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Oracle 18c XE - Win10 Pro - installation hangs

AAndreiJan 23 2020 — edited Mar 26 2020

Hello,

I am trying to install Oracle 18c XE on Win10 Pro with admin privileges and at about 90-95% progress, it just hangs ("Creating Oracle XE Database")... even when i cancel the operation, after i confirm that i want to cancel it, it doesn't do anything, so the only way to interrupt it is by ending the task. Afterwards, if i try to run the installer again, it says that Oracle is already installed, so i have to uninstall it manually (delete Oracle Win registers, Oracle home directory, Windows user/groups).

I've checked the previous conversations regarding this issue, applied the possible solutions (NetBIOS enabled) and still i get the same result.

Can you please advice what should i try to solve/get around this problem?

Please let me know if i need to attach any logs.

All the best,

Andrei

Comments

Billy Verreynne

Sounds like the installer attempted to resolve your Windows platform's hostname to an IP address and failed.
What is the primary IP of your platform? Is it DHCP? If so, what assigns the IPs (home router/VPN/etc) and hostname? (use ipconfig to check IP configuration).
If the db installation part succeeded, then getting the Listener working should be trivial. Is the Oracle XE database instance up and running, and can you connect to it using "sqlplus / as sysdba"?

Eslam_Elbyaly

I am sorry. It does not say "Configuring Listener", it says "Configuring Oracle Software". I edited the question.
No sqlplus or any binaries. It's just about 4 folders. Each with a couple of files.
my pc is not connected to a router or anything. I just installed the Lan driver.
ipconfig just shows "media disconnected".
I tried assigning an IP manually but did not work. I even opened the "hosts" file and added a new line with the manual IP I assigned like this.... "192.168.1.1 localhost" without quotes. Always the same problem.

Billy Verreynne

Do NOT set other addresses as localhost.
What is your platform's NetBIOS name? Typically the same name is used as IP hostname.
A "ping <hostname>" should work. If not then it is unlikely that Oracle will work correctly.
You can try adding your hostname to IP 127.0.0.1 in \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (think that's the location). No idea however how your kernel's networking in general will react to it. So undo it in case of encountering errors.
The 127.0.0.0 subnet is yours though. You can look at adding IPs to it for local only hosts and networking via the IP stack's loopback interface.
Recommendation however is a working LAN config.

Eslam_Elbyaly

Do NOT set other addresses as localhost.
There was not any addresses set in the hosts file. All are commented like this...

#127.0.0.1 localhost
#::1 localhost
ping localhost returns.....
reply from ::1: time<1ms
reply from ::1: time<1ms
reply from ::1: time<1ms
reply from ::1: time<1ms
I tried adding 127.0.0.1 localhost and ahmed-PC(my computers name) to the hosts file with no vain.

Billy Verreynne

Your hosts file should look as follows:

127.0.0.1 localhost 
::1       ip6-localhost ip6-loopback 
fe00::0   ip6-localnet 
ff00::0   ip6-mcastprefix 
ff02::1   ip6-allnodes 
ff02::2   ip6-allrouters

You can try adding your PC name to 127.0.0.1:

127.0.0.1  localhost ahmed-pc

However, you should instead define a network interface with a private address such as 192.168.0.11/24.

Eslam_Elbyaly

unfortunately, I figured out that it needs a network specialist or something. I dropped windows 7 and installed windows 8.1 and the database was installed successfully. Thanks Billy for your help.

Billy Verreynne

You should consider dropping Windows entirely for Linux.
And despite the vaccine jab, I still prefer Linux and don't like Gates and Windows. My 5G reception though is now excellent.

Eslam_Elbyaly

Do you mean Oracle Linux? Or another distribution?

Billy Verreynne

I prefer Ubuntu with KDE, called Kubuntu. Ubuntu has excellent device support for laptops and desktops (am using it for both). Plasma KDE is the best desktop GUI.
Been using Kubuntu now for over a decade for Oracle database development and administration and support. Am using Oracle InstantClient (with sqlplus) and SQL-Developer on it. Been using Linux as a desktop for over 20 years.
Oracle however does not support the Debian branch for their db server s/w - they use the Redhat branch. Oracle XE 10g works on Ubuntu, but XE 18c does not.
So I use vagrant on Kubuntu - git clone https://github.com/oracle/vagrant-projects
This has vagrant builds for everything from Oracle RAC, DataGuard, GoldenGate, to Oracle XE.
Change dir to ./vagrant-projects/OracleDatabase/18.4.0.-XE and run vagrant up. Some minutes later you have an Oracle Linux 7 VM running an Oracle XE 18c database.

Billy Verreynne

Oh yeah - alternatives to the typical Windows user s/w stack:
MS Office replaced with Libre (Open) Office. Outlook replaced by Web Outlook. MS Teams Linux version used, or the web-based Teams can be used. Zoom supports Linux. KDE Konsole instead of Putty. Chrome/Firefox instead of Edge/IE11.
No anti-virus needed. And your laptop/desktop will be untouched in a ransome ware attack.
Tons of free Open Source s/w available.
Freedom to choose and configure and install and upgrade.
edit: PS. and OpenConnect for VPN access instead of Cisco AnyConnect.

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