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Release Notes
11g Release 2 (11.2) for Oracle Solaris
E16779-03
December 2010
This document contains important information that was not included in the platform-specific or product-specific documentation for this release. This document supplements Oracle Database Readme.
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This document contains the following topics:
Content Specific to Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.1)
Content Specific to Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2)
The latest certification information for Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) is available on My Oracle Support (formerly OracleMetaLink) at:
For late-breaking updates and best practices about preupgrade, postupgrade, compatibility, and interoperability discussions, refer to Note 785351.1 on My Oracle Support (formerly OracleMetaLink) that links to the "Oracle 11gR2 Upgrade Companion" page.
https://support.oracle.com
In addition to the items listed in Section 2, "Features Not Available or Restricted in This Release," in Oracle Database Readme, the following products or features are not supported:
Oracle ACFS replication and tagging
Oracle ACFS security and encryption
Database Smart Flash Cache Support
Database Smart Flash Cache is supported on Solaris and Oracle Linux only. For release 11.2.0.1 on Oracle Linux, you must install the 8974084 patch.
Oracle Automatic Storage Management Dynamic Volume Manager Support
Starting with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2), Oracle ACFS and Oracle ADVM are only supported on Solaris 10 Update 6 or later for Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit) and Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit).
The following content is specific to release 11.2.0.1:
Refer to the installation guides for the preinstallation requirements. Additional preinstallation requirements include the following:
On Solaris 10, setting kernel parameters in /etc/system is deprecated. However, if you set shared memory using project settings, then you may encounter the following error:
ORA-27102: out of memory
Workaround:
Set memory, both by using allocations with project commands, and continue to provide memory settings in /etc/system. For example,
To set memory to 4 GB:
Open /etc/system with a text editor, and set the following values:
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=4294967295 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100 set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=10 set semsys:seminfo_semmni=70 set semsys:seminfo_semmns=200 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1
Set project memory settings in the kernel similar to the following:
$ prctl -n project.max-shm-memory -r -v 4G -i project 3 $ projmod -sK "project.max-shm-memory=(privileged,4G,deny)" default
Create the project in /etc/project for the Oracle Database installation owner, oracle, and OSDBA group, dba, using projects -l so that the value persists after system restarts:
% projects -l ... ... OASB projid : 3 comment: "" users : oracle groups : dba attribs: project.max-shm-memory=(privileged,4294967295,deny)
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 8929233.
Review the following sections for information about issues that affect Oracle Database installation, configuration, and upgrade:
Oracle ASMFS Listed As a Storage Option When Installing Oracle RAC Database
Upgrading Oracle RAC from Oracle9i to Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2)
Error Message Appears During Oracle ASM Upgrade to Oracle Grid Infrastructure
Deinstallation Tool Fails to Remove Oracle Database Gateway When Run from Oracle Home
Oracle Database Vault Configuration Assistant (DVCA) Fails When Adding Languages
If you install an Oracle RAC database after installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster, then the Specify Database Storage Options screen indicates that "Automatic Storage Manager File System (ASMFS)" is a storage option for Oracle Database files.
Workaround:
Ignore this sentence. Either select a file system for storage, or select Automatic Storage Management.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 9032054.
When installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure for Oracle Database 11g Release 2 with GNS and the OCR and voting disks on Oracle ASM, root.sh may fail with error
PROT-1: Failed to initialize ocrconfig
The failing command is ocrconfig -upgrade user group, and TNS-12560 can be found in sqlnet log file.
Workaround:
Check the /etc/group entry for the group being used by OCR, temporarily reduce the number of users listed for this group, and restart the installation.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 8979500.
When you install Oracle Grid Infrastructure (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM) on clusters created using Sun Clusterware and Oracle9i Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC), then an issue on some systems may prevent the installer from detecting which nodes are cluster members of the existing cluster.
Workaround:
If the installer does not detect all nodes of the existing cluster, then you must select manually all the nodes where Oracle9i Oracle RAC is installed. If you select only a subset of the nodes that are part of your existing Oracle 9i Oracle RAC installation, then the existing Oracle 9i Oracle RAC installation will have problems.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 9040596.
The SSH setup script, Disk1/sshsetup/sshUserSetup.sh, fails with the following errors as the installation media shows incorrect path:
./sshUserSetup.sh: /usr/local/bin/ssh: not found ./sshUserSetup.sh: /usr/local/bin/ssh-keygen: not found
Workaround:
Copy the executables to /usr/local/bin:
cp /usr/bin/ssh-keygen /usr/local/bin/ssh-keygen cp /usr/bin/ssh /usr/local/bin/ssh
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 9044791.
The rootupgrade.sh script displays the following error while upgrading Oracle ASM from release 10.1.0.5 to Oracle Grid Infrastructure release 11.2:
Failure 3 at CSS context initialization
Workaround:
Ignore this error message and proceed with the upgrade.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 8853996.
Use the standalone version of the deinstallation tool to remove Oracle Database Gateway, instead of running the deinstallation tool from the Oracle home.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 9039543.
Oracle Database Upgrade Assistant reports the following error message in the trace files after upgrading Oracle RAC database from release 10.2.0.5 to release 11.2:
PRKR-1078 : Database new of version 10.2.0.0.0 cannot be administered using current version of srvctl.
Workaround:
Ignore this error message.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 8915673.
The command-line utility, DVCA, fails to add more languages to Oracle Database Vault giving the following error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: (path)/lib/libocijdbc11.so: ld.so.1: java: fatal: (path)/lib/libocijdbc11.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
Solution:
Add the –d64 option when starting DVCA:
dvca -d64 -action addlanguages
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 9151315.
The following sections contain information about issues related to Oracle Database 11g and associated products:
If Global Services Daemon is enabled, then it may fail to start on all nodes of a cluster when Oracle Grid Infrastructure is started or when the nodes are restarted. You can verify the daemon state by running the following command:
srvctl status nodeapps
Workaround:
If required, run the following command on any one node in Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster to start the daemon on all the nodes:
srvctl start nodeapps
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 9075123.
Oracle Universal Installer does not copy the translated help files to Oracle home directory when you select the Spanish or French language.
Workaround:
On the Select Product Languages page, select both the Latin American Spanish and Spanish to get the help files translated in Spanish; and select both the Canadian French and French for the translated help files in French.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 9147106.
Oracle Management Service provides incorrect reverse ping command with Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control. The emoms.properties file shows:
emdrep.ping.pingCommand=/usr/sbin/ping <hostname>
Workaround:
Change the property in the emoms.properties file to:
emdrep.ping.pingCommand=/usr/sbin/ping <hostname> 30
Note:
On all the computers using IPv6, you must specifyping6 command (or an equivalent IPv6 command) instead of ping command.This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 9211800.
Oracle Universal Installer does not find the clientinstaller_help.map file and fails to load the help pages for locales other than English.
Workaround:
Set LANG=C before running Oracle Universal Installer. This changes the installer locale to English and the help content is available.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 9474214.
The following content is specific to release 11.2.0.2:
Refer to the installation guides for the preinstallation requirements. Additional preinstallation requirements include the following.
Restarting the installation fails if the user chooses to restart after selecting the software updates option during an Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation on a computer with vendor clusterware.
Workaround:
Set the SKIP_ROOTPRE environment variable to TRUE before starting Oracle Universal Installer.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 10078957.
Oracle Universal Installer fails to setup SSH if there is any deviation from the standard SSH path.
Workaround:
Copy the /stage/properties/ssPaths_sol.properties file to your local computer.
Modify the relevant SSH path. For example, SSH_PATH=/bin/ssh.
Start Oracle Universal Installer and specify the location of the local properties file from step 1.
runInstaller -J-Doracle.sysman.prov.PathsPropertiesLoc=local_path_location
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 9837487.
Review the following sections for information about issues that affect Oracle Database installation, configuration, and upgrade:
Error Message Appears During Oracle ASM Upgrade to Oracle Grid Infrastructure
Oracle Grid Infrastructure Fails to Start Automatically After a Node Restart
By default, software updates are download to the /tmp directory. This directory is deleted at the end of an installation. If you do not download and install the software updates during the same installation session, then the software updates are not available.
Workaround:
Specify a new download location for the software updates on the Download Software Updates screen.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 9975999.
The rootupgrade.sh script displays the following error while upgrading Oracle ASM from release 10.1.0.5 to Oracle Grid Infrastructure release 11.2:
Failure 3 at CSS context initialization
Workaround:
Ignore this error message and proceed with the upgrade.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 8853996.
When installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure, if the Oracle ASM device path is not specified in the format /dev/rdsk/cMtNdXsY or /dev/did/rdsk/dXsY or /dev/md/rawdg/rdsk/dX, then the following error displays during the Oracle ASM device validation prerequisite check:
PRVF-5150: Path /dev/rdsk/link/raw11 is not a valid path on all nodes
Workaround:
Specify the character device name rather than the symbolic link name.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 10052786.
When creating a database on a computer with large physical memory, Oracle Universal Installer or Database Configuration may display an out of memory error.
Workaround:
Select the Advanced Installation type during installation, or run Database Configuration Assistant after a software only installation and reduce the memory allocated for Oracle based on the shared memory settings for your operating system.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 9811726.
If Global Services Daemon is enabled, then it may fail to start on all nodes of a cluster when Oracle Grid Infrastructure is started or when the nodes are restarted. You can verify the daemon state by running the following command:
srvctl status nodeapps
Workaround:
If required, run the following command on any one node in Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster to start the daemon on all the nodes:
srvctl start nodeapps
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 9075123.
Relinking fails on 32-bit client installations because the relink script tries to load 64-bit libraries.
Workaround:
After installation, manually remove the -d64 flag from JRE_MEMORY_OPTIONS in the $ORACLE_HOME/oui/oraparam.ini file.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 10027801.
After you install Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster and Oracle RAC Database, if you restart one of the nodes, then Oracle Grid Infrastructure fails to start automatically.
Workaround:
Perform the following steps:
Add /usr/bin to the PATH environment variable.
Change "LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8" to "LC_CTYPE=" in file, /etc/default/init.
Or, comment the line:
"#LC_CTYPE==en_US.UTF-8"
Restart the server.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 10124517.
The summary chart on the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cluster Performance page does not show any data.
Workaround:
Perform the following steps:
Stop Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control.
Add the following to the properties file, $ORACLE_HOME/host_dbuniquename/sysman/config/emoms.properties:
oracle.sysman.db.rac.useRemoteCollection=false
Restart the Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 10129539.
There are no known issues at the time of this release.
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E16779-03
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