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Patch Set 10.2.0.5 for Oracle Database Server re-released on Linux x86

A week ago Oracle has re-released the patch set 10.2.0.5 for Oracle Database on Linux x86 (32 bit). It seems that some additional bug fixes were added to the patch set, but I was unable to find exactly which one. The patch set is available for download

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Many open files on HP-UX after RAC upgrade to 10.2.0.4 - racgimon file handle leak

Two months after patching a customer database to 10.2.0.4 I've received a call, telling me that the database is hanging. Usually this happens when they missed the backup of the archive logs and the database stops. This time there was enough space available and this was not

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Oracle will bring back VirtualBox shared disk capability

During the questions section of the last webinar Introducing Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2 Oracle said that they received a complains from a lot of customers using VirtualBox regarding the installation of Oracle RAC. This requires a shared disk drive to be accessed by the nodes (VMs) of the cluster

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Patch Set 10.2.0.5 for Oracle Database Server

Just to mention that few days ago patch set 10.2.0.5 was released for HP-UX Itanium and IBM AIX systems. The patch set is available for download from My Oracle Support with number 8202632. Regards, Sve

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Oracle 11g R2 installer fails on HP-UX 11iv3

Running the installer of any of the products (client, grid, database) of Oracle Database 11g Release 2 on HP-UX 11iv3 (Itanium) fails with: "An internal error occurred within cluster verification framework" After starting ./runInstaller the following error window pops-up: Also at the installAction$DATE.log the following error

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Visiting BGOUG

I'll be visiting the spring conference of the BGOUG this weekend. It will be very interesting since there are some topics related to Sun technologies. Again this time we have a lot of foreign presence.

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Presentation about Oracle on HP-UX and Linux

At the last BGOUG I was talking about some of the differences between HP-UX and Linux although they cannot be compared because they run on different platforms. I tried to figure out how Linux penetrate the Enterprise OS market in the last years, what is still missing and what features

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Constant cimprovagt daemon crashing and filling the /var directory

We installed two nodes with HP-UX 11.31 March 2009 BOE in a ServiceGuard environment and started test applications in two packets. Suddenly the /var directories on both nodes started to grow and respectively the cluster was crashing because of that and the syslog was never up to date. It

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HP-UX software bug hidden in cluster behaviour

I was called to check some strange behavior of two-node cluster and to see why the one of the nodes crashed unexpectedly.Â The two nodes were HP Integrity servers installed with HP-UX 11.31 Base OE (March 2009). Well the node did not crashed it was just restarted from

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vxfs extendfs: Invocation of the fsck program terminated abnormally

You will see this message in case you interrupt the extendfs command. I my case I passed block device as an argument to the extendfs command and waited for several minutes (usually it takes one or two) then I remembered that the command expects character device. I read some opinions

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Cannot start HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager

System: HP-UX 11.31 DCOE Match 2009, installed HP-SIM and HPVM This error is shown on the System Management Homepage when I try to open HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager: An error occurred collecting data query failed. An error occurred communicating with WBEM: CIM_ERR_FAILED CIM_ERR_FAILED: @1:

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Many racgmain(check) processes at HP-UX 11iv3

I was called that some commands for controlling the cluster and the oracle are not working. This was two node cluster installed with Oracle 10.2.0.4 RAC on HP-UX 11.31 Data Center OE (December 2008) working for a month already. Arriving at the customer site I noticed

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Changing physical path of ASM disk group

The purpose of this document is to show that changing the psyhical path of ASM disk MEMBERS is possible and there is no risk. For the purpose of the test, we create one logical volume called lvora and we grant ownership of this file to oracle: root@node1:/# lvcreate -n

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Migration of HP-UX raw devices to Oracle ASM

This is an article which I wrote about how to migrate Oracle datafiles from LVM raw devices to Oracle ASM.

Starting a blog

Well, finaly I decided to start a blog. I'll be writing about UNIX (HP-UX, Linux) and Oracle.