[Spacewalk-list] Error connecting to Database

[Michael Mraka]

Vishal Patil wrote:
% Hi ,
% 
% I recreated the DB and it worked , but when I try to install spacewalk i get
% the following error
% 
% [root at Spacewalk-test ~]# spacewalk-setup --disconnected
% * Setting up Oracle environment.
% * Setting up database.
% ** Database: Setting up database connection.
% DB User? spacewalk
% DB Password?
% DB SID? xe
% DB hostname? localhost
% DB port [1521]?
% DB protocol [TCP]?
% *** Database: Testing database connection.
% Database is using an invalid (non-UTF8) character set: (NLS_CHARACTERSET =
% US7ASCII)*
% 
% What does this error means , Can it be changed from some file or I need to
% make changes in Database
% 
% Please suggest on how to proceed with fixing this error

https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/OracleXeSetup

Download the "Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Universal)" 

oracle-xe-univ-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm 

which is the Multi-byte Unicode/UTF-8 database, not the "Western
European" Single-byte LATIN1 database.


Regards,

--
Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat