Oracle EBS R12.2.5 Installation

Navigate to ../startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz an launch rapidwiz

As you can see from below the installation is going to include Oracle 12cR1 RDBMS.

Review and click ‘Next’

Select ‘Install Oracle E-Business Suite Release R12.2.0’, click ‘Next’

Select ‘Create a new configuration’, click ‘Next’

Update Port Pool if required, click ‘Next’

Update Database Node Configuration, click ‘Next’

Update Application Node Configuration, click ‘Next’

Update Application User Information, click ‘Next’

Review node information, click ‘Next’

Review ‘Validate System Configuration’, click ‘Next’

Review summary, click ‘Next’

Click ‘Next’ to start install

Missing Java library

The above failure is due to a missing java library file, this can be fixed with the below.

$ORACLE_HOME/javavm/jdk/jdk7/lib/libjavavm12.a lib to $ORACLE_HOME/lib/

If your quick you can copy it whilst rapidwiz is installing the Oracle Home, otherwise you will have to clean-up the oraInventory and star rapidwiz again.

RMAN failure

The installer will try to restore the data files using RMAN, previous releases just unzipped the files, the installer will continue for a while until.

RMAN-04014: startup failed: ORA-01127: database name ‘OLDDBNAME’ exceeds size limit of 8 characters

This can be fixed by updating the RMANinit.ora file and restarting rapidwiz e.g.

/u01/oracle/VIS/12.1.0/dbs/RMANinit.ora
db_name=OLDDBNAME
to
db_name=VIS

Perl Segmentation fault

Another, problem you may encounter with your Oracle EBS R12.2.5 install is a perl ‘Segmentation fault’

$ pwd
/u01/oracle/VIS/12.1.0/perl/bin
$ ./perl -v
Segmentation fault

$ cd $ORACLE_HOME
$ mv perl/ perl.old/
$ mkdir perl

Change directory back to your downloaded version and re-compile.

$ cd
$ cd perl/perl-5.14.1
$./Configure -des -Dprefix=$ORACLE_HOME/perl -Doptimize=-O3 -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Duserelocatableinc ; make clean ; make ; make install

$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/perl
$ rm -rf lib/ man/
$ cp -r ../perl.old/lib/ .
$ cp -r ../perl.old/man/ .
$ cp ../perl.old/bin/dbilogstrip bin/
$ cp ../perl.old/bin/dbiprof bin/
$ cp ../perl.old/bin/dbiproxy bin/
$ cp ../perl.old/bin/ora_explain bin/

Rapidwiz Completion

Once the installed is complete you can now confirm your EBS and database versions using the following:

SQL> select release_name from apps.fnd_product_groups;
SQL> select * from v$version;

In part III of this BLOG series I will share the steps to upgrade from R12.2.0 to R12.2.5

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