Ok, I'm still having problems..
It turned out that my network admin had installed Oracle 10.2.0.1.0 but told me he'd installed the latest 11g.
I amended my dspace source to suit - edited back the pom.xml file to look for 10g drivers by default, downloaded the oracle 10g ojdbc14.jar. During this I had to download JDK1.5 to replace my 1.6 as ojdbc14 doesn't work with 1.6.
All was going well - the maven installation went fine, though I had to manually install:install-file ojdbc14.jar.
Then onto the ant fresh_install.. and AGAIN I get this error.
Can anybody help? At this stage I am having so much trouble with Dspace that I am considering just abandoning the project.
dspace@na-vm-1fv:/home/rburke/dspace-1.5.0-release/dspace/target/dspace-1.5.0-build
.dir$ ant fresh_install
Buildfile: build.xml
init_installation:
init_configs:
[copy] Copying 42 files to /usr/local/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/webapps/dspace/config
setup_database:
[java] 2008-07-23 16:42:04,719 INFO org.dspace.core.ConfigurationManager @ Loading system provided config property (-Ddspace.configuration): config/dspace.cfg
[java] 2008-07-23 16:42:04,728 INFO org.dspace.core.ConfigurationManager @ Using default log4j provided log configuration,if uninitended, check your dspace.cfg for (log.init.config)
[java] 2008-07-23 16:42:04,729 INFO org.dspace.storage.rdbms.InitializeDatabase @ Initializing Database
[java] 2008-07-23 16:42:04,907 FATAL org.dspace.storage.rdbms.InitializeDatabase @ Caught exception:
[java] java.sql.SQLException: Io exception: Bad packet type
[java] at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:112)
[java] at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:146)
[java] at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:255)
[java] at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection.logon(T4CConnection.java:387)
[java] at oracle.jdbc.driver.PhysicalConnection.<init>(PhysicalConnection.java:420)
[java] at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection.<init>(T4CConnection.java:165)
[java] at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CDriverExtension.getConnection(T4CDriverExtension.java:35)
[java] at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.connect(OracleDriver.java:801)
[java] at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:525)
[java] at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:171)
[java] at org.apache.commons.dbcp.DriverManagerConnectionFactory.createConnection(DriverManagerConnectionFactory.java:48)
[java] at org.apache.commons.dbcp.PoolableConnectionFactory.makeObject(PoolableConnectionFactory.java:290)
[java] at org.apache.commons.pool.impl.GenericObjectPool.borrowObject(GenericObjectPool.java:840)
[java] at org.apache.commons.dbcp.PoolingDriver.connect(PoolingDriver.java:175)
[java] at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:525)
[java] at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:193)
[java] at org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager.getConnection(DatabaseManager.java:514)
[java] at org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager.loadSql(DatabaseManager.java:869)
[java] at org.dspace.storage.rdbms.InitializeDatabase.main(InitializeDatabase.java:100)
BUILD FAILED
/home/rburke/dspace-1.5.0-release/dspace/target/dspace-1.5.0-build.dir/build.xml:380: Java returned: 1
Total time: 1 second