Agent deployment from EM 12.1.0.2 to Linux agent failing pre-req checks

Question

Trying to deploy the agent software from EM to a Linux host running Oracle Enterprise Linux version 5.8 I am failing one of the pre-requisite checks indicating that the root / is not owned by the root. From the install log
INFO: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
INFO: Checking AgentBaseDirCheck
This is a prerequisite condition to test whether the agent base directory is owned by the install user, all the parent directories are owned by either the install user or root user and the root directory (that is '/') is owned by root user.
INFO: The value of AGENT_BASE_DIR is:/opt/EM_Agent.
INFO: The value of ORACLE_HOME is:/opt/EM_Agent/ADATMP_2012-12-10_09-37-31-AM/prereq_stage/core/12.1.0.2.0
INFO: The command that is getting executed as part of this prereq is:/opt/EM_Agent/ADATMP_2012-12-10_09-37-31-AM/prereq_stage/core/12.1.0.2.0/perl/bin/perl /opt/EM_Agent/ADATMP_2012-12-10_09-37-31-AM/prereq_stage/core/12.1.0.2.0/sysman/install/CheckDirPermission.pl /opt/EM_Agent
INFO: Checking for proper ownership on the agent base directory.
INFO: Checks whether the agent base directory is owned by the agent user oracle and that its parent directory is owned by either the agent user or root.
INFO: ....
INFO: Login name is : oracle & file owner is : oracle
INFO: ....
INFO: ERROR : root dir is not owned by root user.
INFO: Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Failed <<<<
INFO: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Not sure how the / can not be owned by root.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
220G 63G 146G 30% /
/dev/sda1 99M 23M 72M 24% /boot
tmpfs 2.0G 620M 1.4G 32% /dev/shm
[root@tomintoul mapper]# ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 Dec 4 11:42 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 7180 Dec 10 06:59 ..
crw------- 1 root root 10, 62 Dec 4 11:42 control
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 0 Dec 4 11:42 VolGroup00-LogVol00
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 1 Dec 4 11:42 VolGroup00-LogVol01
Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi,
Please follow the document provided below which explains the issue.
EM 12c: Agent Installation Fails With Error 'root dir is not owned by root user' (Doc ID 1380296.1)
Regards,
Venkat