11g R2 -silent install: "Template General_Purpose.dbc does not exist"

Question

I'm working in an environment where no X-Windows/GUI is permitted; therefore, I'm attempting to perform a -silent install of 11g R2 on RHEL 5.3 and am finding the screen output to my terminal window less than helpful. Fortunately, a thorough review of the install actions log provides what appears to be my problem.
The screen output I receive is as follows (I've added some line breaks to make it more readable):
(oracle@blade2-1 database)$ cd /opt/oracleStagingArea/Oracle11gR2/11.2.0.1.0/Disk1/database
(oracle@blade2-1 database)$ ./runInstaller -silent -responseFile /home/oracle/ResponseFiles/11gR2/ORCL11GD_enterprise_11201.rsp
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
Checking Temp space: must be greater than 80 MB. Actual 91127 MB Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB. Actual 8000 MB Passed
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2009-09-14_01-25-28PM. Please wait ...
(oracle@blade2-1 database)$
You can find the log of this install session at:
/u01/app/oracle/oraInventory/logs/installActions2009-09-14_01-25-28PM.log
That's it - no indication as to whether the installation was successful or failed or whether the NETCA/DBCA/etc. were successful or not.
I found that a listener existed after the install:
(oracle@blade2-1 database)$ ps -ef | grep tns
oracle 22597 1 0 13:29 ? 00:00:00 /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/bin/tnslsnr LISTENER -inherit
My instance didn't appear to be up, though:
(oracle@blade2-1 database)$ ps -ef | grep ORCL11GD
oracle 22776 19142 0 13:39 pts/0 00:00:00 grep ORCL11GD
So, I checked the /u01/app/oracle/oraInventory/logs/installActions2009-09-14_01-25-28PM.log to see what it revealed. It shows me the following for the DBCA:
INFO: Started Plugin named: Oracle Database Configuration Assistant
INFO: Found associated job
INFO: Starting 'Oracle Database Configuration Assistant'
INFO: Starting 'Oracle Database Configuration Assistant'
INFO: Executing DBCA
INFO: Command /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/bin/dbca -silent -createDatabase -templateName General_Purpose.dbc -sid ORCL11GD -gdbName orcl11gd.blade2-1.mycompany.com -emConfiguration LOCAL -storageType FS -datafileDestination /u02/oradata -datafileJarLocation /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/assistants/dbca/templates -responseFile /home/oracle/ResponseFiles/11gR2/ORCL11GD_enterprise_11201.rsp -characterset WE8ISO8859P15 -obfuscatedPasswords false -sampleSchema false -oratabLocation /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/install/oratab -automaticMemoryManagement true -totalMemory 2048 -maskPasswords false -oui_internal
INFO: ... GenericInternalPlugIn.handleProcess() entered.
INFO: ... GenericInternalPlugIn: getting configAssistantParmas.
INFO: ... GenericInternalPlugIn: checking secretArguments.
INFO: ... GenericInternalPlugIn: starting read loop.
INFO: Read: SYS_PASSWORD_PROMPT
INFO: Processing: SYS_PASSWORD_PROMPT for argument tag -sysPassword
INFO: Read: SYSTEM_PASSWORD_PROMPT
INFO: Processing: SYSTEM_PASSWORD_PROMPT for argument tag -systemPassword
INFO: Read: DBSNMP_PASSWORD_PROMPT
INFO: Processing: DBSNMP_PASSWORD_PROMPT for argument tag -dbsnmpPassword
INFO: Read: SYSMAN_PASSWORD_PROMPT
INFO: Processing: SYSMAN_PASSWORD_PROMPT for argument tag -sysmanPassword
INFO: End of argument passing to stdin
INFO: Read: Template General_Purpose.dbc does not exist. Please specify an existing template for database creation.
INFO: Completed Plugin named: Oracle Database Configuration Assistant
INFO: Oracle Database Configuration Assistant failed.
INFO: Oracle Database Configuration Assistant failed.
I don't see a template named "General_Purpose.dbc" in the $ORACLE_HOME/dbca/templates directory:
(oracle@blade2-1 database)$ cd /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/assistants/dbca/templates
(oracle@blade2-1 database)$ ls -lrt
total 23216
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 11492 Feb 25 2009 New_Database.dbt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 1179648 Aug 14 03:01 example.dmp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 22536192 Aug 14 03:01 example01.dfb
Any suggestions would be welcomed!

Answer 1

Hans: None at all, unfortunately.
Srini: I obtained a copy of the note and read through it. It does look as though I should be able to run the DBCA in -silent mode to create a template, so no GUI needed. Thanks again!
On a side note: Did anybody else notice the "General_Purpose.dbc" template missing from the $ORACLE_HOME/dbca/templates directory after an 11g R2 software install on RHEL 5.3? I'm beginning to suspect that not all components were installed as expected during the software installation. the oraInstall<Date/Time>.err file is full of errors such as the following:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /opt/oracleStagingArea/Oracle11gR2/11.2.0.1.0/Disk1/database/stage/Components/oracle.rdbms.install.seeddb/11.2.0.1.0/1/DataFiles/filegroup2.jar (No such file or directory)
All of these errors are complaining about only the following 4 compoments:
- oracle.ctx
- oracle.sysman.console.db
- oracle.owb.rsf
- oracle.rdbms.install.seeddb
Upon investigation, I found that there is no oracle.ctx, oracle.sysman.console.db, oracle.owb.rsf, or oracle.rdbms.install.seeddb under /opt/oracleStagingArea/Oracle11gR2/11.2.0.1.0/Disk1/database/stage/Compoments. Instead, the grouping is located under /opt/oracleStagingArea/Oracle11gR2/11.2.0.1.0/Disk2/database/stage/Components.
It seems that I may have staged the media incorrectly in two separate directories. Should I have unzipped both files into the same directory instead of separating them out?