Hey Eric,
I can't tell you much more about the problem. There are no mentions of errors
within the syslog and the only evidence of a problem are the missing files.
Here's a snapshot of the system:
carroll@developer2:/proc > cat meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 1054019584 893939712 160079872 0 73134080 607117312
Swap: 2147467264 0 2147467264
MemTotal: 1029316 kB
MemFree: 156328 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 71420 kB
Cached: 592888 kB
Active: 7200 kB
Inact_dirty: 575784 kB
Inact_clean: 81324 kB
Inact_target: 12 kB
HighTotal: 131072 kB
HighFree: 21560 kB
LowTotal: 898244 kB
LowFree: 134768 kB
SwapTotal: 2097136 kB
SwapFree: 2097136 kB
carroll@developer2:/proc > cat partitions
major minor #blocks name
3 0 60051600 hda
3 1 56196 hda1
3 2 1052257 hda2
3 3 58942485 hda3
58 0 2097152 lvma
58 1 4194304 lvmb
58 2 12582912 lvmc
58 3 8388608 lvmd
58 4 2097152 lvme
tcarroll@developer2:/proc > cat version
Linux version 2.4.4-xfs (root@developer2) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
) #2 SMP Fri May 11 05:48:18 EDT 2001
tcarroll@developer2:/proc > cat cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 747.543
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips : 1490.94
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 747.543
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 3
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips : 1494.22
tcarroll@developer2:/proc > cat mounts
/dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
/dev/vol0/usr /usr xfs rw 0 0
/dev/vol0/var /var xfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/vol0/home /home xfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/vol0/oracle /oracle xfs rw 0 0
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 07:44:30PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Tom Carroll wrote:
>
> > When using the oracle(81701) install on a xfs filesystem, the install fails
> > as it attempts to read/write state files.
>
> ...
>
> > info from installActions.log
> >
> > Unable to read /oracle/oraInventory/Contents/CompsList0.ser. Some inventory
> > information may be lost.
> > Unable to read /oracle/oraInventory/Contents/PatchesList0.ser. Some
> > inventory information may be lost.
>
> Hi Tom - We'll probably need a little more info on that one... "Unable
> to read" is a little vague! Are there any other error messages in the
> system logs?
>
> I can see if anyone in Mtn. View or Eagan has Oracle to test this with -
> I don't have it here.
>
> -Eric
>
> --
> Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> sandeen@xxxxxxx SGI, Inc.
>
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