Last week I posted the note below about installation problems we were
experiencing. The Oracle installer just failed with no message. We have
solved to problem and thought I would share the solution with the list.
The installer was looking at a file
'/usr/var/opt/oracle/orainst.loc', deciding that it didn't need to upgrade
an existing database, and halting/failing. That is our interpretation
anyway. Deleting this file caused the installer to run successfully. On the
Compaq Tru64 we can't recall Oracle ever using a file in that path. Normally
Oracle uses /etc for that sort of thing. Lots of other things were tried in
this endeavor so I can't discount the fact that some of those changes might
have helped resolve the problem. We found this especially puzzling because
we installed 8.1.7 on another machine cleanly and this file was present, but
apparently didn't upset the installer.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: DENNIS WILLIAMS
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:12 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Oracle 8.1.7 install failure on Compaq Tru64
>
> We are trying to install Oracle 8.1.7 on Compaq Tru64 with 0.S. 4.0F with
> the latest patch kit, and the EV5.6 chip set. The install just bombs off
> at 56% complete. No error messages, log messages, or trace files (hasn't
> gotten far enough to create ORACLE_HOME). The install works fine on
> another machine with the EV6 chip set. Compaq and Oracle say that EV5.6
> should be acceptable, and haven't provided much in the way of resolution.
> If you are curious which chip set you have, enter the command
> "/usr/sbin/psrinfo -v". Any information on this would be helpful. Thank
> you.
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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