[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk-setup throws weird character set error

Ben Preston bpreston at backcountry.com
Tue Jun 24 16:18:27 UTC 2008


Michael Mraka wrote:
> Ben Preston wrote:
> ...
> % > * Setting up database.
> % > ** Database: Setting up database connection.
> % > DB User? <user>
> % > DB Password?
> % > DB SID? <SID>
> % > DB hostname? <hostname>
> % > DB port [1521]? <port>
> % > DB protocol [TCP]? <protocol>
> % > ** Database: Testing database connection.
> % > Database is using an invalid (non-UTF8) character set: (NLS_CHARACTERSET = WE8MSWIN1252)
> %
> 
> % Has anyone run into this problem?  Should I start over (and what then?) or
> % is there a good way to convert the DB's charset?  I'm running the oracle-xe
> % package recommended in the wiki
> % (https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/OracleXeSetup).
> 
> Looks like you are running oracle-xe (Single-byte LATIN1 database) not
> oracle-xe-univ (Multi-byte Unicode database).
> I will highlight this in the wiki.
> 
> --
> Michael Mráka
> RHN Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
> 


Well, it *did* say it in the list of RPMs to download...  I just wasn't paying
enough attention.  *sigh*  Having the extra "hey dummy, install this one"
notification will undoubtedly help someone else in the future though.  Thanks
for the assistance.

Regards,

-- 

Ben







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