[Zope-DB] Oracle problems! Can anyone help!

Iain Anderson jethro.anderson@bristol.ac.uk
Tue, 04 Dec 2001 12:31:37 -0000


Ensure that LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib is in your Zope start file ?

--On Tuesday, December 04, 2001 12:08 PM +0000 Tim Bailey 
<tdb@mcrane.co.uk> wrote:

> I have recently jumped in at the deep end and indulged myself in Zope
> after it being dicussed with a work college.
>
> The first pleasant surprise was that Zope was Python based and after only
> learning Python several months ago was pleased not to have to learn
> something else.
>
> We use Oracle for our company's data and after compiling the original
> DCOracle on a Windows PC to use with Python scripts, was happy and
> content. I now have downloaded the ZOracleDA or DCOracle2 and after
> spending a few days to get it working on Windows I am now trying to
> installing it on our Linux 6.2 machine with Zope already up and running.
>
> This is where my problems begin.
>
> Oracle Server 8.1.6 is already installed and working fine.  I also have a
> TNS setup to look on a Unix machine with Oracle installed and this works
> fine too.  When I run the install.py to try and use the supplied binaries
> this is the error I get:
>
> [zadmin@mcllinux ZOracleDA]$ $ZOPE_HOME/bin/python install.py
> Installing: binary release for Python 2.1
> ... test loading DCOracle2 ...
> ERROR: DCOracle2 failed to load
>
> The most likely reason DCOracle2 failed to load is a platform
> binary mismatch between your version of Oracle and the
> version of Oracle the pre-built binary was compiled against,
> Oracle 8i.  You can either rebuild DCOracle2 from source, or
> install Oracle 8i client libraries on your computer.  You
> may be able to obtain Oracle client libraries at
> http://technet.oracle.com
>
> The python error message is:
> exceptions.ImportError: libclntsh.so.8.0: cannot open shared object file:
> No suc
> h file or directory
>
>
> I therefore assumed that I would need to build the dco2(.so) from scratch
> and promptly delved into trying to use make.  This did not go to plan and
> consequently it didn't work and returned the following:
>
> [zadmin@mcllinux ZOracleDA]$ make
> (cd src; \
> ./testora /usr/local/zope/2-4-3/bin )
> /bin/sh: ./testora: No such file or directory
> make: *** [.config] Error 126
>
> I would really appreciate some help on this as Zope is definitely the way
> forward but we need to get it fully functional on our Linux PC as the site
> is getting bigger and my PC can't handle it!!
>
> Regards,
>
> a very frustrated
>
> Tim Bailey
>
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Jethro Anderson
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