Surprising Little change in 11g NetCA

I was working on Oracle 11g trying to troubleshoot some weird x-windows issues that is totally unrelated to the actual project I was involved in.

The issue was that, the Oracle binaries were moved from LOC-A to LOC-B. Things were working fine as usual as this is no big deal. But after a few days we wanted to run NetCA and the GUI would not start. Initially since the environment is completed handled via remote vncservers, it was thought that perhaps the issue had to do with DISPLAY setup and such. Troubleshooting DISPLAY settings came out with nothing.

Then came the idea to look into the netca script itself.

Here is where I found an interesting change.

In 11g, the ORACLE_HOME variable is hard coded based on the initial installation of the binaries. Like this:

vi..Netca file and you will see...

ORACLE_HOME=/apps/ora11rac/product/11.1/db_1

However, I checked a 10g binary installation and this one seems to go after the
$ORACLE_HOME environment variable, which is good.


10g


case $ORACLE_HOME in
"") echo "****ORACLE_HOME environment variable not set!"
echo " ORACLE_HOME should be set to the main"
echo " directory that contains Oracle products."
echo " Set and export ORACLE_HOME, then re-run."
exit 1;;
esac