Dec
16
Oracle XE reinstallation woes
Argggghhh! After spending most of the day trying to reproduce yesterday’s successful Oracle XE installation, I finally figured out why it wouldn’t work. The shared memory segment for Oracle wasn’t being released (I don’t know why) when the RPM was uninstalled, and each time I installed after that, the startup script refused to create a second instance of XE.
I used ipcs to find the shared memory segments and ipcrm to remove them.
Why would I want to keep reinstalling Oracle XE on the same machine? It’s because I’m developing a deployment script to use via the nice (and new, with growing pains) deployment tool called Fabric: http://www.nongnu.org/fab/
