Hello guys
One of the most awkward things that keeps on happening in my life is, I land on my posts/comments those were posted years back, which were definite solutions to few perplexing situations like “Error: Missing ormi[s]://<host>:<port>”
Year 2015, I posted a comment with the below thread
https://aboutsoa.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/error-missing-ormishostport/
explaining a possible solution to the error in attention…but I missed it.
Few days back I was setting up a VM with Oracle Applcations R12 to test SSD based storage device & landed on the same error! I didn’t have a clue…last four days I was going through each every other notes those I made, was scavenging through tones of blog posts and Oracle support documents, trying out suggestions to overcome the error below:
Executing service control script:
…../admin/scripts/adoacorectl.sh stop
Timeout specified in context file: 100 second(s)script returned:
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ERROR : Timed out( 100000 ): Interrupted ExceptionYou are running adoacorectl.sh version 120.13
We had our Oracle Application R12 implemented on RHEL 5 & later cloned the same instance on Oracle Linux 6 for TESTs. One of the major differences between RHEL 5 & 6 was the native support for IPV6 with Linux 6. Not just R12, many Oracle products WERE/ARE not yet completely compatible with IPV6 & the first thing geeks ask you to do is to disable IPV6 (Even today!)
I did, trust me I did it on the interface, I did it in the sysctl.conf & wherever possible & still had the same ormi error, whenever I tried to shutdown the application services. The temporary solution was to re-run the stop all script & finally the script completes with “0” error.
I was NOT happy & I wanted my instance to shutdown gracefully, over a single attempt. I “knew” that Oracle was very sensitive to Network stack, a screwed up hostfile, DNS, firewall…anything that is related to network could cause these kind of issues. So I decided to go through each one of them. So, first was the hosts file.
The default /etc/hosts file from Linux 6 has the entries like below
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
When Linux 5 have | Glad that I had a machine to cross check
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
Immediately I decided to give it a try, I chopped the unnecessary strings from the hosts file & started the application tier & tried to shutdown!
That was it, no more
“Error: Missing ormi[s]://<host>:<port>”
No hacking of the Context files or disabling the IPV6 protocol is required, which could complicate SSH tunnel etc (as per Linux guys, I am not a Linux guy yet ;) in those means)
So, now you have a working solution, you have your IPV4 & IPV6 both enabled & an instance shuts down as you expect. Well, party time guys!
regards,
rajesh