From: Gerry Lawrence Date: 21:46 on 24 Oct 2007 Subject: Special hate for Oracle. ------=_Part_9294_19393282.1193258764041 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Like most IT types, I've hated a lot of software in my life, that's just part for the course. But there's a special place in hell for Oracle. Oracle is such a overdeveloped, poorly designed worthless piece of crap that I don't know why I actually expect anything but pain and suffering every time I need to get it to do something. Oracle installs can be "automated". You basically take a text file (called a response file) and feed it into the installer (runInstaller). That's nice. So maybe you want to combine your oracle install with your kickstart install. Aren't we clever! Sounds great -- press the button and presto! The operating system is installed along with oracle. Only one problem. Even though (in "silent, automatic" batch mode) runInstaller needs no interaction with the human and never opens a window, it absolutely needs an X server to run. It will bail out without one. So now I gotta start an X serrver _during kickstart_???? You gotta fucking be kidding me. I gotta figure out some sort of fake X server to run? Or I could keep an X server running somewhere on the network with X open to the host and set the DISPLAY environment variable to point to it. Oracle programmers are cretinous fucking morons. Die, Oracle, Die. DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE. ------=_Part_9294_19393282.1193258764041 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <br>Like most IT types, I've hated a lot of software in my life, that's just part for the course.<br><br>But there's a special place in hell for Oracle. Oracle is such a overdeveloped, poorly designed worthless piece of crap <br>that I don't know why I actually expect anything but pain and suffering every time I need to get it to do something.<br><br>Oracle installs can be "automated". You basically take a text file (called a response file) and feed it into <br>the installer (runInstaller). That's nice. So maybe you want to combine your oracle install with your kickstart install.<br>Aren't we clever! Sounds great -- press the button and presto! The operating system is installed along with oracle. <br><br>Only one problem. Even though (in "silent, automatic" batch mode) runInstaller needs no interaction with the human and never<br>opens a window, it absolutely needs an X server to run. It will bail out without one. <br><br>So now I gotta start an X serrver _during kickstart_???? You gotta fucking be kidding me. I gotta figure out some<br>sort of fake X server to run? Or I could keep an X server running somewhere on the network with X open to the host <br>and set the DISPLAY environment variable to point to it. <br><br>Oracle programmers are cretinous fucking morons.<br><br>Die, Oracle, Die. DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE.<br><br><br><br> ------=_Part_9294_19393282.1193258764041--
From: Benjamin Reed Date: 21:55 on 24 Oct 2007 Subject: Re: Special hate for Oracle. Gerry Lawrence wrote: > So now I gotta start an X serrver _during kickstart_???? You gotta > fucking be kidding me. I gotta figure out some > sort of fake X server to run? Or I could keep an X server running > somewhere on the network with X open to the host > and set the DISPLAY environment variable to point to it. AFAIK they use a java thing to install, don't they? Does it work if you add -Djava.awt.headless=true to the command-line?
From: Gerry Lawrence Date: 22:08 on 24 Oct 2007 Subject: Re: Special hate for Oracle. ------=_Part_9401_11557143.1193260110303 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 10/24/07, Benjamin Reed <rangerrick@xxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > Gerry Lawrence wrote: > > > So now I gotta start an X serrver _during kickstart_???? You gotta > > fucking be kidding me. I gotta figure out some > > sort of fake X server to run? Or I could keep an X server running > > somewhere on the network with X open to the host > > and set the DISPLAY environment variable to point to it. > > AFAIK they use a java thing to install, don't they? Does it work if you > add -Djava.awt.headless=true to the command-line? > > That would be nice. But nooooo. /data/Disk1/runInstaller -Djava.awt.headless=true -silent -responseFile /home/oracle/oracle123.rsp [...] DISPLAY not set. Please set the DISPLAY and try again. And Oracle apparently statically compiles in the Xlibs, otherwise I'd even compile a fake set of libs. I might be able to start a server with a frame buffer driver. DIE ORACLE DIE.
From: Benjamin Reed Date: 22:10 on 24 Oct 2007 Subject: Re: Special hate for Oracle. Gerry Lawrence wrote: > /data/Disk1/runInstaller -Djava.awt.headless=true -silent -responseFile > /home/oracle/oracle123.rsp > > [...] > DISPLAY not set. Please set the DISPLAY and try again. Wow, that's... lame.
From: Gerry Lawrence Date: 22:14 on 24 Oct 2007 Subject: Re: Special hate for Oracle. ------=_Part_9413_21659365.1193260447136 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline There's a wrapper script that does a check -- that's easy to edit/defeat -- so I did. I even passed the -Djava.awt.headless=true to the actual compiled runInstaller -- no joy. ORACLE=LAME ASS SHIT. On 10/24/07, Benjamin Reed <rangerrick@xxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > Gerry Lawrence wrote: > > > /data/Disk1/runInstaller -Djava.awt.headless=true -silent -responseFile > > /home/oracle/oracle123.rsp > > > > [...] > > DISPLAY not set. Please set the DISPLAY and try again. > > Wow, that's... lame. > >
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