sudo yum install icedtea-web
sudo vi /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.95.x86_64/jre/ lib/security/java.security
jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=
Please note that my fast track posts are intended for lab use only.
If you ever have to restore the Oracle Virtual Machine Manager database using the provided RestoreDatabase.sh, chances are that you will end up with a bunch of corrupted or missing tables in the back-end MySQL database schema. Specifically, all tables with 0 rows will be dysfunctional after successful restore. In turn this prevents management of compute-nodes, virtual machines and other resources.
I don’t know which other versions of OVM might be affected, but the latest 2.0.2 software release for the Virtual Compute Appliance certainly is.
I wrote a workaround that will identify, drop and re-create the corrupted tables. No guarantees, but it did the trick here. Perhaps it can save someone a bit of a headache.
===== CUSTOMER BUG REPORT =====Description
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Assorted errors related to missing tables after restoring OVMM database using provided tools.
Example:
While trying to stop a VM server:
OVMAPI_6000E Internal Error: Caught during commit: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Table ‘ovs.Mgr_ServerStoppingEvent’ doesn’t exist
Affected Versions
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Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance Software Release 2.0.2
Oracle VM Manager Software Release 3.2.8.x
Working Theory
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All ovs tables with 0 rows are corrupted during restore.
Steps to repdroduce
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1. Restore OVMM database using /u01/app/oracle/ovm-manager-3/ovm_shell/tools/RestoreDatabase.sh
2. Query all tables in ovs schema
3. Look for ERROR 1146
Workaround
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1)
service ovmm stop ; service ovmm_mysql stop
2)
sudo -u oracle /bin/bash /u01/app/oracle/ovm-manager-3/ovm_shell/tools/RestoreDatabase.sh AutoFullBackup-20150510_0100
3)
service ovmm_mysql start
4)
This should identify, drop and re-create affected tables:
/usr/bin/mysql -D ovs -b -f -s -u root -pWelcome1 -S /u01/app/oracle/mysql/data/mysqld.sock -e “show tables;” | awk ‘{print “select count(*) from ” $1 “;” }’ | /usr/bin/mysql -D ovs -b -f -s -u root -pWelcome1 -S /u01/app/oracle/mysql/data/mysqld.sock 2>&1 >/dev/null | grep “ERROR 1146” | awk –field-separator=\’ ‘{print “drop table ” $2 “;\ncreate table ” $2″(m_id bigint,m_data longblob,primary key (m_id));”}’ | /usr/bin/mysql -D ovs -b -f -s -u root -pWelcome1 -S /u01/app/oracle/mysql/data/mysqld.sock
5)
service ovmm start
If you’re having a rather dull afternoon at the office, and you happen to have an OVCA as your personal playground, you can always try this little trick to spice up your day: Point your browser to the Oracle VM Manager, look for the the network configuration tab and attempt to make the storage and heartbeat network available to virtual machines. I can virtually promise you that your day will be more interesting. Much more. Almost instantly.
ovca_network.png
Without spoiling all of the little surprises, I can disclose that you will have some enlightening moments watching the first compute node (typically ovcacn07r1) head for a rapid reboot, just as soon as the cluster watchdog sees that the OCFS2 voting drive is no longer responding. Granted, it may take a few moments for it to notice, but I can assure you that it’s worth waiting for. You see, it will leave behind an inconsistent Oracle VM Pool, which in turn will trigger dozens of interesting events.
If and when you manage to start any of the lost guest machines, the fun increases as you can watch the pool balancer continuously migrating machines from one compute node to the next. Personally I found this last bit absolutely fascinating. For an additional kick, try having an open ssh session to one such machine.
I will leave the rest for you to figure out. Tons of fun!
Now, if on the other hand, you have an OVCA running, say, a production workload, I strongly suggest you keep your VMs very much isolated from the 192.168.40.0 network.
Well, unless you are you are really, really, really bored and you, preferably, get paid by the hour.
For this recipe we need ghostscript which is/should be installed by default, as well as pdftk and xpdf-utils:
apt-get install pdftk sudo apt-get install xpdf-utils
If the PDF is encrypted with a password, remove it using xpdf-utils and ghostscript:
pdftops -upw PASSWORD encrypted.pdf ps2pdf encrypted.ps plaintext.pdf
Now remove the watermark with sed and repair it with pdftk, assuming the file name is plaintext.pdf
sed -e "s/THISISTHEWATERMARK/ /g" <plaintext.pdf >nowatermark.pdf && pdftk nowatermark.pdf output repaired.pdf && mv repaired.pdf nowatermark.pdf
Resulting in the final nowatermark.pdf without encryption or watermark
yum install wget
cd /opt
wget --no-cookies --no-check-certificate --header "Cookie: gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2F; oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" "http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u67-b01/jdk-7u67-linux-x64.tar.gz"
tar xzf jdk-7u67-linux-x64.tar.gz
cd jdk1.7.0_67/
alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /opt/jdk1.7.0_67/bin/java 2
alternatives --config java
alternatives --install /usr/bin/jar jar /opt/jdk1.7.0_67/bin/jar 2
alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /opt/jdk1.7.0_67/bin/javac 2
alternatives --set jar /opt/jdk1.7.0_67/bin/jar
alternatives --set javac /opt/jdk1.7.0_67/bin/javac
rpm --import http://packages.elasticsearch.org/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/elasticsearch.repo
[elasticsearch-1.3] name=Elasticsearch repository for 1.3.x packages baseurl=http://packages.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/1.3/centos gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://packages.elasticsearch.org/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch enabled=1
yum install elastic search
/sbin/chkconfig --add elastic search
service elastic search start
cd /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/plugin -install polyfractal/elasticsearch-inquisitor
I encountered and worked around a couple of issues when installing MediaWiki 1.20.2 with Oracle 11g Express Edition 11.2.0.2.0 as the database back-end. The solutions below can be also applied to MediaWiki 1.20.0 and 1.20.1.
I did the installation on top of Zend Server Community Edition, saving me the trouble of tinkering too much with apache, php and oracle drivers.
First out, the web installer did not accept the new Easy Connect string format, even though the help text encouraged such use. The Zend Server environment doesn’t play well with TNS based connect strings these days, so I worked around this by commenting out the validation code on line 90 and 91 includes/installer/OracleInstaller.php:
[roy@lonora02 installer]# diff OracleInstaller.php.orig OracleInstaller.php
90,91c90,91
< } elseif ( !preg_match( '/^[a-zA-Z0-9_\.]+$/', $newValues['wgDBserver'] ) ) {
< $status->fatal( 'config-invalid-db-server-oracle', $newValues['wgDBserver'] );
---
> // } elseif ( !preg_match( '/^[a-zA-Z0-9_\.]+$/', $newValues['wgDBserver'] ) ) {
> // $status->fatal( 'config-invalid-db-server-oracle', $newValues['wgDBserver'] );
The installer now accepted localhost/XE:POOLED quite nicely for my Oracle 11g XE database with Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP) enabled.
After a couple of attempts, I found that the installer failed to create a database user, so I created a user manually, I suppose this is a good practice in any event, based on maintenance/oracle/user.sql
[oracle@lonora02 ~]$ sqlplus "/as sysdba" create user wikiuser identified by SECRET default tablespace users temporary tablespace temp quota unlimited on users; grant connect,resource to wikiuser; grant alter session to wikiuser; grant ctxapp to wikiuser; grant execute on ctx_ddl to wikiuser; grant create view, create synonym, create table, create sequence, create trigger to wikiuser;
After installation successfuly completed, I found a bug that was introduced in MediaWiki 1.20.0, where an array would incorrectly translate to a variable thus breaking a lot of SQL queries and making the wiki all but unusable. Luckily, I was able to borrow an existing workaround from the Postgres database script and modified includes/db/DatabaseOracle.php to implode the array to a comma separated list before passing it on to the variable. I found that this problem occurred two places, around line 1165 and 1168.
[roy@lonora02 db]# diff DatabaseOracle.php DatabaseOracle.php.orig
1165,1168c1165
< $ob = is_array( $options['GROUP BY'] )
< ? implode( ',', $options['GROUP BY'] )
< : $options['GROUP BY'];
< $preLimitTail .= " GROUP BY {$ob}";
---
> $preLimitTail .= " GROUP BY {$options['GROUP BY']}";
1171,1174c1168
< $ob = is_array( $options['ORDER BY'] )
< ? implode( ',', $options['ORDER BY'] )
< : $options['ORDER BY'];
< $preLimitTail .= " ORDER BY {$ob}";
---
> $preLimitTail .= " ORDER BY {$options['ORDER BY']}";
I really think it’s great that the MediaWiki team has taken the time to support Oracle database, not too many open source products like this do. The bugs I found have been reported and hopefully these issues will be all fixed by the next stable release.
Here’s a very short list of open source server software that I have found to run smoothly with an Oracle database back-end. All will work with the free Express Edition.
While a bit of an overkill for a personal or small organization blog, Drupal is just about the only tool I have found that works well with an Oracle back-end. Combined with the right theme and an image gallery, it should also be able to run a photoblog. I really wish someone would adapt tools like Pixelpost and WordPress which both make it very easy to get a good looking site running. There was a project named orablog that looked promising, but appears to have been abandoned years ago.
I was genuinely surprised by how easy it was to get up and running with phpBB on Oracle 11g XE.
Whether you are small brochure style website or an elaborate e-commerce site, Drupal should be able to accommodate most or all of your requirements. Although a bit of an overkill, it can even be used for something like a personal blog or photoblog.
Mediawiki which runs Wikipedia supports Oracle database. See my blog post on Installing MediaWiki 1.20.2 with Oracle 11g Express Edition to work around a couple of issues I had with the current release.
I always meant to let my php scripts on my Ubuntu server access Oracle databases, thus quite possibly making it into a Linux, Apache, Oracle and PHP server. I do wonder how you would smoothly pronounce the resulting acronym.
Anyway, I often have the feeling that open source systems and commercial databases are intentionally made to not play well together. Despite myself, I recently found a nice article on how to install Oracle 11g instant client and building php with support for OCI.
The relatively simple instructions are for Ubuntu 10.04 but seems to work quite nicely on my Ubuntu 12.04 server. With any luck I’ll be pulling all sorts of interesting data from Oracle 11g using PHP before the end of the day.
PHPOracle – Community Ubuntu Documentation.
Ps: Make sure you get the 64-bit version of the Oracle instant client if installing on a 64-bit system 🙂
