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I just Installed oracle enterprise Linux OEL 6.1 on vmware server 2. When i tried to configure vmware tools it failed with error unable to find gcc. Inserted media for Oracle Linux 6.1 and tried installing the rpm "gcc-4.4.5-6.el6.i686.rpm" but failed with below error message: [root@oraclecloud Packages]# rpm -ivh gcc-4.4.5-6.el6.i686.rpm warning: gcc-4.4.5-6.el6.i686.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID ec551f03: NOKEY error: Failed dependencies: cloog-ppl >= 0.15 is needed by gcc-4.4.5-6.el6.i686 cpp = 4.4.5-6.el6 is needed by gcc-4.4.5-6.el6.i686 >> when you try to Install the packages "cloog-ppl" and "cpp", again it will fail for some dependencies. Action plan: 1) Install rpm - mpfr-2.4.1-6.el6.i686.rpm 2) Install rpm - ppl-0.10.2-11.el6.i686.rpm 3) Install rpm - cloog-ppl-0.15.7-1.2.el6.i686.rpm 4) Install rpm - cpp-4.4.5-6.el6.i686.rpm 5) Install rpm - gcc-4.4.5-6.el6.i686.rpm Installation of these rpm's: [root@or

On one of our Oracle Apps 11i Instance, the service for gatekeeper will go offline. In turn users cannot access oracle discoverer 4i and receives the following error message: Check whether the service for gatekeeper is running or not: under 8.0.6 $ORACLE_HOME --> /discwb4/util/ bash-3.00$ sh checkdiscoverer.sh CheckDiscoverer: Version 4.1.48.00 on 10/16/11 10:07 PM Initializing ORB... ORB initialized successfully. Checking for OSAgent... Found OSAgent. Checking for OAD... OAD is running. Checking for Discoverer Preferences component... Discoverer Preferences component is registered with OAD. Checking for Discoverer Server... Discoverer Server is registered with OAD. Binding to Discoverer Server... Successfully bound to Discoverer Server. Checking for Discoverer Locator... 4.1.20 Found Discoverer Locator. Binding to Discoverer Server using Discoverer Locator... Successfully bound to Discoverer Server. Checking for Gatekeeper... file:/u01/stage/testerpora/iAS/Apache/Apache/htdocs/dis

Installation, configuration of 4 Node 11gR2 RAC The article below is my personal experience for Installing, configuring and creating a 4 Node 11gR2 (11.2.0.1) RAC database on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6, Vmware Server 2.0 Softwares used: 1) Vmware Server 2.02 (32-bit) 2) oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 (32-bit) 3) Oracle 11gR2 Grid infrastuture and database (11.2.0.1 - 32-bit) I have prepared ISO images for softwares - OEL 5 U6, 11.2.0.1 Grid Infra and 11.2.0.1 RDBMS oracle database and used these images throughout this complete setup. Attention!!!! I have configured this setup on a laptop with 16 GB RAM and i7 Quad Core 64-bit processor. Each vitual Machine is configured with 2 GB RAM and 30 GB local Disk. Node names and Ip address topology: We need to have 4 Opearting systems in our Virtual machine inventory. The below is the directory structure for installing these guest operating Systems: C:\Virtual Machines\racnode1 C:\Virtual Machines\racnode2 C:\Virtual Machines\racnode3 C:\Virtua