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I have installed (and uninstalled) 10g XE multiple times on a Windows XP workstation with no success. I cannot pull up the homepage, but I know that is because the listener is not listening on any HTTP port. That, I believe, is only the tip of the iceberg...
When I ran through the install, there was never an indication of any errors. Yet upon search through the logs I found a multitude of problems on the post-install scripts. Most of the script logs show that the SQL statements that Oracle attempted to run during install failed because the scripts could never establish a connection to the database ("SP2-0640: Not connected" errors throughout the script logs). I am not sure if these scripts should be run manually, or in what order they should be run. I know at least the postDBcreation, which sets up the HTTP port, needs to be run (at least in part).
Although no HTTP port is configured, the listener is running and listening on Port 1521. As such, I can tnsping the database. The database starts (from the Start menu icon) without indication of error, and I can connect as sysdba through SQL*Plus. However, when I connect I get an alert: "Connected to an idle instance". Any SQL statements I attempt to run from there return the following error "ORA-01034: ORACLE not available". On other releases I would be able to go to server manager and try to incrementally start the db, but I don't know that there is an XE equivalent.
Further, looking at the css.log shows the following error sequence (I am not sure if this is critical or not):
[ OCRUTL][3864]u_set_gbl_comp_error: Parameter was NULL
[ OCRUTL][3864]u_set_gbl_comp_error: Parameter was NULL
2006-07-14 10:47:33.978: [ OCRRAW][3864]proprinit: Could not open raw device
2006-07-14 10:47:33.978: [ default][3864]a_init:7!: Backend init unsuccessful : [33]
[ OCRUTL][3864]u_set_ocr_error: Parameter was NULL
2006-07-14 10:47:33.978: [ CSSCLNT][3864]clsssinit: error(33 ) in OCR initialization
[ OCRUTL][3864]u_set_comp_error: Parameter was NULL
[ OCRUTL][3864]u_set_ocr_error: Parameter was NULL
2006-07-14 10:57:48.268: [ OCROSD][3864]utgdv:1:could not open registry key SOFTWARE\Oracle\ocr os error The system could not find the environment option that was entered.
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At this point, I am not sure what action to take to get this database running. Any help/insight would be greatly appreciated.