Oracle9iR2 post installation procedure on a shrink-wrapped Red Hat 9 and the freely downloadable version.

Start with rpmbuild of glibc-2.3.2-11.9.rmp following [1]:

1.Download from redhat.com required version of  src.rpm for glibc,
  supposedly   glibc-2.3.2-11.9.src.rpm

2. rpm   -i   glibc-2.3.2-11.9.src.rpm

3. cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

4 bzip2  -dc glibc-2.3.2-200313.tar.bz2 | tar xf  -  -C  /tmp

5.cd /tmp/glibc-2.3.2-200313/locale

6. Comment out all compat_symbols lines from lc-ctype.c

7. cd ../ctype

8. Comment out all compat_symbols lines from ctype-info.c

9. cd ..;cd ..;pwd
   /tmp

10. tar cvf glibc-2.3.2-200313.tar glibc-2.3.2-200313

11. bzip2 glibc-2.3.2-200313.tar

11. cp glibc-2.3.2-200313.tar.bz2 /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

12. cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS

13. vi glbc-9.spec

14.  Add to the end of glibcrelease line (line 1)   .oracle.
       (11.9 now looks like 11.9.oracle)
       and save
15. rpmbuild -ba  /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/glbc-9.spec

 In my case,at the end rpms were written to /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 folder

16.Download from [1]:

      Updated i386 RPMS

	glibc-2.3.2-27.9.7.oracle.i386.rpm 
	glibc-common-2.3.2-27.9.7.oracle.i386.rpm 
	glibc-debug-2.3.2-27.9.7.oracle.i386.rpm 
	glibc-debuginfo-2.3.2-27.9.7.oracle.i386.rpm 
	glibc-debuginfo-common-2.3.2-27.9.7.oracle.i386.rpm 
	glibc-devel-2.3.2-27.9.7.oracle.i386.rpm 
	glibc-profile-2.3.2-27.9.7.oracle.i386.rpm 
	glibc-utils-2.3.2-27.9.7.oracle.i386.rpm 
	nscd-2.3.2-27.9.7.oracle.i386.rpm
AND

Updated i686 RPMS

	glibc-2.3.2-27.9.7.oracle.i686.rpm

Start rmps upgrade based on predefined dependencies.
There are no any warnings in [1] regarding i386.rpms and i686rpms
dependencies:

[root@ServerDBS inst_patch]# rpm -Uvh glibc-2.3.2-27.9.7.oracle.i686.rpm 
  glibc-common-2.3.2-27.9.7.oracle.i386.rpm 
  glibc-utils-2.3.2-27.9.7.oracle.i386.rpm 
  glibc-debug-2.3.2-27.9.7.oracle.i386.rpm 
  glibc-devel-2.3.2-27.9.7.oracle.i386.rpm

Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:glibc-common           ########################################### [ 20%]
   2:glibc                  ########################################### [ 40%]
Stopping sshd:[  OK  ]
Starting sshd:[  OK  ]
   3:glibc-devel            ########################################### [ 60%]
   4:glibc-utils            ########################################### [ 80%]
   5:glibc-debug            ########################################### [100%]

[root@ServerDBS inst_patch]# rpm -Uvh glibc-debuginfo-2.3.2-27.9.7.oracle.i386.rpm 
  glibc-debuginfo-common-2.3.2-27.9.7.oracle.i386.rpm

Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:glibc-debuginfo-common ########################################### [ 50%]
   2:glibc-debuginfo        ########################################### [100%]

[root@ServerDBS inst_patch]# rpm -Uvh glibc-profile-2.3.2-27.9.7.oracle.i386.rpm 
    nscd-2.3.2-27.9.7.oracle.i386.rpm

Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:nscd                   ########################################### [ 50%]
   2:glibc-profile          ########################################### [100%]

Now rpm will report you:-
# rpm -q glibc
glibc-2.3.2-27.9.7.oracle



At this point two fix steps should be performed by oracle .
First one is well known and described in [2] and [3].
Second one is silently skipped in both [1] and [2].
Second step is linking dbsnmp daemon and cannot be missed,
unless you have glibc-2.3.2-5 on your Red Hat 9 distribution CD's set
Please, view [3] for details about glibc-2.3.2-5.i686.rpm in Red Hat 9
box distribution CD's set and another suggestion to perform the same
Work Around as preinstallation step.
My Red Hat 9 box CD's set containes the only glibc-2.3.2-11.9.i686.rpm



First:

$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/network/lib

$ make -f ins_net_client.mk install

Edit $ORACLE_HOME/ctx/lib/ins_ctx.mk file. 
Change lines 13-14 from: 

ctxhx: $(CTXHXOBJ)
$(LINK) $(CTXHXOBJ) $(INSO_LINK)

to
ctxhx: $(CTXHXOBJ)
$(LINK) -ldl $(CTXHXOBJ) $(INSO_LINK)

$ make -f $ORACLE_HOME/ctx/lib/ins_ctx.mk install

Second:

$make -f   $ORACLE_HOME/network/lib/ins_oemagent.mk install

This time Second Step should be OK due to patched rpms have been installed.
Now dbsnmp is properly linked and brings back to life "Intelligent Agent"
Then grab from $ORACLE_HOME/root.sh all commands required
to install right permissions for dbsnmp and dependent directories and
run them as root.
Next steps:

$agentctl start

$oemctl start oms

You are ready to run OEM console.


References:


1.http://mlug.missouri.edu/~jmcintosh/computers/oracle/redhat/9/rpms/
2.http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2003/09/04/oracle_install.html?page=2
3.http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle9i.html