Re: [cx-oracle-users] "Unable to acquire Oracle environment handle" with cx_Oracle 4.1.2 oracle 10g

[Falko S. <Fal...@gm...>]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:08:54 +0100 (CET)
Oliver-Mark Cordes <oc...@as...> wrote:

> Looking into the source code I found that "OCIEnvCreate" creates the error 
> message. ...
...
> Any suggestions?

I had the same problem (OCIEnvCreate failed) with a small OCI
application. The reason was that oraInstaller set strange file and
directory permissions in $ORACLE_HOME, e.g.:

# ls -ld mesg
drwxr-x---    2 oracle10 users         144 Sep 14 18:47 mesg/

After fixing this ("chmod o+rx" for all directories, "chmod o+r" for all
files in the $ORACLE_HOME subtree) all OCI applications are working as
expected.

HTH, Falko