[unixODBC-support] why does it not connect to Oracle Express?

[Nick Gorham]

Ken Resander wrote:

>I have DB2, MySQL, Mimer SQL and SQL Anywhere connect successfully via unixODBC on Ubuntu 8.10, but Oracle Express 10g is giving me a hard time.
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Try using strace to see what files it opens to see if there are any libs 
the oracle driver needs that are failing to load.

>It is hard for me to understand the unixodbc driver code. Is there any error information coming from the Oracle driver that may hint at a solution? Do you know if anyone has managed to connect to Oracle Express on Linux?
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No, the driver manager failed to load and get a environment from the 
drievr, so there is no way of querying the drive for its errors.

>I really don't want to give up on this, but...
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>Ken
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>P.S. when googling I found some posts containing unixODBC tracing code.
>How do I turn tracing ON?
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in odbcinst.ini add a section

[ODBC]
Trace = Yes
TraceFile = /tmp/sql.log

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-- 
Nick