system is become dual-booting?

When we start the system, is it wait for to select Win or Linux, or Virtual Machine?

Also,
Why you installed R12 under VMware? Is it for RAC environment?

Thanks and Regards,

Jo.

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Anonymous says March 16, 2007

Hi Atul,

My Qn:
Regarding R12 installation:
In the PC first you installed Windows-Vista, then installed VMware so it become virtual-machine, then you installed LINUX under the Virtual-machine, then R12 installed under LINUX.

Could you tell me this system is become dual-booting?

When we start the system, is it wait for to select Win or Linux, or Virtual Machine?

Also,
Why you installed R12 under VMware? Is it for RAC environment?

Thanks and Regards,

Jo.

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Atul Kumar says March 17, 2007

Jo,
I installed VMWare on top of windows operating system & in windows operation system using VMware I created a linux virtual machine (So this is not dual boot) Boot is single only i.e. Windows. each time I start my machine on windows then start VMware software from programs on windws & then start linux machine on this VM software . Advantage of installing this way is that I got windows & linux at same time & I prefer apps on linux

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Anonymous says March 26, 2007

Thanks Adul for the answer.

Regards,
Jo.

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Nicholas_muratha says March 30, 2007

Hi Kumar.

I have installed apps 12 on my laptop using external hard disk as u explained.

I have laptop 1 => windows vista (internal HDD) => VM Ware (internal HDD) = > linux 32 (external HDD) => apps R12 (external HDD).

I have laptop 2 => windows vista (internal HDD) => VM Ware (internal HDD).

1.Can I use my External HDD to run apps 12 using my Laptop 2?

OR

2.If I plug my External HDD onto another Laptop with VM Ware will it work? If YES what configurations are required?

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Atul Kumar says March 30, 2007

Yes you can provided you copy virtual linux server configuration file & virtual disk (If any of this is on laptop1)

If virtual server configuration file and harddisk file are on external hard disk then connect HDD to laptop 2 and then create linux virtual machine on laptop 2 using configuration file created on laptop 1 .

For more info check VMware site on how to move virtual machine across server

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Prashanth says April 18, 2007

Hi Atul,

I come to know new and good technical things today…Thanks for posting

Regards
Prashanth
Apps DBA – IBM Global services

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Mahesh says May 11, 2007

HI Atul…
My R12 installation(in linux ver3) was successfull.After the installation i was able to up the listner n database but i encountered “STATUS 4” while trying to up the “APPLICATION(adstrall.sh)”…And cos of this am not able to up the forms on the frontend..

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Atul Kumar says May 11, 2007

Mahesh,
In R12 services are started and stopped using opmn on apps tier. Check log files to see which script/component failed and error message associated with that .

Some solution or help from others can be obtained from forum at http://teachmeoracle.com/forum

Atul

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Mahesh says May 15, 2007

Hi Atul…
Now the STATUS 4 error(in Appli Tier) is solved but still facing the same prob… ” FRONTEND THE FORMS ARE NOT OPENING (But Web based icons are opening)”…
Is it cos i made any mistake while applying the O.S patch(linux 3)??

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Atul Kumar says May 15, 2007

Was installation successful ?

Can you start forms server ?

Is forms server Up ?

Kindly raise any questions / issues in http://teachMeOracle.com/forum

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Anonymous says June 13, 2007

Two useful Metalink notes about prerequisites…
394692.1 Oracle Applications Documentation Resources, Release 12
416305.1 Oracle Applications Installation and Upgrade Notes Release 12 (12.0) for Linux (64-bit)
Bye

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Anonymous says June 16, 2007

Do i need to set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL = 2.4.19 for installing Oracle EBS R12 also?

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Claudio says June 25, 2007

Hi all!

Stupid Question: if I install the whole “stuff” with the base directory in an external USB disk of my Linux box am I able to use it in another Linux box without further install?

In other words, does the installation remains confined ONLY in the BASE directory?

Many Thanks!

Claudio Montanari.
claudio.montanari@know-how.it

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Atul Kumar says June 25, 2007

It will work as long as this is on virtual and virtaul linux machine is installed on external hard disk.

If this is actual machine with apps install on external hard disk it may not work when attaching it to other machine because of hostname and various other reason

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a says July 7, 2007

Hi
I gust need to see the result of
fdisk -l , and df on your linux machine
can i ask what you can see on the external usb hard from windows??
thanks in advance,

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Anonymous says July 21, 2007

Hi Atul, Pre install check is successful while i’m installing R12 on linux X86. But post installation checks not starting http , virtual dir, login page, help. Error: RW-50015: Error: – HTTP Listener is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the service and use the retry button.

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Atul Kumar says July 22, 2007

I have seen this on my instance as well few times and in most of cases this happens if memory on your system is less as darabase SGA itself is 1 GB then memory is required for various other processes so no need to worry either increase memory on system or reduce sga and memory of various other components and try accessing apps http://host.domain:port (8000 for 0 port pool)

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kiyas says August 15, 2007

Hi,
I am registering host in OAM if I want to access application running in my other machine and would like to know is there a way to give access to all the computers in that network ?

Thanks
Kiyas

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sanket says November 12, 2007

what is costum product.how can we create this ?

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Mvenu says December 19, 2007

How to find the apps Password in oracle appslications 12i.

Thanks,MVenu

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Atul Kumar says December 19, 2007

Venu,
I don’t think there is a way to find apps password in R12/12i but you can reset it using FNDCPASS as done in 11i

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madatanapalli says December 21, 2007

post install fails in oracle apps r12 installtion plz help

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Atul says December 22, 2007

Your startup of Apps Might have failed, check log files or startup script and also check if you have sufficient memory (around 2 GB)

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Gangadhar says December 28, 2007

I have installed the App’s, finally I did not see post install screen, please help me should I need to restart?.

And I am not able to configure the VMware tools due to location C header files please let me know where I can get those

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taj says December 31, 2007

Have you tried installing R12 on Oracle VM, if so could you please post the notes?

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Atul says December 31, 2007

Taj,
Step for installing R12 on vm remains same as installing on normal machine.
You have to first install VMware server & on that virtual linux on that linux install R12 .

Steps to install VMware and linux on that VMWare are at http://onlineappsdba.com/index.php/2007/03/03/installing-vmware-linux-for-oracle-apps-r12-preparation/

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Kiran says February 6, 2008

Hi,
Iam installaing the Oracle application Release 12 (Fresh Install) on AIX Env.I ddin,t see the step where we give path of oraInventory

Whereas for Vision I did see the oraInventory Path

Pls let me know

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Atul says February 7, 2008

Yes kiran, by default R12 installs oraInventory in /etc/oraInventory in linux and /var/opt/oracle/oraInventory in solaris and hopefully same location in AIX (not sure kindly check)

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Tom says February 9, 2008

Atul

I’m planning to install R12 on my vista laptop; I have 2 questions and would appreciate your expert opinion:

In a post on why you were installing R12 on vmware you said you preferred your instance on linux; Is it also because R12 is not compatible with Vista? It it is i’d like to install directly on Vista…..

Second, while trying to research the hard drive you mentioned, the “Western Digital WDG1C5000N My Book Premium Edition 500 GB USB 2.0/Firewire External Hard Drive” product details on Amazon say it is compatible with Windows 2000/XP – no mention of vista; And I’ve been seeing a lot of negative reviews of the WD 500G firewire product – Cnet is saying the write speeds are pretty low. Finally on Vista groups i have also been seeing some bugs with vista and firewire. How was your hard drive performance… At this point would you still recommend the product or suggest a newer product. WOuld you still recommend a firewire drive?

Many Thanks
Tom

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Atul says February 10, 2008

Tom,
I prefer linux because for windows you need gnu make, VC++ plus other software moreover it is not certified on vista.

Installation on vmware is slow so I’ll not recommend to install on VM image. Try on direct linux or windows instead of VMware.

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Mvenu says February 19, 2008

Hi,
I am getting the following error while installing the Oracle APplications 12i on Windows 2003 Sp1 , RW – 50010: Error: – Script has returned an error: 2 returning – 0.
My preinstallation checks were passed successfully , after it is running bootstrap.cmd file completed 33% and suddenly completing the 100% by throwing out that error in the log of temp.
Please advice to resolve this.

Thanks, MVenu

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N Kumar says March 6, 2008

Hi Atul/any one who reads this

I am installing REL 12 on Red hat linux ES.
I created the DVDS. I am in the process of creating the staging area.

When i run the perl program
i.e
perl /…./complete_path/adautostg.pl

a new window opens and says this

xterm: Can’t execvp /tmp/staging/adautostg.pl: Permission denied

Can you please help me get out of this situation

Thanks,
NKumar

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kguettaoui says June 7, 2008

Hi;
I have the same problem with Mvenu said to install R12 in windows
Are you reponse?
Help me please

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Atul says June 9, 2008

Venu & kguettaoui

How you cerated stagign area ? I am not sure if metalink note 341204.1 Rapidwiz Version: 11.5.10.35 Exit Installation at 30%, on Bootstrap.Cmd is valid but its worth checking

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sri says June 17, 2008

Atul,

I’m very new to Apps. I installed oracle R12 on my linux machine successfully. I could access the vision db and login.

Unlike oracle database I didn’t set my .bash_profile; I am not quite sure about my $ORACLE_HOME, OAD_TOP paths. could you please help if i can see those paths from some file or if there is some way?

thankyou – sri

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Saurabh says June 24, 2008

Hi Atul,

As per the steps mentioned by you I hv downloaded and install the VMware and DVDs from Oracle eDelivery for R12.

Can you plz guide me how can I move the DVDs from windows (where I have downloaded the Oracle DVDs) to VMware RedHat Linux?

I’m unable to FTP it. I’m not able to do the staging because of it.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Saurabh

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Atul says June 24, 2008

Nice Question Saurabh,
Right now I burn downloaded zip files in to DVD/CD and read that CD/DVD from VMware machine.

I am looking for solution to read file system installed on main operating system from guest (vmware) operating system. If I can find solution I’ll post on site, in mean time check vmware documentation at

http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/server_pubs.html

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Sauarbh says June 25, 2008

Hi Atul,

Burning DVDs is a cumbersome task. I tried using NERO to burn the image of the DVD in the downloaded sequence n used the same from VMware. It worked fine in case of autostage.pl but instead of that I was just thinking of FTPing the downloads in the structured manner.

My WSFTP worked after I installed the packages from Oracle Enterprise Linux CDs (i’m using OEL5, it’s same as RHEL4)

I hope this will also work.

Regards,
Saurabh

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Kiran says July 29, 2008

Atul,
We are installing the 12.0.4 Vision on our AIX Server and installation is Single Node.. We are getting the following post install issues..

======================================
RW-50015: Error: – HTTP Listener is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the s
ervice and use the retry button.
Help Page
———-
============================================
RW-50015: Error: – Help Page is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the servi
ce and use the retry button.
Virtual Directory
=============================================
RW-50015: Error: – JSP is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the service and
use the retry button.
Login Page
============================================
Can you please update me with expert advise

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Atul says July 29, 2008

Kiran,
This error message is not enough. Check installatio log file and service startup logs.

Services Startup logs are at
$INST_TOP/apps/CONTEXT_NAME/logs/appl/admin/log/
or
$LOG_HOME/appl/admin/log

also at
$LOG_HOME/ora/10.1.3/opmn

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Kiran says July 29, 2008

Thanks Atul, Here goes info you have requested

The below error is from opmnctl.txt
============================
=======================================
7/29/08-10:13:02 :: adopmnctl.sh version 120.4.12000000.3

07/29/08-10:13:02 :: adopmnctl.sh: Stopping Oracle
Process Manager (OPMN) and the managed processes

/u01/app02/inst/apps/FNV0_usclswu028
/ora/10.1.3/opmn/bin/opmnctl[31]: unlimited: 0403-009 The specified
number is not valid for this command.
opmnctl: opmn is not running.

07/29/08-10:13:03 :: adopmnctl.sh: exiting with status 0

=====================================
======================================

The below error from 10.1.3/ opmn/logs

8/07/29 07:59:43 [ons-internal] ONS server initiated
08/07/29 07:59:43 [pm-internal] PM state directory exists:
/u01/app02/apps/tech_st/10.1.3/opmn/logs/states
08/07/29 07:59:43 [pm-internal] OPMN server ready.
Request handling enabled.
08/07/29 07:59:43 [ons-listener] 172.31.208.45,17007:
BIND (Can’t assign requested address)
08/07/29 10:08:42 [ons-internal] ONS server initiated
08/07/29 10:08:42 [pm-internal] PM state directory exists:

/u01/app02/apps/tech_st/10.1.3/opmn/logs/states
08/07/29 10:08:42 [pm-internal] OPMN server ready. Request handling enabled.
08/07/29 10:08:42 [ons-listener] 172.31.208.45,
17007: BIND (Can’t assign requested address)
===================
============================

07/29/08-10:20:29 :: adapcctl.sh version 120.6.12000000.2
07/29/08-10:20:29 :: adapcctl.sh: starting OPMN if it is not running

/u01/app02/inst/apps/FNV0_usclswu028/ora/10.1.3/opmn/bin/opmnctl[31]:
unlimited: 0403-009 The specified number is not valid for this command.
opmnctl: opmn start failed.

07/29/08-10:20:36 :: adapcctl.sh: OPMN is not running
and OPMN start attempt failed

07/29/08-10:20:36 :: adapcctl.sh: Could not start
OPMN managed OHS instance

07/29/08-10:20:36 :: adapcctl.sh: exiting with status 2

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Atul says July 30, 2008

Kiran,
Now you know error message
“/ora/10.1.3/opmn/bin/opmnctl[31]: unlimited: 0403-009 The specified”

so check hits for similar error message like “opmnctl unlimited 0403-009” in metalink.

I think this can be related to ulimit.

Check if you did all prereq for R12 installation.

If you still can’t resolve issue raise it in forum http://teachMeOracle.com/forum dedicated to Apps DBA’s

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Amr Rizk says August 13, 2008

we face error during installing R12 on AIX5L
RW-50015: Error: – HTTP Listener is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the s
ervice and use the retry button.
Help Page
———-
============================================
RW-50015: Error: – Help Page is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the servi
ce and use the retry button.
Virtual Directory
=============================================
RW-50015: Error: – JSP is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the service and
use the retry button.
Login Page

we are not able to start opmn services

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Amr Rizk says August 13, 2008

Hi Atul

can you please help me in order to solve this issue.
we face issue exactly faced by Mr.Kiran Said while installing R12 on AIX 5.3 TL 6
or if you can send me any contact number for Mr.Kiran Said so i can check with him .

thanks and regards

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Atul says August 13, 2008

Amr,
We can’t reveal Kiran’s contact detail because of security reasons.

Check metalink note # 555406.1 What is the Significance of Error Message Opmnctl[20]: Unlimited: 0403-009?

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Amr Rizk says August 13, 2008

Dear Atul
thanks for your update.can you please help me how to solve this issue .while starting opmnctl post installation steps in R12 . we received this error
“RW-50015: Error: – HTTP Listener is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the service and use the retry button.”

when i searched in opmn log files using path
“/u03/oracle/TEST/inst/apps/TEST_nmcebs01/logs/appl/admin/log”
we found file adopmnctl.txt and here’s detailed output from adopmnctl.txt

“Communication error with the OPMN server local port.
Check the OPMN log files”.
opmnctl: opmn start failed.

these words is repeated many times and installation R12 had been failed

please help
thanks and regards

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Atul says August 14, 2008

Amr Rizk,
Did you look at metalink note I suggested above ?

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Amr Rizk says August 14, 2008

Dear Atul
yes i look at it and i followed it. now we got new error message while trying to start opmn processes .
“Communication error with the OPMN server local port.
Check the OPMN log files”.
opmnctl: opmn start failed.

this error is not related to note you mentioned.its new error in opmn log files .

so please help me regarding this issue

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Atul says August 14, 2008

Good, so you are a step further.

This message is not enough to debug. Check error message in opmn.log (there should be two opmn, one for 1012 & other for 1013) look for opmn.log in 1013

Also check if DB & DB listener is Up

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Amr Rizk says August 15, 2008

Dear Atul
thank you for you help.
i checked opmn.log in 1013 as per your request.i found this error
“08/08/13 22:53:45 [ons-connect] Local connection 127.0.0.1,17006 invalid form factor”. then i tried to compare ports located in two conf files 1-opmn.xml and 2-ons.conf
i did not find any ons.conf located in 1013 only located in 1012 home “./apps/tech_st/10.1.2/opmn/conf/ons.conf”
when i opened this file ons.conf here’s output

$ more ./apps/tech_st/10.1.2/opmn/conf/ons.conf
nodes=appaix02.us.oracle.com:15007
our server name is nmcebs01 and port used in opmn.xml “17006”

its fresh installation on AIX server and we never name it as appaix02
so please help me

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Amr Rizk says August 15, 2008

Dear Atul
i searched for same cases in metalink with no use . noone face this error during installation for R12 . so if you can help me you will much appearciated

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Atul says August 15, 2008

Well ons.conf is no more in use from 10.1.3 . I have seen this error “invalid form factor” in past but that was for stand alone 10g Application Server.

To move furter

1. Confirm that Database & Database listener for r12 is up

2. Then shutdown all services on middle tier R12 (adstpall.sh)

3. Clear log files from log directory

4. Start middle tier services R12 (adstrtal.sh)

5. Check logs again

Now raise it in forum http://teachMeOracle.com/forum with error message in log file.

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opsdba says September 22, 2008

Hi Atul

I was successes install R12 with OEL5 on my laptop, but for Linux browser’s plug-in process couldn’t get correct install, so I still can not open up form sessions on R12. please help me get this right.
Thanks.

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gowri says October 19, 2008

Hello

I am trying to install R12 on a linux machine(ubuntu). I staged everything in a stage folder and tried to start the installation. But rapidwiz is not coming up with GUI windows ?? What could be the issue. I can start my xterm directly from my my linux terminal without any issue.

Thanks.

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Atul Kumar says October 20, 2008

Is there any error message ?
Check under /tmp

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gowri says October 20, 2008

Thanks for the response Atul.
I did check that but I don’t see any error message. I will try to look once again. No error message displayed on the screen. I did put some debug messages in the script. And all checks are passed and it is going upto invoking JAVACMD line in the runWizard.sh script. I am running without WAIT so I am getting the control back immediately. Even I tried with -waitforreturn argument also but it is waiting for ever and no GUI cameup.

Thanks.

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gowri says October 21, 2008

I tried to kick off the installation again. But it is behaving in the same way. I see a directory got created under /tmp/hsperfdata_oracle and a file under this.

B/java.property.java.vm.infomixed modeX#B4java.p
roperty.java.library.path/home/rel12stage/StageR12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz
/jre/Linux/1.5.0/lib/i386/client:
/home/rel12stage/StageR12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/jre/Linux/1.5
.0/lib/i386:/home/rel12stage/StageR12/startCD/Disk1/rap
idwiz/jre/Linux/1.5.0/../lib/i386:/home/r
el12stage/StB2java.property.java.class.path/home/rel
12stage/StageR12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/jl
ib/java:/home/rel12stage/StageR12/startCD/Disk1/rapid
wiz/jlib/ewt-3_4_22.jar:/home/rel12stage
/StageR12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/jlib/share-1_1_18.ja
r:/home/rel12stage/StageR12/startCD/Disk1
/rapidwiz/jlib/jnls.jar:/home/rel12stage/Stag
eR12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/jlib/ACC.JAR:/home/rel1
2stage/StageR12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/jlib/
netcfg.jar:/home/rel12stage/StageR12/startCD/Disk1
/rapidwiz/jlib/ojdbc14.jar:/home/rel12stage/
StageR12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/jlib/xmlparserv2.zipN
B5java.property.java.endorsed.dirs/home/r
el12stage/StageR12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/jre/Linux/
1.5.0/lib/endorsedIB0java.property.java.ext
.dirs/home/rel12stage/StageR12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz
/jre/Linux/1.5.0/lib/extpAB,java.property.
java.home/home/rel12stage/StageR12/startCD/Disk1/
rapidwiz/jre/Linux/1.5.0`$B5sun.property.s
un.boot.class.path/home/rel12stage/StageR12/startCD/
Disk1/rapidwiz/jre/Linux/1.5.0/lib/rt.jar:/
home/rel12stage/StageR12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/jre
/Linux/1.5.0/lib/i18n.jar:/home/rel12stage/S
tageR12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/jre/Linux/1.5.0/lib/sunrsa
sign.jar:/home/rel12stage/StageR12/star
tCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/jre/Linux/1.5.0/lib/jsse.jar:/home
/rel12stage/StageR12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/
jre/Linux/1.5.0/lib/jce.jar:/home/rel12stage/StageR12/
startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/jre/Linux/1.5.0/lib/c
harsets.jar:/home/rel12stage/StageR12/startCD/Disk1/
rapidwiz/jre/Linux/1.5.0/classesJB7sun.prop
erty.sun.boot.library.path/home/rel12stage/StageR12/
startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/jre/Linux/1.5.0/lib/i3
86(B$java.rt.vmFlags(B#java.rt.vmArgsH!B’sun.rt.jav
aCommandoracle.apps.ad.rapidwiz.RIWizard°B
+sun.rt.internalVersionJava HotSpot(TM) Client VM
(1.5.0_05-b05) for linux-x86, built on Aug 26 2
005 16:24:31 by java_re with gcc 3.2.1-7a (
J2SE release)0J(sun.os.hrt.ticks÷ØÃ

This file is keep getting updated but I don’t see anything happeneing.

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Atul Kumar says October 22, 2008

Where is DISPLAY pointing to ?

Can you run xclock and see clock ?

You should see directory like /tmp/MMDDHHSS like for 22 oct 19:11

/tmp/10221911

Is that directory available on Unix/Linux ?

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gowri says October 23, 2008

I tried xclock and I can see the clock coming up on my desktop to where my display pointing to. I see the directory under /tmp but the timestamp directory got created under /tmp/hsperfdata_oracle. When I killed the install session this directory also gone.

Thanks.

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mkumar183 says November 3, 2008

Hi,
I installed R12 on Linux Oracle Enterprise 5 on VMware. I did it successfully except that post installation checks failed. HTTP and few other checks failed. After reading some articles it suggested to install some rpms on the Linux. I did that. But now when type
rapidwiz -restart it asks for a configuration file. If i provide servername.domain.VIS:port then it says cannot read from database. And i dont know where the configuration file is. Can you pls help me understand how can i restart rapidwiz and check if post installation checks are successfull or not.

Thanks

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Atul says November 4, 2008

Configuration file should be there in format SID_hostname.txt in /tmp and database ORACLE_HOME directory.

so select full path of that directory. If you can’t find that file update here with hostname & SID (used in first attempt) and I’ll give you exact location.

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mkumar183 says November 4, 2008

Hi Atul,

Thanks much for your help. I actually found it in /tmp/10260341/conf_VIS.txt .. there is no file by name VIS_localhost.txt in the entire machine i did a find. All files are VIS_localhost.xml. which rapidwiz does not read. But i have provided this file as conf file and rapidwiz has restarted the installation. Will get back to you if need help. Thanks for your help onthis.

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mkumar183 says November 4, 2008

Hi Atul,

I got following errors. Can u pls help.

HTTP
—–
checking URL = http://localhost.localdomain:8000

RW-50015: Error: – HTTP Listener is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the service and use the retry button.
Help Page

———-

checking URL = http://localhost.localdomain:8000/OA_HTML/help

RW-50015: Error: – Help Page is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the service and use the retry button.
Virtual Directory

——————

RW-50015: Error: – Http Server Virtual Directories is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the service and use the retry button.
JSP

—-

checking URL = http://localhost.localdomain:8000/OA_HTML/jtfTestCookie.jsp

RW-50015: Error: – JSP is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the service and use the retry button.
Login Page

———–

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mkumar183 says November 4, 2008

HTTP

—–

checking URL = http://localhost.localdomain:8000

RW-50015: Error: – HTTP Listener is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the service and use the retry button.
Help Page

———-

checking URL = http://localhost.localdomain:8000/OA_HTML/help

RW-50015: Error: – Help Page is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the service and use the retry button.
Virtual Directory

——————

RW-50015: Error: – Http Server Virtual Directories is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the service and use the retry button.
JSP

—-

checking URL = http://localhost.localdomain:8000/OA_HTML/jtfTestCookie.jsp

RW-50015: Error: – JSP is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the service and use the retry button.
Login Page

———–

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mkumar183 says November 4, 2008

test

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Naveed says December 28, 2008

Hi Atul,

I ordered media pack for Oracle Application R12 for Linux (32 bit) from Oracle. I did the staging successfully. While running the rapidwiz, all my system checks were successfull. But while doing installation in very 1st step – I got the following error:

Checking Disk contents in – /oracle12/StageR12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz
Checking Disk contents in – /oracle12/StageR12/oraDB/Disk1
Checking Disk contents in – /oracle12/StageR12/oraDB/Disk1

Unzip Count:137

Processing Disk1….

Unzip Failed:

Cannot execute Install for database ORACLE_HOME

….

Please provide me your valuable suggestions to resolve the issue.

Thanks
Naveed

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mrabalaji says January 19, 2009

Hi,

i have issue with my R11i installation i have virtual box on vista 64 home premium and i have installed winxp professional as host machine and when i start rapid install the installer goes to 33% and then to 100% and vanishes pls help

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amit_kale says January 24, 2009

Hi Atul,

I am trying to install Linux on VMWare on my Dell Laptop. While installing I am getting following error “An error occured – no vallid devices were found on which to create new file systems. Please check hardware for this cause of thie problem. ”

I did not get correct pointers to resolve except for it might be related to the type of hard drive which SCSI in my case.

I am using 64-bit installation.

Please let me know if you have an idea on this as I am unable to proceed with R12 installation.

Thanks,
Amit

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Atul Kumar says January 25, 2009

Amit,
Which vmware version you are using ?

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amit_kale says January 25, 2009

Hi Atul,

I am using VMWare workstation version 6.5.1 build – 126130

Thanks
Amit

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kiran says February 15, 2009

for installation R12 on Linux 4, Copied R12 stage from windows machine to Linux (installed on Vmware). When tried to run ./rapidwiz getting error
:bad interpreter: No such file or directory

what is casue? How to resolve this?

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Anandha says March 10, 2009

RW-50010 Error while installing

Steps followed for creating the staging

1) Downloaded the necessary zip files from oracle edelivery
2) Did an scp from windows box to linux box using winscp
3) Copied the files to a location like say /root/binaries
4) Unzipped the files under this location and created the staging area – things are fine so far
5) started the rapidwiz to install – got the following error

RW-50010: Error: – script has returned an error: 126
RW-50004: Error code received when running external process. Check log file for
details.
Running Database Install Driver for PROD instance
with some permission denied error

6) checked all permissions as the error says permission error

– checked to see if we are running RapidWiz as root user
– checked to see if write/read permission on the Stage area (chmod -R 777 Stage r12)
– checked to see applmgr and oracle users are members of group “dba”
– checked to see if Group “dba” is the “default” group for the applmgr and oracle users
– checked to see if The target directory (where you install the application/database) permission is set properly
– checked to see if the “group owner” of the target directory is changed from “root” to “dba”

everything is fine – still getting the same error

now the solution (guess that is how adautostg.pl script builds up the staging structure)

solved problem…Let me explain what i did:

My stage folder was under “/root” directory…
i just used mv command and copied it under “/” and problem is solved!

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kiran says March 10, 2009

While copy from Windows to Linux I used cp command than copy-paste.It workout.

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Sujith says March 31, 2009

Can anyone share the preinstalled VM image for R12 please?

It would be great if you guys can share it using torrent/ any similar method to ensure that we can download it unattended.

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Muthu says April 7, 2009

Hello Atul,
I think posted my installation error in a wrong page. Thus posting it again.
I am trying to get the pre requesite RPMs installed in OEL 5.3 for R12 installation as per the metalink note but I am getting the following error. Can you please tell me how to resolve these RPM issue. will be of a great help.
**************************************
[root@amk failed]# rpm cpp-4.1.2-44.el5.i386.rpm -i
warning: cpp-4.1.2-44.el5.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e8562897
package cpp-4.1.2-44.el5.i386 is already installed
file /usr/bin/cpp from install of cpp-4.1.2-44.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package cpp-4.1.2-44.el5.i386
file /usr/libexec/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.1/cc1 from install of cpp-4.1.2-44.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package cpp-4.1.2-44.el5.i386
file /usr/share/man/man1/cpp.1.gz from install of cpp-4.1.2-44.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package cpp-4.1.2-44.el5.i386

***********************************************
[root@amk failed]# rpm gcc-4.1.2-14.el5.i386.rpm -i
warning: gcc-4.1.2-14.el5.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a7048f8d
error: Failed dependencies:
cpp = 4.1.2-14.el5 is needed by gcc-4.1.2-14.el5.i386
libgomp = 4.1.2-14.el5 is needed by gcc-4.1.2-14.el5.i386
****************************************************
[root@amk failed]# rpm gcc-c++-4.1.2-14.el5.i386.rpm -i
warning: gcc-c++-4.1.2-14.el5.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a7048f8d
error: Failed dependencies:
gcc = 4.1.2-14.el5 is needed by gcc-c++-4.1.2-14.el5.i386
libstdc++ = 4.1.2-14.el5 is needed by gcc-c++-4.1.2-14.el5.i386
libstdc++-devel = 4.1.2-14.el5 is needed by gcc-c++-4.1.2-14.el5.i386
*******************************************************
[root@amk failed]# rpm libstdc++-devel-4.1.2-14.el5.i386.rpm -i
warning: libstdc++-devel-4.1.2-14.el5.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a7048f8d
error: Failed dependencies:
libstdc++ = 4.1.2-14.el5 is needed by libstdc++-devel-4.1.2-14.el5.i386

*********************************************************
[root@amk unable to open]# rpm glibc-devel-2.5-12.i386.rpm -i
warning: glibc-devel-2.5-12.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 82fd17b2
error: Failed dependencies:
glibc = 2.5-12 is needed by glibc-devel-2.5-12.i386
glibc-headers = 2.5-12 is needed by glibc-devel-2.5-12.i386

*************************************************
[root@amk unable to open]# rpm glibc-2.8-3.i386.rpm -i
warning: glibc-2.8-3.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
error: Failed dependencies:
glibc-common = 2.8-3 is needed by glibc-2.8-3.i386
glibc > 2.5 conflicts with glibc-common-2.5-34.i386
[root@amk unable to open]# rpm glibc-devel-2.5-12.i386.rpm -i
warning: glibc-devel-2.5-12.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 82fd17b2
error: Failed dependencies:
glibc = 2.5-12 is needed by glibc-devel-2.5-12.i386
glibc-headers = 2.5-12 is needed by glibc-devel-2.5-12.i386

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Atul Kumar says April 7, 2009

Muthu,
You first need to remove (uninstall) conflicting RPM’s and then install required RPM’s and finally install RPM’s which you uninstalled

option 2: Select all RPM’s at time of OEL5

Option 3: use OEL 4.4 and higher (not 5) and select all RPM’s at time of OEM installation. It worked for me

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Muthu says April 7, 2009

Thanks Atul, I will try the same on

“Enterprise Linux Release 4 Update 7 Media Pack v1 for x86 (32 bit) ”

But during the installation will all RPM be in installation cds itself. I am under the impression that the prescribed RPMs(of Metalink Note: 402310.1) should be downloaded from
RPMsearch.com or google separately and installed.

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Atul Kumar says April 7, 2009

Nope these rpms r part of oel

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Muthu says April 7, 2009

Hello Atul,
I have downloaded Oracle R12 – 12.0.4 for OEL and unzipped in OEL 5 machine(OS) can I use the same unzipped files in installation of OEL 4.7
Can you please confirm.
Thanks
Muthu

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Atul Kumar says April 8, 2009

Muthu as OEL 4 and 5 are binary compatible , its OK to copy unzip files from OEL5 to OEL4.

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Muthu says April 8, 2009

Atul,
Are there any of the following
-OS patches that need to be applied for OEL 4 with update 7?
-Any other RPMs
-Do you I need any pre-install scripts? I saw a post in this forum talking about that. Can you please tell me teh details of it.

Thanks a lot for the prompt responses!!!

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Muthu says April 13, 2009

Hello Atul,
I am getting the following error, when I begin to install R12. I found out that I need to check the server setting but donno how to verify that.
****************************************
RW-20019: No install actions have been found for this machine. Continue on to other uninstalled machines in your configur
ation, or fix the configuration file to correctly call out this machine.
****************************************

please let me know, how to proceed where I am going wrong.

Thanks
Muthu

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Muthu says April 15, 2009

I am getting a different error when I restart with and do the mounting . I guess this got fixed after I changed the domain name in the host file

The new error is RW00000 some access issue is coming though complete access is there to that folder.
———————————————-
RW-00000: Unable to write to the following directory. Please check for the permissions.
——————————————

Can someone respond please.

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Atul Kumar says April 15, 2009

Muthu,
Is this at time of checks (before start of installation) or after start of installation (1% or more)

If this is before start of installation and at time of install checks then create “inst” directory including subdirectory and change ownership to applmgr (or user for application tier) user

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Pal says April 25, 2009

Hi Atul / All

I am trying to install R12 on linux (SUSE 11 Enterprise) & am stuck with following error for quite some days now; can anybody pls. help

Here are details… I have staged the contents on zip file on to folder called R12 and from there i am trying to run rapidwiz…but getting following error..

===================
oracle@khodiyar:/root/Documents/R12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz> perl rapidwiz

Rapid Install Wizard is validating your file system……
3 dvd labels found

Preparing to start up Rapid Install…

Rapid Install Wizard will now launch the Java Interface…..

If you are performing a DVD/CD install, you must change directories in your
session to a directory outside of the DVD/CD-ROM mount point before
you will be able to eject the DVD/CD and proceed.

rapidwiz: line 311: /tmp/RapidInstall/bin/runWizard.sh: Permission denied
oracle@khodiyar:/root/Documents/R12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz>
=========================

I am logged on using oracle user on system and have given all rights to oracle.

Can any body pls. help….below are the contents of mkStage.log file in tmp folder…..
———————
Staging from CD to the temp area
cp: omitting directory `/root/Documents/R12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/bin’
cp: omitting directory `/root/Documents/R12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/driver’
cp: omitting directory `/root/Documents/R12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/etc’
cp: omitting directory `/root/Documents/R12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/File’
cp: omitting directory `/root/Documents/R12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/images’
cp: omitting directory `/root/Documents/R12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/jlib’
cp: omitting directory `/root/Documents/R12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/jre’
cp: omitting directory `/root/Documents/R12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/oui’
cp: omitting directory `/root/Documents/R12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/template’
cp: omitting directory `/root/Documents/R12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/unzip’
——————-

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Atul Kumar says April 25, 2009

You need to run installer from root account and NOT Oracle account .

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Pal says April 25, 2009

Hi Atul,

Trying to install R12 on linux (SUSE 11 Enterprise)…still stuck =

# I logged using root now and issue rapidwiz command from terminal console, this time i am getting error on line 311

Below is the snapshot of my actions on terminal prompt.
=============================
khodiyar:~/Documents/R12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz # perl rapidwiz

Rapid Install Wizard is validating your file system……
3 dvd labels found

Preparing to start up Rapid Install…

Rapid Install Wizard will now launch the Java Interface…..

rapidwiz: line 311: /tmp/RapidInstall/bin/runWizard.sh: Permission denied

If you are performing a DVD/CD install, you must change directories in your
session to a directory outside of the DVD/CD-ROM mount point before
you will be able to eject the DVD/CD and proceed.

khodiyar:~/Documents/R12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz #
======================
I opened rapidwiz file and found line # 311 is this:
————–
${TEMP}/RapidInstall/bin/runWizard.sh ${TEMP}/RapidInstall TRUE $cmd_line_args &
——————-

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Atul Kumar says April 25, 2009

Try this

cd ~/Documents/R12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz
./rapidwiz

If this is still an issue check file permission for /tmp/RapidInstall/bin/runWizard.sh

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Pal says April 25, 2009

I checked file permission in – /tmp/RapidInstall/bin/runWizard.sh

here is the output of same…
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 4161 2009-04-25 13:20 runWizard.sh

I changed the permission and gave it execute rights as well…now the new permission is…
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4161 2009-04-25 13:20 runWizard.sh

# This file is in /tmp/RapidInstall/bin/

# Now i tried to execute this file from same location, and here is the output…
—————
khodiyar:/tmp/RapidInstall/bin #
khodiyar:/tmp/RapidInstall/bin # ./runWizard
bash: ./runWizard: No such file or directory
khodiyar:/tmp/RapidInstall/bin # ./runWizard.sh
./runWizard.sh: line 135: /tmp/RapidInstall/bin//jre/Linux/1.5.0/bin/java: No such file or directory
./runWizard.sh: line 142: test: =: unary operator expected
khodiyar:/tmp/RapidInstall/bin # runWizard
If ‘runWizard’ is not a typo you can run the following command to lookup the package that contains the binary:
command-not-found runWizard
bash: runWizard: command not found
khodiyar:/tmp/RapidInstall/bin #
————–

Then i deleted RapidInstall folder from tmp location and started the same installation back from my staging area..here is the command…

cd ~/Documents/R12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz
./rapidwiz

# It did the same thing again…

—————
=============================
khodiyar:~/Documents/R12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz # perl rapidwiz

Rapid Install Wizard is validating your file system……
3 dvd labels found

Preparing to start up Rapid Install…

Rapid Install Wizard will now launch the Java Interface…..

rapidwiz: line 311: /tmp/RapidInstall/bin/runWizard.sh: Permission denied

If you are performing a DVD/CD install, you must change directories in your
session to a directory outside of the DVD/CD-ROM mount point before
you will be able to eject the DVD/CD and proceed.

khodiyar:~/Documents/R12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz #
—————-

Then i went to temp folder and found that the file in tmp folder has again same issue…

-rw-r–r– 1 root root 4161 2009-04-25 13:20 runWizard.sh

# I think i am going round…circles…pls..help

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Atul Kumar says April 26, 2009

@Pal, what is umask for root account (umask) ?

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Muthu says April 26, 2009

My RW200019 error was a network problem. The etc/host file was cause of this issue.

Change the ip address from the default one 127.0.1.1 to someother # and follow the same format of ip localhost.locadomain localhost.

ping the address and hostname if both are successfull this problem does not occur

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Muthu says April 26, 2009

hi atul,
Sometimes the file downloaded from edelivery shows all the folders in windows but not in Linux or when I unzip. why does this occur and how can this be avoided.

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natarajan says May 6, 2009

Hello people,

I’m not sure if this is a lame question to ask, are the R12 & 11i installation files free to download from e-delivery? If so is there a fixed time trial period ? I saw that there was some license agreement on the e-delivery site regarding a 30 day trial period or something.
I just need this for learning purposes (Is the VIS instance database also available along with the download ?)

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Atul Kumar says May 7, 2009

@Natarajan,
Yes R12 & 11i downloads are free you need to register once .

Is the VIS instance database also available along with the download ?

Yes, You have option to select fresh database or vision database (default) during install

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kshettar says May 21, 2009

Hi Atul,

I have installed Oracle R12 on my desktop with configuration (2GB, 220GB harddrive). The os is rhel 5. Application is up, however, when I open any form, I get the message, ‘additional plugins are required to display all media’.

For oracle 11i on rhel 4 we used the foll:
#cd /
#rpm -ivh j2sdk1_4_2………rpm
#cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugin
#ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.4…../jre/plugins/i386/ns610_gcc/lib
#cd /apps/viscomn/html/bin
#vi appsweb_VIS.cfg
#
#update to 1.4.2 from 1.4.2_04 at two places
#cd /apps/visappl/fnd/11.5.0/resource
#vi appsweb_VIS_.cfg
#
#update to 1.4.2 from 1.4.2_04 at two places
#restart application services and database.

What change should be made in the above? Please assist.

Regards
Sujatha

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Jack says June 13, 2009

Hi Atul,

I have installed oracle enterprise linux on vmware. While executing the adautostg.pl script for staging, I get the error insufficient space – requires 21gb but has only 11gb space.

The laptop has 300gb hard disk space. But how to increase the space for linux in vmware?

Regards,

Jack

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Atul Kumar says June 13, 2009

@Jack,
Use below steps to add another 250GB disk to virtual machine

1. Shutdown Virtual machine (Linux)
2. Using vmware add another virtual disk of 250GB to virtual machine (Linux)
3. start virtual machine (Linux)
4. fdisk -l to see new disk (it should look like /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc)
5. Format new disk like fdisk /dev/sdb or fdisk /dev/sdc

6. Now use new disk as staging area or installation space for r12

Steps under “Format and Configure Virtual disks ” here http://onlineappsdba.com/index.php/2007/07/12/building-oracle-rac-part-ii-install-virtual-disk-and-network-card/

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Partha says June 25, 2009

Atul
We want to install Oracle EBS 12.1.1 on dual node.
The application server is on RHEL Advanced Server 4 Update (32-bit).
The database Server is on RHEL Advanced Server 4 Update (64-bit).

Please let me know what media should be downloaded from edelivery site. We have two options:

1. Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.1 Media Pack for Linux x86
2. Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.1 Media Pack for Linux x86-64-bit

My doubt is:
1. Whether it is possible to install Linux x86 software on 64 bit machine? If yes, do we need to upgrade the database to 64 bit? How to achieve the same.
2. Is it required that both the nodes are on same level?

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Atul Kumar says June 25, 2009

@ Partha

1. Whether it is possible to install Linux x86 software on 64 bit machine? If yes, do we need to upgrade the database to 64 bit? How to achieve the same.

Yes, its possible to install Linux x86 on 64 bit machine. In my opinion install Linux x86-64 kernel (O.S.) on Database Server and Linux x86 on Middle tier .

Then use 12.1.1 Media Pack for Linux x86-64-bit on Database tier and 12.1.1 Media Pack for Linux x86 on Middle tier .

2. Is it required that both the nodes are on same level?

No, you can run database and middle tier on different instruction set machine . You can also run them in to completely different O.S. like one on Linux and other on Solaris (This is called as split configuration)

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Partha says June 26, 2009

Thanks a lot for the information Atul.
This would certainly help.

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kiran says June 28, 2009

Hi Atual
I tried R12 windows with MKSTOOL kits.
Getting error while pre-install checks
D:\R12WindowsSTAGE\startCD\Disk1\rapidwiz>echo off
‘which’ command is not available. Check MKS installation.
ERRORCODE = 1 ERRORCODE_ENDThe system cannot find the path specified.
‘which’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

RW-50011: Error: – System Utilities Availability test has returned an error: 1

But ‘which’ command is working fine on machine.
example – run command ‘which’

C:\Documents and Settings\kiran>which java

retuned output
C:\DevSuiteHome_2\jdk\jre\bin/java.exe

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Atul Kumar says June 29, 2009

@ Kiran,
Where is mks installaed on windows ?

What location you selected when installer (R12) prompted for mks location ?

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Partha says June 30, 2009

Atul
Could you please provide some reference notes/ links on how to configure ASCP on Oracle Application Release 12.1.1 for single node and multi-node installations?

Thanks

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Partha says July 1, 2009

Atul
To add further to my previous update, we have a source instance is a 11.5.10.2 instance (already in place) and we would like to have our target/ planning instance on 12.1.1 running on the same node. This would be a non-prod installation on a RHEL 4 Linux x86 32-bit server.
Could you please let me know if this setup is really feasible?
If yes, then which all patched we might need to apply on the source and target?

Thank

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Atul Kumar says July 1, 2009

Partha, Check ASCP implementation and users guide at

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B53825_02/current/acrobat/121ascpug.zip

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Muthukumar says July 3, 2009

I am trying to install Oracle Applications R12 on my external hard drive with a direct installation of Linux on my laptop.

I am not sure of the configuration of the Host file. The last time I was trying to install R12 the host file contained “one line” of entry with the hostname and domain name. I ran into the services not starting problem post installation.
I deleted everything and starting it again with a new installation of Linux on my laptop ( stupid move, but did due to frustration)
Since I have a bad history in installation, I want to ask this question – should there be 2 lines or 1 line.
e.g.
2 lines
127.0.0.1 hostname.domain hostname and 127.0.0.1 erp.oracle.com erp

or
1 line
127.0.0.1 erp.oracle.com erp

Atul and Team, would be great if you can through some light on this. As most of us who follow are pure novices and not DBAs. Your answers would be appreciated.

Thanks
Muthukumar

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Muthu says July 3, 2009

I am trying to install Oracle Applications R12 on my external hard drive with a direct installation of Linux on my laptop.

I am not sure of the configuration of the Host file. The last time I was trying to install R12 the host file contained “one line” of entry with the hostname and domain name. I ran into the services not starting problem post installation.
I deleted everything and starting it again with a new installation of Linux on my laptop ( stupid move, but did due to frustration)
Since I have a bad history in installation, I want to ask this question – should there be 2 lines or 1 line.
e.g.
2 lines
127.0.0.1 hostname.domain hostname and 127.0.0.1 erp.oracle.com erp

or
1 line
127.0.0.1 erp.oracle.com erp

Atul and Team, would be great if you can through some light on this. As most of us who follow are pure novices and not DBAs. Your answers would be appreciated.

Thanks
Muthukumar

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Atul Kumar says July 3, 2009

@Muthu,

First identify IP address of machine on which you are installing R12 (ifconfig) then add like

127.0.0.1 hostname.domain hostname
erp.oracle.com erp

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Muthu says July 3, 2009

Thanks for getting back to me so the generic line with the new line should be present and then just add the hostname and domain name AND HOSTNAME . hope my understanding is correct now.

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Muthu says July 3, 2009

Thanks Atul. I did the installation, the post validation has failed. below is the failed log. I was not able to upload the complete log. I can mail it if needed. Can you please tell me why they all have failed .

I check metalink and did the retry but faled.
The metalink note : 414414.1
removed -DSSL from apachectl

> # eval ohs_start -DSSL “$args”
> eval ohs_start “$args”

Can you please tell me how to proceed further.
**********************
Log
File = /media/usbdisk/101/Oracle/VIS/inst/apps/
VIS_amk/appl/fnd/12.0.0/secure/VIS.dbc

HTTP

—–

checking URL = http://amk.corp.com:8000

RW-50015: Error: – HTTP Listener is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the service and use the retry button.
Help Page

———-

checking URL = http://amk.corp.com:8000/OA_HTML/help

RW-50015: Error: – Help Page is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the service and use the retry button.
Virtual Directory

——————

RW-50015: Error: – Http Server Virtual Directories is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the service and use the retry button.
JSP

—-

checking URL = http://amk.corp.com:8000/OA_HTML/jtfTestCookie.jsp

RW-50015: Error: – JSP is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the service and use the retry button.
Login Page

———–

RW-50015: Error: – Login Page is not responding. The service might not have started on the port yet. Please check the service and use the retry button.

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Anandha says July 4, 2009

muthu,
there are two main reasons why you get this error
1) Insufficient RAM on you laptop ( you should have atleast 2gb ram and should have allocated atleast 1.5gb to your vm)

2) second reason is

libdb.so.2 file is required in the process of starting HTTP server.
It comes with compat-db …..rpm from linux.
In RHEL5 or OEL5 the version of compat-db is 4.2.52-5.1 and it doesnt install the libdb.so.2.
And this is may be the cause of this error. so uninstall the compat-db-4.2.52-5.1.i386.rpm and install compat-db-4.1.25-9.i386.rpm.

Hope this helps
Thanks
Anandha

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Atul Kumar says July 4, 2009

@Muthu,
If there was no errors during installation (and problem is only during post install checks)then you can simply restart R12 services and try again.

Try increasing memory to 3 or 3.5 GB on VM for R12 (database SGA size if quite big)

If there were issues during installation then fix issues (check logs to find cause of issue)

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Mamta says July 7, 2009

Hi Atul

Are the steps same for 12.1.1 installation?

Thanks,
Mamta

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Atul Kumar says July 7, 2009

Yes 12.1.1 is similar to 12.0.X installation

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reachtg says July 11, 2009

Hi Atul,

I did Fresh R12 Installation install on Linux
everything worked fine, then i installed OBIEE.
R12 install is messed up….

I ran adautocfg on Apps Tier run=INSTE8_SETUP, log file has following errors

adautocfg.sh errors
afcpnode.sh errors

================***************************
declare
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-04063: package body “APPS.FND_CONCURRENT” has errors
ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called:
“APPS.FND_CONCURRENT”
ORA-06512: at line 1
ORA-06512: at line 107
ORA-04063: package body “APPS.FND_CONCURRENT” has errors
ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called:
“APPS.FND_CONCURRENT”
ORA-04063: package body “APPS.FND_CONCURRENT” has errors
ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called:
“APPS.FND_CONCURRENT”
***********************************************

///////////////============================>>>>>
Unique constraint error (00001) is OK if key already exists
java.sql.SQLException: ORA-04063: package body “APPS.FND_CONCURRENT” has errors
ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called: “APPS.FND_CONCURRENT”
ORA-06512: at “APPS.FND_APP_SERVER_PKG”, line 262
ORA-06512: at line 1
– Database error modifying the server

ADD call failed with exit code 1

//////////////////

please help

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Atul says July 13, 2009

It seems there are invalid objects related to CM in your database.
Compile invalid objects in database by running utlrp.sql in $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin on DB Tier

command to check invalid objects
SQL> select object_name, object_type, owner from all_objects where status like ‘INVALID;

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Muthukumar says July 17, 2009

Thanks folks this TI was very helpful. I resolved the issue. The default host entry “127.0.0.1 hostname.domain hostname” was missing added it and did a little more fixes and made it to work.

Thanks once again!!!

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Satya says August 8, 2009

Hi Atul,

I have laptop with OS windows XP, 1 gb ram
My RAM can’t be expanded more than 1 gb as off now.

I have got the external hard disk of 320gb with windows XP installed in that as well,and when i want to access external hard disk i would boot from external hard disk,could you please tell whether it is possible to install R12 to install in external hard disk.

considering above limitations.

regards
Satya

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Atul Kumar says August 9, 2009

1 GB is not enough as SGA for 11g DB (with 12.1.1) is 1 GB itself, you should have approx 4 GB memory.

Installing on external hard disk should be fine

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Satya says August 10, 2009

Hi Atul,

thanks for reply.

One more question, my colleague has installed 11.5.10 with VMware and external hard disk is having installation and he has 2gb ram.

as you know i have 1 gb ram,So would it be possible for me to install 11.5.10(if not R12) in external hard disk and booting from it…and not installing VMware.

Or

Following same as my colleague did.

Regards
Satya

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vijay says December 2, 2009

I tried r12 on 1GB RAM and is working little slow but its working.After successfull Installation I reduced sga_target to 420M and pga_aggregate_target to 400m to give more room to other application processes and is running normal.

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Atul Kumar says December 10, 2009

@ Vijay,
Thanks for sharing this information.

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tuanhoanganh says December 11, 2009

I had successfuly install R12.1.1 vison demo but when i loged in with u:sysadmin p:sysadmin I can’t found alot of menu like : General Ledger, Vision Operations (USA) … What was I wrong?

Thanks you very much. Sorry for my English.

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Atul Kumar says December 11, 2009

@ tuanhoanganh,
What all menu you see there ?

Did you try adding mentioned responsibility to user sysadmin from define user screen ?

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tuanhoanganh says December 12, 2009

Ak Html Forms;Alert Manager, Vision Enterprises;Application Developer;Application Developer Common Modules;Application Diagnostics;Auditing Manager;Business Intelligence System, Vision Operations (USA);CRM Administrator, Vision Enterprises;CRM HTML Administration;CRM HTML Developer;Custom AOL Workbooks;Customer Support, Vision Operations;Functional Administrator;Functional Developer;HRMS Management;HRMS Manager, Vision University;iMeeting End User responsibility;iMeeting Guest user responsibility;iMeeting System Configure responsibility;iMeeting System Monitor responsibility;Install Base Admininistrator;Install Base User;Integrated SOA Gateway;Interaction History JSP Admin
iProcurement;iSetup;Knowledge Base Agent, Vision Operations;Knowledge Base System Administrator, Vision Operations;Knowledge Base Worker, Vision Operations;Oracle Trade Management User;Performance Management Designer;Performance Management Security Administrator;Performance Management User;Preferences SSWA;Scripting Agent, Vision Enterprises;Self Service Web Applications Manager, Vision Enterprises;System Administration;System Administrator
User Management;Workflow;Workflow Administrator Web Applications;Workflow User Web Applications;XML Gateway;XML Publisher Administrator;

It is all menu i see, please help me.

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Oracleuser says December 14, 2009

Hi, I am trying re-start Rapidwiz on unix, by using Re-start command , however i am getting an error ,Command not found.
Any suggestion will be appreciated.

Rgards
Oracleuser

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Atul Kumar says December 14, 2009

@ Oracleuser,
Type exact command and error message

also answer following

1. pwd
2. ls -l

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Oracleuser says December 14, 2009

Thanks,Atul
I have started Rapidwiz again. My previous rapidwiz activity install ORADBA complete and partial installation of ORA APP folder.
Now i start it again and getting this error message while Rapidwiz start Java applet.

Oracle Home located at /home/aj/PROD/db/tech_st has already some contents…please select other location..

Should i choose PROD2 or delete the previous installation first and then reinstall again..

Thanks

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Waheed says January 4, 2010

Sir this is a usefull information. Can u tell me if i use redhat linux 5.0 ,so stageR12 installation will be same as for Linux 4.5.Why i use linux 5 because i cant find 4.5 and when i try to download it from edelivery.oracle.com/linux, in the middle of the downloading it ask for username and password.

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Atul Kumar says January 4, 2010

@ Waheed,
Yes you can use same R12 media for 4.5 or 5.0 Linux.

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vinay says January 11, 2010

Hi Atul,
I purchased the R12 Virtual Disk from you website but it did not come with the installation steps.

Could you email me the steps to evp020@yahoo.com

Thanks,

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Atul Kumar says January 11, 2010

@ Vinay,
Setup guide was email’d to your yahoo account (please check your spam folder). You can download it from here too

http://81.143.3.107/r12vmware/

Atul

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Sasidhar says February 14, 2010

Hi Atul,

I am trying to install R12.1.1 on my HP laptop with 4GB Ram and 500 GB external HDD.

I am getting post installation errors for HTTP, Virtual Page, Login Page, JSP and Help Page.

I sourced the environment and found there is an error which says something like this. I am desperate to resolving this issue.

/Transcend/d01/inst/apps/VIS_orappl/ora/10.1.3/Apache/Apache/bin/apachectl startssl: execing httpd
Ouch! ap_mm_create(1048576, “/Transcend/d01/inst/apps/VIS_orappl/pids/10.1.3/Apache/logs/mm.32290”) failed
Error: MM: mm:core: failed to memory map memory file (No such device): OS: No such file or directory

——–
10/02/14 06:17:51 Start process
——–
/Transcend/d01/inst/apps/VIS_orappl/ora/10.1.3/Apache/Apache/bin/apachectl startssl: execing httpd
Ouch! ap_mm_create(1048576, “/Transcend/d01/inst/apps/VIS_orappl/pids/10.1.3/Apache/logs/mm.32297”) failed
Error: MM: mm:core: failed to memory map memory file (No such device): OS: No such file or directory

What do i do ? Pls help

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Atul Kumar says February 15, 2010

@ Sasidhar

Can you see file system mentioned here i.e.

“/Transcend/d01/inst/apps/VIS_orappl/pids/10.1.3/Apache/logs”

Check if you can write to this directory ?

cd /Transcend/d01/inst/apps/VIS_orappl/pids/10.1.3/Apache/logs
touch abc.txt

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Sasidhar says February 15, 2010

Hi Atul,

this is the “/Transcend/d01 is the directory where R12 is being installed and i am able to create files in the directory “/Transcend/d01/inst/apps/VIS_orappl/pids/10.1.3/Apache/logs
also

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Sasidhar says February 15, 2010

this is a followup to the previous post.
I am installing R12 on OEL5u4 as dual boot. I am installing R12 on to external 500GB HDD. I am desperate in finding a solution for this error.

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Atul Kumar says February 15, 2010

@ Sashidhar,

This could be because of missing kernel settings

Ensure that you have followed kernel setting mentioned in metalink note
761564.1 – Oracle Applications Installation and Upgrade Notes Release 12 (12.1.1) for Linux x86

other reasons could be

1. File system type is not one supported by Apache/OHS
2. Ensure that apache is not already running

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Sasidhar says February 16, 2010

I am installing R12 on external HDD which is NTFS on linux. i have used fuse rpm so the OEL can detect NTFS. is this the problem ?

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Sasidhar says February 17, 2010

Atul i have seen the post by you about installing R12 using VM. I have also done the same. But i am facing a new problem now. I am getting the following error.

Login Page
checking URL = http://orappl.orappl.com:8000/OA_HTML/AppsLogin
RW-50016: Error: – {0} was not created:
File = {1}

though i have not properly downloaded the files so rechecked MD5 values for all the files they are allo correct. Do i need to do any thing else when installing using VMware.

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Atul Kumar says February 17, 2010

@ Sashidhar,

I am installing R12 on external HDD which is NTFS on linux. i have used fuse rpm so the OEL can detect NTFS. is this the problem ?

Are you not using VMware ?

use ext3 type of file system for Linux .

You can use fdisk to format disk to type ext3

http://onlineappsdba.com/index.php/2009/12/30/how-to-add-disk-in-linuxoel-virtual-linux-on-vmware-server/

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sana_nezam says February 18, 2010

Hi Atul,

I need your help in Printer configuration in Oracle EBS Rel-12.1.1. OS- Solaris 10 (SPARC,32-bit)

I have configured Pasta setup, but yet I am unable to print text files in landscape style.
I am getting printout in Portrait.

I am facing this issue in standard reports.

When trying to print any PDF, getting junk characters only in the printout.

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Sasidhar says February 18, 2010

Hi Atul thanks a mill for your prompt replies my problem is i am installing R12 using VMware and OEL5u4. But i am facing a new problem now. I am getting the following error.

Login Page
checking URL = http://orappl.orappl.com:8000/OA_HTML/AppsLogin
RW-50016: Error: – {0} was not created:
File = {1}

though i have not properly downloaded the files so rechecked MD5 values for all the files they are all correct. Do i need to do any thing else when installing using VMware.

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Sasidhar says February 19, 2010

hola, i have succeded in installing R12 on OEL5u4 using VMware. thanks a lot for that !. but now i have strange problem(s)

1.after setting the static IP i am not able to acess internet don’t know what to do.
2. whenever i click on any responsibility i am getting the following message

*In order to access this application, you must install the J2SE plugin Version 1.6.0_07 on your client and NPX_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable is set before starting Netscape. To install this plugin, click here to download the oaj2se.exe executable. Once the download is complete, double-click the oaj2se.exe file to install the plugin. You will be prompted to restart your browser when the installation is complete*

But OMG i am using Linux and how do i install a .exe file. Should i download JRE, but how ??? i am not able to access internet with this static IP.

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Atul Kumar says February 22, 2010

@ Sashidhar,

1.after setting the static IP i am not able to acess internet don’t know what to do.

Is this VMware ? Check gateway on netowrk card on Linux machine is configured correctly.

2. To access forms , all you need it JRE installed in your linux browser (Mozilla or Netscape)

Download JRE 1.6.0 patch 7 and try again

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Sasidhar says February 24, 2010

Hi Atul,

Your post for setting up Linux on VMware was very useful and I have installed R12 on linux using VMware. I heard that OEL is not certified as R12 client so i can’t open any forms. How do i setup VMware so that i can access R12 from my host machine.

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userjp says February 25, 2010

I want to install R12 on linux, and was preparing to create stage area. My 64-bit server is not yet ready (needs hardware changes) and I was wondering if in the meantime I can prepare the stage on another linux server which is 32-bit- Any harm of doing this?

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Atul Kumar says February 25, 2010

@Userjp,
Software for Linux X-86 is different from 64 bit so please download 64 bit one if you are planning to install it on Linux 64 bit machine.

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Atul Kumar says February 25, 2010

@ Sasidhar, Forms for R12 should work from OEL . All you need is JRE 1.6 on browser on OEL (like Mozilla) which should come from apps r12 during first time forms access.

For accessing Linux VM from windows machine configure these two machines (guest Linux and Host windows on same subnet )

Lets assume IP of Windows is 192.168.1.X then configure IP of Linux as 192.168.1.Y and then try to ping Linux machien from windows

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userjp says February 25, 2010

Author: Atul Kumar
Comment:
@Userjp,
Software for Linux X-86 is different from 64 bit so please download 64 bit one if you are planning to install it on Linux 64 bit machine.

Hi Atul,
Thanks for the reply- I cant see my posting above, so I have included your reply..

Sorry for the confusion- let me explain what I am trying to do. I already have 64-bit apps media, that I intend to install on 64 bit linux. My question was – is it possible to
create the stage on a 32 bit linux server and then use that stage to install on 64 bit?

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Atul Kumar says February 25, 2010

@userjp,
I don’t think staging 64 bit software on 32 bit linux machine should create any issues .

You should be able to stage 64 bit apps on 32 bit linux machine and then mount this stage area to 64 bit linux and install on 64 bit Linux

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Arpit Ingole says March 8, 2010

Hi Atul,

I had install application(11.5.10.2) on VM in Linux OP, after login to application form are not opening….giving error as “additional plugin are required to open media on this page” with installation button. but when i click on installation but it does not work on firefox.

I am not DBA .. so ple explain in brife.

Thanka and Regards,

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Manpreet says April 1, 2010

Hi Atul,

I installed linux on the vmware. During installation two users were created, but when i login by either of these users they have only 444 permissions and I am unable to update these permissions.

I wanted to create staging area and proceed further for R12 installation, but I am not sure how to proceed.

Also do we have to ftp all the zip files to linux server before we proceed to run the adautostg.pl script

Thanks, Manrpeet

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Sasidhar says April 6, 2010

hi atul,

i want to work on Oracle forms 10g. i downloaded forms10g from the link http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ids/htdocs/101202winsoft.html. I have installed Forms10g and whenever i try to run a form IE crashes. I found out that JRE must be latest version and i have it. But inspite of that IE is crashing. I have db installed on a linux machine using vmware. i am able to connect to the database from sqldeveloper, but when i try to connect from Forms10g connection hangs.

Please help how to fix these issues.
IE crashing
not able to conneect to database.

do i need to download any patch

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Atul says April 6, 2010

@ Sashidhar,
Try different browser like Mozilla and see of this helps

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qtopsoft says April 19, 2010

Hi,
I installed r12.1.1 on Linux OEL 4.5 using vmware, i have allocated 3 GB ram to guest OS. I was getting post installation errors. To rectify those, I reduced SGA & PGA to 700M, started DB and Listener manually, clear log files, run adstrtal.sh and then pressed retry button on post install wizard dialog, all services (DB, Config upload, DBC, Env file, HTTP, Help page, and Virtual Directory) started. the only error I am getting now is of JSP and Login page and is below:
JSP is not responding, waiting 15 seconds and retesting
this error coming 5 times and instead of taking 15 seconds it almost takes 15 minutes to respond for next message.
Any Help will be highly appreciated.

Many Thanks

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Sasidhar says April 27, 2010

Hi atul what is trigger overriding in Oracle apps ? if there is W.V.I trigger at form,block and item level how can i override the triggers above item level. any idea ?

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venkat says May 15, 2010

I got a situation here.

I created 2 POs with Autocreate option and Manual Create option

Both the POs have 3 line items. When i am trying to create receipts entry for both the POs only 1 line item is showing up i don’t know how to fix this.

pls help

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furqan says May 24, 2010

I have problem with post install checks of Login page and JSP what can be the proble what Ihave to do can any one guide pleas e

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Atul Kumar says May 24, 2010

@ Furqan,
How much memory you have on system ?

Click on retry ?

Check if all services are up and running ? If not start them manually.

Things to check
1. If database is up and accessible
2. DB Listener is up and listening
3. Check middle tier services specially web server and OC4J’s

adopmnctl.sh[cmd] status

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sasidhar says May 25, 2010

Hi Atul,

How to find the base tables in R12 for suppliers ? Suppliers entry form is web based and i don’t know where to look in to know the table details. pls help.

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furqan says May 26, 2010

Hi Atul

1. I have 2 GB of memeory and 500 GB harddisk .

2. I restart Application tier,it shows exiting with status 1 it has some problem with adoafmctl.sh
adformsctl
adapctl.sh

then i check adopmnctl status

ias _comp procc type status
OC4j oafm Init
OC4J forms ALIVE
oacore ALIVE
HTTP_SERVER HTTP_SERVER ALIVE

3. then click on restart

ALL post installation checks are OK including JSP (that was nt previously)
except loging page

please guide as I am new to Oracle R12 .
facing diffculties

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Atul Kumar says May 27, 2010

@ Furqan,
oafm is in initialization state so wait for this to come up and then check again. Check OC4J 9for oafm) log file if this OC4J fails to start

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tony says July 2, 2010

Dear Atul,

I am trying to Install Oracle Apps 12.0.4.6 on Windows7,

i did all the steps mentioned but when i doubleclick on RapidWiz.cmd The Wizard Window is not opening at all

Can you help me in this

Thanks Tony

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Victor says July 20, 2010

Excellent post

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Vishal says July 20, 2010

Hi Atul,

I installed R12.1.1 on OEL 5.5 on vmware as per the installation instructions and the installation also finished successfully. I can see the EBS login page BUT when I enter the login credentials, it doesn’t allow me to get inside. It doesn’t give any error. I used SYSADMIN/SYSADMIN and couple of other logins but all failed.
I did some debugging and checked many log files incliuding Apache but couldn’t find anything suspicious.

I performed the following debugging –

1)Applied latest Autoconfig patch – 7651166 –> Ran Autoconfig successfully at both DB and Apps tier —> started all the services -adstrtal.sh —-> same result.
2)Recompiled JSP –> changed Justrun to Recompile in context file —> Ran Autoconfig successfully at both DB and Apps tier —> started all the services -adstrtal.sh —-> same result.
3)Enabled Debug—> couldn’t notice anything suspicious in any of the log files—no errors etc.
4) No error log in Apache; access log gets updated as intended..etc

What should I check now?

Thanks,
Vishal

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Vishal says July 20, 2010

Hi again,

Browsers I used were IE 6 and IE 8 and Mozilla 3.0.

Thanks,
Vishal

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Atul Kumar says July 21, 2010

@ Tony,
How much memory you have on system ? (disable any antivirus on system)

Try starting cmd as “run as administrator” and then from that command prompt run RapidWiz.cmd

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Atul Kumar says July 21, 2010

@ Vishal,

Try operations/welcome

or Change sysadmin password using FNDCPASS and then try

You would need apps and system password

For steps on how to change passwords in apps from command line http://onlineappsdba.com/index.php/2007/01/23/change-oracle-apps-password-fndcpass/

FNDCPASS apps/apps_password 0 Y system/system_password user sysadmin new_password

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Vishal says July 21, 2010

Thanks for your reply Atul.

I have already tried that but no success.

I guess the issue is somewhere in the vmware image as vmware is not certified by oracle.
I would probably need to turn on or off “something” in vmware.
I did try to install it on Windows 2003 server vmware image but faced same issue.
And as per your post, you successfully installed this on vmware so probably I am missing something somewhere.
Can you pls highlight anything that I should be taking care of?

Thanks,
Vishal

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sonyseban says September 1, 2010

I am upgrading 11.5.10.2 to 12.1.2.
My server is running HP UX 64 and I am running the rapidwiz from windows 7. When I start this, my rapidwiz window going to the top left corner and not able to see the top part of it and not able to move it. Did you ever faced this problem of rapidwiz on windows 7. It is good in xp.

Could you please advice me how to solve this issue.

Thanks
Sony

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Ehsan says January 26, 2011

Dear Atul

Actually I am trying to learn EBS R12 on myself;
I have installed Oracle Apps R12 on Linux, every thing seems ok; I can logged in using sysadmin user, web pages are opening; but when I click on forms got following Error:

FRM-92050 : Failed to connect to the server: /forms/lservlet:-1

your help is needed to fix this problem;

Thanks and best wishes
Ehsan ul Haq

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Ehsan says January 27, 2011

Hi Atul

Thanks for your prompt reply; that problem is resolve from IE 8.0 but now same problem on both IE and Mozilla;

FRM-92101: There was a failure in the Forms Server during startup. This could happen due to invalid configuration.
Please look into the web-server log files for details.

I check all files in the following location you mentions
$INST_TOP/apps/$CONTEXT_NAME/logs/ora/ (10.1.2 & 10.1.3)
$INST_TOP/apps/$CONTEXT_NAME/logs/ora/10.1.3/Apache/error_log[timestamp]
$INST_TOP/apps/$CONTEXT_NAME/logs/ora/10.1.3/opmn/ (OC4J~…, oa*, opmn.log)$INST_TOP/apps/$CONTEXT_NAME/logs/ora/10.1.2/network/ (listener log)

but did not find and valid reason that could cause the problem;

please advise

thanks and best wishes

Ehsan

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sani says January 31, 2011

Hi Atul

I am facing same problem as last mentioned above FRM-92101, I install R12 on linux twice, but stuck here,

can you please advice; what mistake I am doing that my forms are not working

“FRM-92101: There was a failure in forms server during startup, This could happen due to invalid configuration, please look into the web-server log file for details.

hope to listen from you soon.

Thanks

Sani

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Atul Kumar says January 31, 2011

@ Sani/Ehsan,

This erro is generic forms error which could be because of number of reasons. To find exact root cause check error message in application.log for forms & oacore OC4J at

$INST_TOP/apps/$CONTEXT_NAME/logs/ora/10.1.X

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sani says January 31, 2011

Hi Atul

Thanks for prompt reply;

I check and found following error in my application.log

11/01/31 16:56:40.743 formsweb: Forms session aborted: runtime process failed during startup with errors /d01/oracle/VIS/apps/tech_st/10.1.2/bin/frmweb:
error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

and when I find libXm.so.2 that is not located in above path, its actually located in following path:
/d01/oracle/VIS/apps/tech_st/10.1.2/lib/stubs/libXm.so.2
/d01/oracle/VIS/apps/tech_st/10.1.3/lib/stubs/libXm.so.2

now, do copy this file on above path or create soft link on above folder ??

hope to listen from you soon once again

Thanks in advance

sani

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Atul Kumar says January 31, 2011

@ sani,
Good , this library file is part of openMotif package.

Please install openmotif rpm as per your Linux Kernel .

For Red Hat/Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 32 bit install openmotif21-2.1.30-11.EL5.i386.rpm

For more info or list of required RPMs check 402310.1 Oracle Applications Installation and Upgrade Notes Release 12 (12.0.4) for Linux (32-bit)

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sani says January 31, 2011

Hi Atul

I really appreciate your prompt reply once again;;

I check following package is already installed;
openmotif22-2.2.3-18.i386.rpm

I install your advice package : openmotif21-2.1.30-11.EL5.i386.rpm

and great its working 🙂

Thanks once again

sani

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shaik says February 26, 2011

Dear All

I lost my fmb file but I have only the fmx file .

is there any way to create the fmb file from fmx?

Please advice.

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Sunny says March 20, 2011

Hi Atul,

I am trying to install Oracle Apps R12 on Linux x86-64 bit.

I have downloaded Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.1 Media Pack v5 for Linux x86 64 Bit from Oracle Website (54 / 53 GB)

I do not have an access to Metalink. can you please help me with the RPM’s required and Kernel Parameters.

Also, Like to confirm, I have placed all the unzipped files in a folder named Setup. Should I directly go ahead and execute the Perl script for staging?

Any assistance would be much appreciated.

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Atul Kumar says March 23, 2011

@ Sunny,

I have placed all the unzipped files in a folder named Setup. Should I directly go ahead and execute the Perl script for staging?

There is no need to create staging, simply put all zip files in a folder and unzip them. It will create 5 subdirectory and then folders under that (This is your staging).

•gcc-4.1.2-14.el5.x86_64
•gcc-c++-4.1.2-14.el5.x86_64
•glibc-2.5-18.i686 (32-bit)
•glibc-2.5-18.x86_64
•glibc-common-2.5-18.x86_64
•glibc-devel-2.5-18.i386 (32-bit)
•glibc-devel-2.5-18.x86_64
•libgcc-4.1.2-14.el5.i386
•libgcc-4.1.2-14.el5.x86_64
•libstdc++-devel-4.1.2-14.el5.i386
•libstdc++-devel-4.1.2-14.el5.x86_64
•libstdc++-4.1.2-14.el5.i386
•libstdc++-4.1.2-14.el5.x86_64
•make-3.81-1.1.x86_64
•gdbm-1.8.0-26.2.1.i386
•gdbm-1.8.0-26.2.1.x86_64
•libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5.i386
•libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5.x86_64
•libaio-0.3.106-3.2.i386
•libaio-0.3.106-3.2.x86_64
•libgomp-4.1.2-14.el5.x86_64
•sysstat-7.0.0-3.el5.x86_64
•util-linux-2.13-0.45.el5.x86_64
•compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-138.i386
•compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.i386
•openmotif21-2.1.30-11.EL5.i3861
•xorg-x11-libs-compat-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.1.i386
•binutils-2.17.50.0.6-6.0.1.x86_64
•compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.x86_64
•elfutils-libelf-devel-0.125-3.el5.x86_64
•elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.125-3.el5.x86_64
•libaio-devel-0.3.106-3.2.x86_64
•unixODBC-2.2.11-7.1.i386
•unixODBC-devel-2.2.11-7.1.i386
•unixODBC-2.2.11-7.1.x86_64
•unixODBC-devel-2.2.11-7.1.x86_64
•kernel-headers-2.6.18-8.el5.x86_64

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jalaja says April 21, 2011

Hi,
How to install the oracle E-business suite hhi or r12 in vm ware (laptop).. i have windows vista 32 bit in that i have vm ware of linux redhat as5 and windows 2003.. how to install?

Regards
JALAJA.K

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Atul Kumar says April 25, 2011

@ jalaja,
1. Copy zip files (R12 software ) to linux machine
2. Unzip all files
3. create a user (or two user for multi user installation)
4. Start installation using root user from R12_software/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/rapidwiz

follow installer screens

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Suresh says August 25, 2011

Hi Atul,

While i am installing r12.1.1 in Oracle Linux 5.7 64bit server i am getting blow error,

RW:50004:error code receiving when running external process check log file for more details.

Log file:

RC:00118: Error occurred during creation of database raised by oracle.apps.ad.clone.ApplyDatabae

Please help me to move forward, i couldn’t achieve from last 5 days…

Thanks & Regard
SURESH

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Hari says November 17, 2011

Hi Atul
Please give me details..how to install 12.1.1 on OEL 6.1 with documentation

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murali says December 8, 2011

error redhat enterprise linux 5.3 version
appsinstallation r12.1.1

./rapidwiz bin/sh: badinterpter

:permission is denied

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Atul Kumar says December 8, 2011

@ Murali,
Which user you are using to run rapidwiz ?

Exact location of rapidwiz ?

What is current ownership and permission of rapidwiz (ls -l) ?

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cnsmiles says May 15, 2012

Hi,

I was curious if you have had experience with Oracle E-Business Suite on and Amazon Ec2 instance. They have prepackaged AIMs for E-biz. I was able to successfully configure and get both apps tier and db tier running, but when accessing the login page, nothing was rendering to the browser. I used the public dns address to access the login page.

http://ec2-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.compute 1.amazonaws.com/OA_HTML/AppsLogin

I used Metalink 1205963.1 to set things up, but I’m not able get the front end to show. Any clues? There are number of things the the document advise that I do such as such change the private ip to the public ip address for the login page and use port 80 for the http listening port.

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Baqar says May 23, 2012

Dear Atul

Please send me the O/S requirement.

1)I have Windows Box – 4 GB RAM.
2)I want to install APPS on Linux using VMWARE.
3)How much space required,currently i have 150 GB,Can i attach External Hard Disk which is 500 GB.

Please i need to install the APPS as a test system.

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arun Kumar says March 26, 2013

Hi Atul,

Thanks for your guidence.

I have installed and done patching,cloning of R12 on my laptop by reading your blogs….thank alot.

now i m going for exam 1z0-238 (Apps dba R12), on this your help required..please sen me some sample questions for R12 exam/DUMP so that i can go for the exam. Thanks in advance.

Regards
Arun Kumar

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irfan says June 2, 2013

hi atul
when I am running rapidwiz it is showing this
[root@erp1 rapidwiz]# ./rapidwiz

Rapid Install Wizard is validating your file system……
4 dvd labels found
Rapid Install Wizard will now launch the Java Interface…..

[root@erp1 rapidwiz]# ./rapidwiz: /u01/stage/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/bin/runWizard.sh: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I tried by opening the rapidwiz file with vi editor and write :set fileformat=unix but it is also not working.

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sangam says August 25, 2014

hi…
i want to learn oracle apps HRMS tecnical..
can somebody help me or give me your mobile no so i can contact you for reference..

currently i am in bangalore..

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egochigo says March 7, 2015

I am new to linux and i am a DBA. I have down load R1224 and linux 6.6. I have installed linux on a VMware 9. I have staged the R1224 and when i kicked off rapidiz I am getting an erorr RW-00013 The directory could not be created. Please check permission. I logged as root. Please help me

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Givemore Nenohwe says March 15, 2017

Am having a nightmare trying to run ./rapidwiz .I have setup my staging area properly .What might be the problem .

could not find main class : oracle.apps.ad.rapidwiz.RIWizard could not find main class linux

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    Atul Kumar says March 26, 2017

    From which folder you are running ? Looks like issue with staging

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