Dowster

FWIW: I upgraded the kernel to 4.20.. from elrepo - might not have been necessary as error persisted. USed the example sysctl.conf from here: https://community.oracle.com/thread/4154293 and reinstalled oracle-xe from the...

In line 18 of /scripts/ords.sh there is: #move the parameters file from ords to tmp/ords/ (where ords files are) mv -f ${OOS_SOURCE_DIR}/ords/ords_params.properties ${ORDS_PARAMS} However, if you unzip ords-18.3.0.270.1456.zip, the ords_param.properties...

Just a final comment. It is quite possible that if I started with the last supported ords version, this may have worked fine. However the recovery or uninstall of failed...