if Patch 3 runs, can you just jump to patch 5 after 5 ? and does that work fine ?
just a thought.. On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Fatima <fsha...@gmail.com> wrote: > ** Hi everyone, > We are upgrading from ARS 6.3 on: > - Solaris 10 > - Oracle 9i > - Apache Tomcat 5.5.26 > to ARS 7.5 on: > - Solaris 10 > - Oracle 10g > - Apache Tomcat 5.5.29 > > The Oracle upgrade from 9i to 10g went fine. We upgraded ARS 6.3 to ARS 7.1 > fine. > With the ARS 7.5 patch 5 installer, we get an error indicating that our > underlying database is not Unicode but ARS is configured as Unicode. > Although our database is Unicode, our NLS Parameters are as follows: > > SQL> SELECT * FROM V$NLS_PARAMETERS; > > PARAMETER VALUE > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN > NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA > NLS_CURRENCY $ > NLS_ISO_CURRENCY AMERICA > NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS ., > NLS_CALENDAR GREGORIAN > NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD-MON-RR > NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE AMERICAN > NLS_CHARACTERSET > AR8ISO8859P6 > NLS_SORT BINARY > NLS_TIME_FORMAT > HH.MI.SSXFF AM > NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT DD-MON-RR > HH.MI.SSXFF AM > NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT > HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR > NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD-MON-RR > HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR > NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY $ > NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET AL16UTF16 > NLS_COMP BINARY > NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS BYTE > NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP FALSE > > Does anyone know exactly which parameters does the installer check to know > if the database is Unicode or not, so we can ensure they are set correctly. > The OS LANG and NLS_LANG parameters are not set, do they need to be set to > any specific value? > > The weird thing is that the ARS 7.5 patch 3 installer runs smoothly without > this error, but we prefer to go to patch 5. > > Thanks, > Fatima Amin > _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ -- Patrick Zandi _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
