Tuesday 28 July 2015

No bug in oracle-rdbms-server-12cR1-preinstall !

This refers to my last post bug or feature in oracle -rdbms-server-12cR1-preinstall
There is no problem in oracle-rdbms-server-12cR1-preinstall, but rather a little confusion in the docker image breed85/oracle-12:preinstall.

Monday 13 July 2015

bug or feature in oracle-rdbms-server-12cR1-preinstall?

The latest version of oracle-rdbms-server-12cR1-preinstall introduces an interesting behaviour: it blocks su - oracle with the vacuous message su: could not open session. But we really need to be able to do that, when we want to install Oracle12c.
There are many questions and answers in the net trying to get rid of that extremely annoying issue. Here is the solution.

Thursday 9 July 2015

"Docker is managed via upstart, try using service docker restart" - baffling advice ?


Presumably every docker user has already followed this advice and experienced a baffling message "unkown job docker". There are quite a lot of questions and some bug reports in the net, but seemingly no satisfying answers. The question seems to me: "What is upstart?" Here is my own workaround.