I recently ran into problems starting services after completing setup of a new 64bit development enviornment for Blackboard 8. The rpms installed the 32bit version of apache and it was missing one of the libraries. Gdbm to be more specific.

It was easy to see the problem by doing an ldd on httpd:

[root@lubba01dev bin]# ldd httpd
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)

This Thursday, Seth Sites and I are presenting at the Virginia Oracle Users Group in Richmond, Virginia. The topic covers our recent migration of a 4-node Oracle RAC from an EMC CX700 onto NFS on a NetApp. We are covering the different steps we took in migrating the ASM, OCR and voting disk in addition to topics like: mount options, benefits/consideration, warnings and suggestions.

We performed 2 big upgrades to our production Blackboard environment last week. We had been running 7.0 for almost 2 years, but it was time to upgrade to 7.3. The upgrade path was pretty straightforward except for the use of hot fixes in place of the base application pack.