Problems installing Oracle Database Express Edition 11g

Question

I\'m trying to install Oracle Database in (X)ubuntu 13.04 64-bit using this guide. Everything goed well until I get to the following step:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/ora         


        

Answer 1

I had this exact issue with Ubuntu 14.04. The issue came down to Oracle-XE expecting sufficient space at /dev/shm while ubuntu has changed to using /run/shm with a symlink from /dev/shm.

The solution that worked for me was to create the file /etc/rc2.d/S01shm_load containing:

#!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
start)
    mkdir /var/lock/subsys 2>/dev/null
    touch /var/lock/subsys/listener
    rm /dev/shm 2>/dev/null
    mkdir /dev/shm 2>/dev/null
    mount -t tmpfs shmfs -o size=2048m /dev/shm ;;
*)
    echo error
    exit 1
    ;;    
esac

I got this from http://sysadminnotebook.blogspot.de/2012/10/installing-oracle-11g-r2-express.html which is similar to many other pages on installing XE but was the only one with this solution.

PS. The file permissions are set at 755 so you will need to execute:

sudo chmod 755 /etc/rc2.d/S01shm_load

to set the permissions on this file.