Questions tagged [oracle-linux]
Oracle Linux is a Linux distribution derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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initramfs images gzip compressed on Oracle Linux 8 UEK6 systems but not UEK7
I'm troubleshooting /boot usage differences between Oracle Linux 8 systems that use different UEK kernel streams.
On some hosts, the initramfs images are gzip-compressed, while others produce ...
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Our server has been luks encrypted on its own [closed]
We have a customer oracle 8 server that has been running for over 5 years. We received a call that there was an issue, we could not remotely access the server so we did a physical visit and found this ...
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Dependency issue attempting to install mysql-community-devel
sudo yum install mysql-community-devel
Error: Package: libkadm5-1.15.1-50.el7.x86_64 (olbase)
Requires: krb5-libs(x86-64) = 1.15.1-50.el7
Installed: krb5-libs-1.15.1-55.0.7....
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Using VNC to connect to the Oracle Linux server without DE
On my VM I have installed Oracle Linux 9.6 without any desktop environment, so everything I have there is accessible through CLI. I would like to run Oracle Database GUI installer on that server by ...
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Why is ulimit -l (max locked memory) value 64?
I am trying to prepare the server running Oracle Linux 8.8 for Oracle database 19c installation.
I installed oracle-database-preinstall-19c.rpm and noticed that ulimit -l value is showing unexpected ...
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hugepages allocated via mmap not being freed up by Kernel even after unmounting hugetlbfs filesystem (OL9/UEK7)
We have an c++ application that allocates and uses hugepages memory (via Jemalloc hooks). Chunk (2MB) allocation happens via mmap with protection flags PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE and flags MAP_SHARED | ...
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Performance Degradation with rsync in container or cgroupv2 with MEM limit
I'm experiencing a significant performance degradation when using "rsync" to copy files over the network from within a container or cgroup with memory limits on Oracle Linux 9.2. The issue ...
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Java installation issue on Oracle Linux 7.9: "cannot execute binary file" error
I am trying to install Java on a Linux server.
Linux server details
NAME="Oracle Linux Server"
VERSION="7.9"
System Architecture
x86_64
What I have tried so far
I have downloaded ...
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How to regenerate the rescue kernel from the running/installed kernel in Oracle Linux 8
Once I've deleted all rescue kernel images from my system, I need to regenerate/recreate these images.
The only information I've found was about Fedora (here), so it didn't help me.
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Slow Linux file access to /tmp
time touch /tmp/test.dat
real 0m1.03s
user 0m0.00s
sys 0m1.02s
A full second of sys-mode time to create a file in /tmp. That can become unbearable for ksh scripts that open dozens of files ...
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Problem in HTREE directory inode
I have error in operating system Oracle Linux
cannot startup and got this error
Problem in HTREE directory inode
please see the image error of the system when reboot :
what is the error reason and ...
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100% CPU on 4 of 8 cores on Oracle Linux
I have a desktop computer (Intel i4770) running Oracle Linux 7.9 with kernel 4.1.12-61. I usually keep it off and only turn it on on the rare occasions when I need to test something. A month or so ...
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2nd screen doesn't work anymore
this morning, after last os update (Oracle linux 9.4-1.0.6.el9.x86_64), the system don't detect anymore the 2nd display.
The monitor works fine and also the display port works, I tried with windows os ...
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How to safely remove LVM crash volume?
In an Oracle Linux 9 VM I just created on Azure, I see that the basic setup has a LVM root filesystem, with the root VG separated in
22GB root LV
10GB crash LV
I was wondering, what might be the ...
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Howto extend root partition on Oracle Linux 9 as kvm Guest
I create an Oracle Linux 9.4 as a kvm Guest initially with 40G virtual hard disk
After a while I needed to increase the disk size to 60G so I did it with qemu-img resize /media/kvm/storage1/oracle-9.4 ...
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Failing to upgrade Oracle Linux 7.9 to 8.10 via leapp
Leapp upgrade of Oracle Linux 7.9 to 8.10 fails and drops in emergency mode. This happens when I select EL8 kernel in grub menu. System seems to be working normally with EL7 kernel. Systems are ...
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lvextend not using free space?
Im trying to increase the size of my pv/vg/lv after adding new storage enclosure and I created 2 new volumes and attached the to the host.
While increasing PV and VG worked very well it seems that LV ...
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SSL Handshake Error across several Fresh Oracle Linux 9 Installs
I have been trying to install the latest version of Oracle Linux 9.4, but I am unable use network functionality out-of-the-box or make any SSL connections, like updating packages or browsing the web. ...
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Oracle Linux Kernel cannot be set after OS upgrade
we have two physical machines running Oracle Linux and I was tasked to upgrade them from OL 7.9 to 8.10.
I already did this on the 5 OL VMs we have and it worked fine. The upgrade on the first ...
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Leapp for Oracle Linux 7 to Oracle Linux 9 does not work
I am trying to Upgrade from Oracle Linux 7 to Oracle Linux 8. It does not work at all. I tried to solve dependecies issue by myself. Now I am stucked. I have this error code:
Warning: Packages marked ...
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How Can I Bypass the Btrfs Check When Using Leapp to Upgrade from CentOS 7 to Oracle Linux with UEK Kernel?
I'm attempting to upgrade a CentOS 7 system to Oracle Linux using the Leapp upgrade tool. My system uses Btrfs, and Leapp inhibits the upgrade because of this. However, the UEK kernel from Oracle ...
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sudo passwordless in ssh session not working
In RHEL7, I have the same local users on all machines within my cloud tenancy. That local user is configured in sudoers to be able to:
run all commands,
run sudo commands without password
EDIT: ssh ...
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Oracle Linux VM- run script on startup?
I have essentially zero knowledge about this.
My problem is that I can't find information about how to add a script on startup of a Oracle Linux Virtual Machine- only on one running ubuntu.
How would ...
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Shared folder remounts itself after umount
On a Oracle Linux 7.9 server, I have a directory that is mounted from another system. The fstab entry is:
[email protected]:/opt/commonfiles /opt/commonfiles/ fuse.sshfs identityfile=/home/myuser/....
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Trouble Installing Oracle 19c on Oracle Linux 9
I am following a tutorial to install Oracle 19c on Oracle Linux 9.
If I run the installer (runInstaller) as a non-root user, I get a permissions denied error. But if I run it with sudo, I get Oracle's ...
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docker doesn't use sysctl values from host
I run a linux container on oraclelinux 9 linux host (the host itself runs in a VM).
From where does docker read the sysctl params?
I try change the default value of a sysctl value which docker uses.
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Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
I have ORACLE LINUX server and electricity cut off after start the server I got this error :
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0)
I saw some questions they ...
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After installing my centOS 9 on my oracle VB. It works fine but once I power it off, I won’t be able to boot again. It just keep rotating endlessly
The oracle virtual box was installed on my windows 10 with a 4gb ram.
When installing the centos9 I choose 2gm processor space and 20gb storage space.
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Oracle Linux 8 server won't update because of missing files
I seem to have gotten my server into a wonky state. When doing a "dnf update" I get a bunch of failures like so:
Error unpacking rpm package libgomp-8.5.0-20.0.2.el8.x86_64
Upgrading ...
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Setting up a particular security arrangement
I need to set up a particular security arrangement on an Oracle 8 system.
There will be some users which will be added to a unix group.
These users should not be sudoers/in the wheel group, and ...
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Can't run RPM due to calling hook fsm_file_prepare in selinux plugin on Oracle Linux 9.3
I was doing a standard yum update on my Oracle Linux 9.3 system. Unfortunately it rebooted during the update. Now I can't update anything.
I traced it to a problem in RPM. Any time I try to use RPM to ...
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wifi adapter not found
I have been using oracle 9.2 for one year, no issue with network at all.
Yesterday the system crashed badly and self restarted; at restart the wifi adapter had simply disappear, on settings menu the ...
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Oracle Linux 7 graphical.target service don't start automatically
I was upgraded a oracle linux from version 6.10 to 7.6
after finish operation graphical interface don't tart automatically and must be start manually with startx.
when get status of service show this:
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What is the intended way to set `cpupower` on boot?
Running cpupower frequency-set -g powersave is a one-shot. I could think of a number of ways to make this happen on boot (rc.local, systemd one-shot, etc)...
Question: Is there a "correct" ...
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How to install newer packages on Oracle Linux?
On Oracle Linux, how to install newer packages?
For example, yum install -y wireshark; wireshark --version gives Wireshark 2.6.2,
but upstream is at Wireshark 4.0.6. I have Last metadata expiration ...
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How to restart sshd after assembly?
it is necessary to update the openssh server to the latest version, since everything is closed, it has come to manually assemble it
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-pam --with-selinux --with-privsep-...
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Yum install not recognizing specific version of JDK package on Oracle Linux 7.9
I am trying to install jdk 1.8.0_311 using yum install. However, I am getting an error stating that there is "nothing to do" when attempting to install.
I have used
yum --showduplicates list ...
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How to change DST start and end dates for a timezone in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Linux?
DST start and end dates keep changing over the years for different timezones. For example, I found below link where DST start and end dates are provided for EST for different years. https://www....
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Unable to install Xfce on Oracle Linux Server 9.1
I am unable to install Xfce on Oracle Linux Server 9.1.
I have a server built with the Server, Container Management, and Headless Management groups installed, and have connected to the EPEL repository....
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Oracle Linux 8.x - Performance Test (Stress / Load / IO / Network Usage / Memory Usage)
I want to do performance test on Oracle Linux 8 KVM guest server (It will be used as Application server (WLS 14c) and/or Oracle DB server).
What are the best tools I can provide this with? I saw an ...
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I need to rsync from Ora1 vpn (as user michal) and rsync files into Ora2 vpn (as user srv_data). User 'michal' is in wheel grp on both Ora1 and Ora2
Hello Unix enthusiasts.
I have two vpms called Ora1 and Ora2.
I need to synchronize the contents of /DATA/ directory from Ora1, into the same /DATA/ directory located on the Ora2 vpm.
Ora1 /DATA/ ...
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Update package perl-*
I have a linux machine Oracle Linux Server 8.7 with kernel 5.4.17-2136.317.5.3.el8uek.x86_64.
Using the yum check-update command, I noticed that there are a number of perl-packages that I can't update....
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Does Yum support a drop directory for its configuration?
Some tools configuration supports drop directories to alter or append the configuration without changing the distributed configuration file, for example, /etc/sudoers.d and so on.
I wanted to know, ...
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Bash Script to output various data about a directory? (Directory owner, number of files, name/size of biggest file) [duplicate]
I am still very new to Linux, and I am tasked with writing a bash script that outputs various details inside a menu box. These details include:
Directory owner/permissions,
Number of files in ...
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-bash: /usr/lib/oracle/19.10/client64/bin/sqlplus: No such file or directory
I'm trying to run Oracle Linux 9(aarch64) on M2 MacBook Air using UTM, so that I can develop my python application that is required to connect to Oracle Database 11g.
Because the python app requires ...
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Permission denied with locate command in Shell Script in Oracle Linux?
I am trying to run a shell script that contains the command
$locate /etc/*.conf
to find all files in /etc/ that end in .conf, but whenever I run the script the command line says /etc/chrony.conf: ...
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Error message in check-update regarding httpd
I am using Oracle Linux 9. I have installed Apache server by this module: mod_h264_streaming-2.2.7-17.fc37.x86_64.rpm
Also, I need three repositories EPEL, raven and remi repo.
The problem is, when I ...
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Oracle Linux: How can I source route from 2 interfaces with public addresses on the same host using nmcli?
I have an Oracle Linux 8 machine with two public addresses, similar to this example config (private addresses in example):
ens224: connected to ens224
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ip4 default
inet4 ...
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SSH authentication failure via password
I help manage a handful of workstations running RHEL8/OL8 in a development environment. The devs typically access these workstations remotely via SSH. Some of the devs are encountering a strange issue ...
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Installing oracle-database-preinstall-21c - Oracle Linux
I am completely new to the Linux world. I am following a course on Udemy and trying to install the Oracle database on Oracle Linux 9.1.
One of the prerequisites is to run the following command:
dnf ...