8i installation on RH6.0 - just hangs

Question

Trying to run ./runInstaller from /mnt/cdrom originally gave me
the following:
[oracle@dev cdrom]$ ./runInstaller
Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /usr/local/jre/bin/jre.
Please wait...
Error in CreateOUIProcess(): -1
: No such file or directory
I made a link:
[root@dev local]# ln -s /dvl/jre116_v5/bin /usr/local/jre/bin
Now, when I try to run installer again, the screen flashes a
window for a very brief moment, can't even read what's on it,
then it just hangs forever:
[oracle@dev cdrom]$ ./runInstaller
Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /usr/local/jre/bin/jre.
Please wait...
(and so I wait... And wait... and wait)
According to JRE1.1.6v5 installation notes, there is no need to
set CLASSPATH - just add bin subdirectory of JRE to PATH.
DISPLAY is set properly, PATH includes /dvl/jre116_v5/bin
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Oleg
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Answer 1

Oleg (guest) wrote:
: Well, it failed again. I think I saw something about
: "segmentation fault" in the terminal window before it closed.
: Any ideas? I did not modify and rebuild the kernel. Could that
be
: it?
: Thanks.
: Oleg
: Oleg (guest) wrote:
: : Kurt Hannigan (guest) wrote:
: : : Good going!!
: : : I am right on your heels.
: : : JRE is hanging for my install also.
: : : I will now try your fix and post upda
: : Installer went through all the dialogs fine, started
: : installation, and at appr. 79% of completion crashed. Just
: : disappeared. Trying to find anything in the installation log
: : these are the last couple of lines from it:
: : , [oratypes.h ->%ORACLE_HOME%/rdbms/demo/oratypes.h 9438
plats=0=>[453,173,46,467,295,87,610,198,918,913,162,2,30,111,90,1
: : 68,888]
langs=0=>[en,fr,ar,bn,pt_BR,bg,fr_CA,ca,hr,cs,da,nl,ar_EG,en_GB,e
t,fi,de,el,iw,hu,is,id,it,ja,ko,es,lv,lt,ms,es_MX,no,pl,pt,ro,ru,
: : zh_CN,sk,sl,es_ES,sv,th,zh_TW,tr,uk,vi]]
: : DllGroup = false
: : Any ideas????
Yes, kernel has to be recompiled with recomended values.
I have attached a related reply from OTN team. It answers to some
common problems. I hope it can be useful.
John Palmer
Re: An update from the OTN team...
From: Oracle Technology Network Team
Email: [email protected]
Date: Fri Aug 06 21:23 CDT 1999
Having checked in with the development team please find below
their response to your comments/questions:
line 118 in my install log file at :
/usr/local/oracle/u01/app/oracle/oraInventory/logs/installActions
.log says :
platGroup = WINDOWS
And this is on Linux!!! Maybe the Oracle folks are forgetting
that Linux users are a little too sensitive to these kind of
mistakes. :)
This also supports my theory that the new installer is a gift
from Windows programmers. Who are not too familiar with the
idea of being able to send their video display to any computer
around the world and work from there. A feature every Linux
user takes for granted The Oracle Universal Installer is used to install Oracle products
on both Windows and Unix platforms. For every action performed by
the installer, there is a check to see if the platform on which
installation is going on is Windows or Unix. Based on the Query
result it performs a certain action and these are written to the
log file.
The log file should like:
platGroup = WINDOWS
Query returned : false
as Linux belongs to Unix platform group.
The installation types screen list 3 options: Typical, Minimal
and Custom. Somehow Minimal takes more disk space >
(642MB)compared to Typical (585 MB). Well that is what the
installation screen says. I have not tried to install using
the minimal install. The Oracle Software Packager which is used to create the shiphome
doesn't seem to report the correct size of the components and so
this inconsistency.
The installation cant figure out how much free space is
available on the / partition. Is it that hard? Its gives
warnings about how I may not have enough space. The free disk space calculation is done as follows:
((# free blocks) * (block size)) / 1024 in KB
The multiplication might have resulted in an overflow and
displaying the
wrong figures.
dbassist cant find the cdrom if you try to install the default
database from CDROM. It says cannot find CDROM even if you
have all your stuff under /mnt/cdrom dbassist script cannot be run from the shiphome on a CD. It can
only be run from the installed ORACLE_HOME.
The docs talk about software mount points and data mount points
/u01 /u02 /u03 and /u04 that I created, but I could not find
anywhere to specify them like I was able to, with the last
release.
Database Creation Assistant doesn't understand OFA. It wants
to put all of the database files /u01/app/oracle/oradata/<sid>
! Database Creation Assistant will sometimes prevent editing
the data file names to put them in OFA compliant directories. In DataBase Configuration Assistant, select the type of database
to create to be "custom" and create the database which allows to
give different paths for various database files and control
files.
"Oracle Protocol Support" section during the install shows no
options at all. What happened to good ole Net8? Only the TCP/IP adapter is supported which is default and
built-in, and so the screen is blank.
Some executables in the $ORACLE_HOME/bin directory do not have
execute permissions. "root.sh" script needs to be run when prompted by the installer
to set the appropriate permissions.
Zero length library file $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libnjni8.so.
Netasst doesn't work without it. Someone said they posted the
source code to the comp.databases.oracle.server newsgroup, but
I can't find it. and many libraries are zero length. This was noted internally also. We shall be providing a patch to
be released soon with the correct libraries.
Database Creation Assistant thinks dbmssql.sql is called
dbmssml.sql. The file $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/dbmssml.sql gets instantiated
from $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/install/sbs/dbmssml.sbs at install time
and it's not getting instantiated. Also, the instantiated SQL
script uses $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libqsmashr.so.
Get the shared library libqsmashr.so which will be provided in
the patch to be released soon and copy it to $ORACLE_HOME/lib.
Run the generated SQL script (dbmssml.sql) from the file
$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/install/sbs/dbmssml.sbs by replacing the
%ORACLE_HOME% with the actual path to ORACLE_HOME. Copy the
generated SQL script to $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin.
Building the Intelligent Agent with TCL 7.5 causes a cascade
of undefined references when running gmake -f ins_oemagent.mk
agent The makefile $ORACLE_HOME/network/lib/ins_oemagent.mk is
incorrect.
Get the makefile ins_oemagent.mk from the patch to be released
soon and copy it to $ORACLE_HOME/network/lib
OR
in the mean time modify $ORACLE_HOME/network/lib/ins_oemagent.mk
as follows:
- replace -R$(LIBHOME) with -Wl,-rpath,$(LIBHOME) on line 20
(make sure to type entire option as one word, do not leave any
blank spaces in-between)
- replace the make rules for dbsnmp target with (while adding
these lines, for the first line keyin <tab> as the first
character)
$(LDCCOM) $(DBSNMPMAI) $(OSMMAI_STUB) $(LLIBNMI) $(LLIBNMS)
$(LLIBNMD) \
$(LLIBVPPDC) -lnms0 $(LSNMPLIB) $(SQLLIBS) $(DXALIBS) \
$(DEF_OPT) $(SSDBAED) $(TTLIBS) $(LLIBTCL) $(SNMPAGENTLIB) \
-ldl -lm -lcrypt -lc
- replace the make rules for oemevent target with ((while
adding these
lines, for the first line keyin <tab> as the first
character)
$(LDCCOM) $(OEMEVENTMAI) $(LLIBNMI) $(LLIBNMS) $(LLIBNMD)
-lnms0 \
$(SQLLIBS) $(DXALIBS) $(DEF_OPT) $(SSDBAED) $(TTLIBS)
$(LLIBTCL) \
$(SNMPAGENTLIB) -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lc
Set ORACLE_HOME and link the executables,
gmake -f ins_oemagent.mk agent
We hope this helps to clarify your issues.
Oracle Technology Network
http://technet.oracle.com
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