[LUNI] RH Linux/Oracle problems

[Jay Strauss]

Curt Crandall wrote:
> I don't have a strong background in setting up and
> troubleshooting Oracle databases, so I'm hoping
> someone here can give me some hints in order to
> resolve issues we are having with Oracle 10g AS and
> Oracle 9i DB on Red Hat AS 3.0.
> 
> There are three issues we are running into:
> 
> 1.) Report server is not supporting certain character
> sets.  For instance, the TM symbol will not display.
> 2.) Reports will not print through the reports server.
>  The DST file seems to be missing.
> 3.) Constant DB crashes... hardware has been ruled
> out.
> 
> I'm sorry I cannot be more specific.  I do not have
> access to these systems and I'm going through an
> account manager to find out about these issues that
> are happening at a remote site.  However, any ideas at
> all would be helpful.
> 
> Thanks
> Curt

Curt,

I've been running Oracle (the database only) on Linux (Debian) for a 
number of years.  I've found version 9 (in general) to NOT be very 
stable on Linux, I'm currently on 10.1.0.3/Sarge and its the best combo 
I've used.

Can you version up?  It sounds like this could not be a production box 
since the DB is crashing.

Do you have the NLS_LANG environmental variable set?

Do you have technet.oracle.com account setup?
Do you have a metalink.oracle.com account setup?

Both of which are good places to find threads about issues/resolution

Jay