OS X Lion - Installing Oracle 10g Standard Edition

Question

I'm trying to install Oracle 10g on to OS X Lion. I have previous achieved this on Snow Leopard with the following tutorial.

The issue I'm having is that the ulimit settings in the oracle/.bash_profile cannot be modified.

I have the following in the bash_profile:

export DISPLAY=:0.0
export ORACLE_BASE=$HOME
umask 022
# must match `sysctl kern.maxprocperuid`
ulimit -Hu 512
ulimit -Su 512
# must match `sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc`
ulimit -Hn 10240
ulimit -Sn 10240

Upon applying the bash_profile settings . ~/.bash_profile I get the following error:

-bash: ulimit: max user processes: cannot be modify limit: Invalid argument

This then results in $ sqlplus / as sysdba not functioning correctly with a Segmentation fault: 11

The output of $ ulimit -a

core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                      (-n) 10240
pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 1
stack size              (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes              (-u) 512
virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited

If any one knows how I can apply these ulimit settings to the oracle user I have created to allow me to install sqlplus and therefore create a db, that would be great.

Solution

How about trying to compile and install oracle and sqlplus on leopard and after moving the pieces to lion? e.g. sqlplus, tnsnames, oracle and so on in bin folder?

I found a similar solution here for snow leopard (the problem of segmentation was that binaries were compiled in 32bit mode under leopard then ported to 64bit snow leopard or something similar..)

Comments

[Cellze]

@sathya any explanation as to why?

[100rabh]

from what I've read Lion brings in soem changes which breaks things - like setting up of ulimit

[Cellze]

@sathya do you have the links, wouldn't mind reading up on that

[100rabh]

ye, have a look at this thread news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2785278

[Cellze]

Just an update on this. I have found that the subtle differences found in oracle versions between Mac OS X and Linux has now pushed me to install a VM to mirror a production server setup as close as possible.

[Cellze]

helps if i read my own comments # must match 'sysctl kern.maxprocperuid'in my .bash_profile, will try this out and let you know how i get on

[mluisbrown]

you'll get past the .bash_profile issue, but the "Segmentation Fault: 11" error is a showstopper that no one has managed to solve AFAIK. I've resorted to running Oracle in a Linux virtual machine on my Mac and it seems to work well.

[Cellze]

As per my comments on the initial post I was already using the blog.rayapps.com references that your blog cites. I don't believe there is anything new that would help in this situation.