<div dir="ltr">Hi Bob,<div>Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately none of those things seems to have made a difference.</div><div><br></div><div>I've now installed QGIS on a second machine, one that already has a working Oracle administrator install that various other applications are successfully using (i.e. FME). But QGIS on that machine has the exact same problem with the exact same failure mechanisms/errors.<br>
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So the issue seems to be QGIS specific, but I don't know enough to be able to report it as a useful bug report.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_extra">Jonathan<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 September 2013 18:14, Bob and Deb <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobdebm@gmail.com" target="_blank">bobdebm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Hello Jonathan,<div><br></div><div>How about setting the environment variable ORACLE_HOME to c:\admin\apps\oracle32\product\11.2.0\client_1 and TNS_ADMIN to the location of the directory that contains tnsnames.ora? That is what I did and it works fine. In the past I also had to rename the oci.dll (or you can remove it) from c:\osgeo4w\bin because it conflicted with the oci.dll in %ORACLE_HOME%. Btw, we are connecting to Oracle 11.2.0 using OS authentication. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Bob</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Jonathan Moules <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonathanmoules@warwickshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">jonathanmoules@warwickshire.gov.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hi Duarte,<div>Cunning, I'd not played with the Python console before.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The QGIS path is the same as the system one, though with extra stuff pre-pended - Oracle is in there just fine:</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">'c:\Admin\Apps\Progs\QGISDU~1\apps\grass\grass-6.4.3\bin;c:\Admin\Apps\Progs\QGISDU~1\apps\msys\bin;c:\Admin\Apps\Progs\QGISDU~1\bin;<b>c:\admin\apps\oracle32\product\11.2.0\client_1\bin</b>;C:\windows\system32;C:\windows;C:\windows\System32\Wbem;C:\windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Application Virtualization Client;C:\Program Files (x86)\ActivIdentity\SecureLogin\;C:\Program Files\Intel\WiFi\bin\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intel\WirelessCommon\;c:\Admin\Apps\Progs\QGISDU~1\apps\msys\bin;c:\Admin\Apps\Progs\QGISDU~1\apps\Python27\Scripts;c:\Admin\Apps\Progs\QGISDU~1\apps\qgis\bin;c:\Admin\Apps\Progs\QGISDU~1\apps\grass\grass-6.4.3\lib'</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Trying TNS ping from within QGIS worked just fine too:</div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Attempting to contact (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (COMMUNITY = wcctcp.world) (PROTOCOL = TCP) (Host = co-gistest-li2) (Port = 1521)) (CONNECT_DATA = (SID = gistest) (GLOBAL_NAME = co_gistest.world)))<br>OK (0 msec)</blockquote>
</div><div><br></div><div>----</div><div><br></div><div>If I try and "cheat" and change my host from "co_gistest" to the actual machine name: "co-gistest-li2" - I get back an ORA-12514 instead where it says it doesn't know of the given host. But if I enter random gibberish it goes back to a ORA-12154.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Very confusing (but it is Oracle).</div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 September 2013 17:28, Duarte Carreira <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DCarreira@edia.pt" target="_blank">DCarreira@edia.pt</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Can you compare your path to what qgis is using?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">In python console type:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">import os<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">os.environ["PATH"]<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">It seems to me qgis is not finding your tns settings… your’re setting these up in tnsnames.ora?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">You can try tnsping from qgis and see what happens… try print os.popen(“tnsping…”).read() in your python console…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Duarte<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">De:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Jonathan Moules [mailto:<a href="mailto:jonathanmoules@warwickshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">jonathanmoules@warwickshire.gov.uk</a>]
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<b>Enviada:</b> terça-feira, 24 de Setembro de 2013 17:16<br>
<b>Para:</b> Duarte Carreira<br>
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<b>Assunto:</b> Re: [Qgis-user] Oracle - QGIS connection<u></u><u></u></div></div><p></p><div><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Duarte,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yep it works fine:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Logs me straight in, and a trial select confirms I'm in.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It's just QGIS that is having issues.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My PATH (this is windows) is:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">c:\admin\apps\oracle32\product\11.2.0\client_1\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Application Virtualization Client;C:\Program
Files (x86)\ActivIdentity\SecureLogin\<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Am very perplexed!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 24 September 2013 17:05, Duarte Carreira <<a href="mailto:DCarreira@edia.pt" target="_blank">DCarreira@edia.pt</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">It could be environmental variables messed up when launching qgis… does sqlplus work?</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Duarte</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">De:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Jonathan Moules [mailto:<a href="mailto:jonathanmoules@warwickshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">jonathanmoules@warwickshire.gov.uk</a>]
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<b>Enviada:</b> terça-feira, 24 de Setembro de 2013 16:00<br>
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<b>Assunto:</b> Re: [Qgis-user] Oracle - QGIS connection</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi List,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I've done a lot more dabbling and it simply refuses to work. I've now got to the point where I've installed the Administrator install of the Oracle client. Both QGIS and the client
are 32bit. But no matter what I keep getting the Ora-12154 error.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If I try tnsping, it can resolve the name just fine, so I'm not clear why it is failing with QGIS.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I don't remember what I did previously to get it working but I'm sure it wasn't anything like this much trouble.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 23 September 2013 12:56, Jonathan Moules <<a href="mailto:jonathanmoules@warwickshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">jonathanmoules@warwickshire.gov.uk</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi List,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is happening in 2.0.1 too. As other things can connect to the database from this machine I have to guess that it is a QGIS thing. I know it worked previously but doesn't seem
to any more.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does it work for other folks? What are you entering into the parameters?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 28 August 2013 14:33, Jonathan Moules <<a href="mailto:jonathanmoules@warwickshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">jonathanmoules@warwickshire.gov.uk</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm using QGIS weekly build d61cb25 on windows 7.<u></u><u></u></p>
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