[Zope-DB] DCOracle2 "Unable to determine Oracle version strings"

[Cynthia Kiser]

Hmmmm. I don't have the identical setup - I am running Zope 2.7.0 on
RedHat 7.3. But I don't have anything in my zope.conf that is Oracle
related. But the user I am running this as has the following
environment: 

$ env | grep -i ora

ORACLE_SID=dev
ORACLE_BASE=/ora
ORACLE_HOME=/ora/product/8.1.7
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/software/lib:/usr/lib:/ora/product/8.1.7/lib
PATH=/software/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/ora/product/8.1.7/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

Is the database on the same machine as your Zope client? 

Quoting Martinez, Michael <MMARTINEZ at CSREES.USDA.GOV>:
> Correct, I did not see errors during the build process. But, I've
> already got $ORACLE_HOME set for the user. 
> 
> Quoting Martinez, Michael <MMARTINEZ at CSREES.USDA.GOV>:
> > I've got DCOracle2 installed on Redhat ES2.1, Python 2.3.4, and Zope
> > 2.7.1. Zope manager -> Z Oracle Database connection -> Debug says
> > "Unable to determine Oracle version strings" and is unable to connect
> to
> > the database.
> 
> You did not seen any complaints about not finding Oracle version info
> when you built DCOracle2, right? So DCOracle was probably installed
> correctly. See if setting the environment variable $ORACLE_HOME for
> the user your server runs as helps.

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Cynthia Kiser