RunInstaller fails Installing Oracle 9i R2 on SuSE 8

Question

For testingpurposes I try to install Oracle 9i R2 on a intel-P4 box running SuSE 8.0
with 768MB physical Mem, 1G Swap,
Kernel 2.4.18-64GB-SMP, glibc-2.2.5-38, java version "1.3.1_02"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.1_02-b02)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.1_02-b02, mixed mode),
I also installed the orarun.rpm which sets the appropriate environment.
After starting the runInstaller script as oracle-user from a shell, the Java Installer starts with some font-errors:
Font specified in font.properties not found [--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
But the installer starts up and seams to work properly until it beginns loading the list of installable Products from products.jar. At about 40% the loading stops and I get the message:
Exception in thread "main"
on my console. The only way to continue at this point is to exit the installer.
I tried different settings for $LANG including unset $LANG and different settings for -mx in oraparam.ini with no effect.
Did anyone have the same Problem or does anyone know the reason of this error?
THX
Juergen

Answer 1

Hi,
I got the solution ;-)
My problems seem to bee caused by a obvisuously buggy/incompatible version of JRE in oracle's installationfileset.
I resolved the Problem by editing the JRE_LOCATION-variable in Disk1/install/linux/oraparam.ini (see below) to point to the root of my own local installation of Java 2 (java version "1.3.1_02" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.1_02-b02)).
start of the original file:
[Oracle]
DISTRIBUTION=TRUE
SOURCE=../../stage/products.jar
LICENSE_LOCATION=
JRE_LOCATION=../../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.3.1.0.0/1/DataFiles/Expanded/jre/linux
OUI_LOCATION=../../stage/Components/oracle.swd.oui/2.2.0.12.0/1/DataFiles/Expanded
JRE_MEMORY_OPTIONS=" -mx200m"
modified version:
[Oracle]
DISTRIBUTION=TRUE
SOURCE=../../stage/products.jar
LICENSE_LOCATION=
JRE_LOCATION=/usr/lib/SunJava2-1.3.1/jre
OUI_LOCATION=../../stage/Components/oracle.swd.oui/2.2.0.12.0/1/DataFiles/Expanded
JRE_MEMORY_OPTIONS=" -Xmx300m"
After this change everything worked (besides some minor problems with the installed demo-database).
HTH
Juergen