RunInstaller won't start: 10g1, RHEL3, x86-64

Question

Hi, this is an attempt to install Ora 10g Release 1 on an out-of-the-box Red Hat Enterprise 3 system on an Opteron 64-bit processor. 10gR2 is not available for the x86-64 platform yet.
I have been through the prerequisites, set the system parameters, oracle account and environment etc.
And I get
[oracle@db Disk1]$ ./runInstaller
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
Checking installer requirements...
Checking operating system version: must be redhat-3, SuSE-9, SuSE-8 or UnitedLinux-1.0
Passed
All installer requirements met.
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2005-08-02_05-23-32PM.
Please wait ...Error in CreateOUIProcess(): 13: Permission denied
At this stage there is nothing in the install log file except the above text.
From reading some other threads I suspected a Java problem; and I recall earllier Oracle installs on earlier Red Hats needed to have a 3rd party JDK installed.
There's nothing I can find in the Oracle 10g docs about Java prerequisites. I was under the impression that the Oracle installation media included their own Java. Can anybody tell me what I am missing?
Thanks,
victor
o installed jdk 117_v1a-2 from rpmfind.net, and put /usr/local/jdk117_v1a/bin/ at the front of $PATH but that's not correct:
[oracle@db Disk1]$ java -version
java: relocation error: /usr/local/jdk117_v1a/lib/i686/green_threads/libjava.so: undefined symbol: dlsymbol_value

Answer 1

Funny you should say that, I thought that too - but the output is a puzzle.
It's quite long, but the start is like this
execve("./runInstaller", ["./runInstaller"], [* 26 vars */]) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="db.qonnectis.com", ...}) = 0
brk(0) = 0x5b1000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2a9566c000
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/x86_64/libtermcap.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/lib/tls/x86_64", 0x7fbfff8250) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/libtermcap.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/lib/tls", 0x7fbfff8250) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/x86_64/libtermcap.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/lib/x86_64", 0x7fbfff8250) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libtermcap.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=8192, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/tls/x86_64/libtermcap.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/X11R6/lib/tls/x86_64", 0x7fbfff8250) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/tls/libtermcap.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/X11R6/lib/tls", 0x7fbfff8250) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/x86_64/libtermcap.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/X11R6/lib/x86_64", 0x7fbfff8250) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libtermcap.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/X11R6/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=50556, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 50556, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x2a9566d000
close(3) = 0
open("/lib64/libtermcap.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
and at the end
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT CHLD], [], 8) = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x2a95ac6130) = 5299
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x42ed30, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x2a958b1720}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
wait4(-1, Error in CreateOUIProcess(): 13
: Permission denied
[{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 5299
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
wait4(-1, 0x7fbfff8694, WNOHANG, NULL) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes)
rt_sigreturn(0xffffffffffffffff) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented)
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
read(255, "", 1213) = 0
exit_group(0) = ?
All those ENOENTs make me wonder if I've got the right download.
But maybe they are just the runInstaller checking to see what environment it is runing in..?
[oracle@db Disk1]$ uname -s
Linux
[oracle@db Disk1]$ uname -r
2.4.21-32.0.1.EL
[oracle@db Disk1]$ uname -v
#1 Tue May 17 17:53:25 EDT 2005
[oracle@db Disk1]$ uname -m
x86_64
[oracle@db Disk1]$ uname -p
x86_64
[oracle@db Disk1]$ uname -i
x86_64
D/load was ship.db_Disk1.lnxx86-64.cpio.gz
Either that or there looks to be something /very/ strange in this system build. It is literally a brand new box that we have just started using.