[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk charset installation error

[Michael Mraka]

Allysson .\oraes wrote:
% Thanks Dobies,
% 
% the SBDC I've tried to use is a server that has Oracle already installed.
% The DBA sad me that there is a risk to another functional datases trying
% hange the character set to of a running server. I've figured out that a
% turnaround changing perl charset, but it is not right to work.

Hi Allysson,

ask your DBA to create a separate UTF8 database on the your Oracle database
server. And then create spacewalk schema in the new database.

Another option is to use Oracle XE installed on spacewalk server.
Or even use PostgreSQL backend if you are willing to help with its
development.

% On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Doug Dobies <ddobies at genscape.com> wrote:
% 
% > I had the same problem. Check that you've installed the "Universal" version
% > of the oracle database. there are two versions available, a "Western
% > European" version, and the "Universal" version.. If you install the Western
% > European version, you will get that same error.
% >
% > -Doug Dobies
% > ________________________________________
% > From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com]
% > On Behalf Of Allysson .\\oraes [moraesab at gmail.com]
% > Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 4:01 PM
% > To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
% > Subject: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk charset installation error
% >
% > Hi fridens,
% >
% > I'm having the problem below with spacewalk instalation related to charset:
% > Database is using an invalid (non-UTF8) character set: (NLS_CHARACTERSET =
% > WE8ISO8859P1)
% >
% > My databse is oracle is enterprise edition version 10.2.0.5
% > Does anybody has some ideia? I've search on official page and google and
% > nothing exact about this. Is there is a way to change charset?

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat