Re: Oracle8i & runInstaller

Are you guys running GNOME/Elightenment? OUI has definite, known problem with that windowing setup. Use KDE and make sure there is absolutely no other java (jdk, jre, etc) in your environement.

Hope this helps.

Later,
Gene....

Matt wrote in message <37d00a51.9037278_at_news.columbia.edu>...
>I have the same problem, with RedHat linux. The installer runs, a
>window pops up for about .001 before disappearing, and then the
>program hangs.
>
>Is there anyone out there who can help?
>
>On Thu, 02 Sep 1999 19:51:11 -0400, George Karabotsos
><karabot_at_cam.org> wrote:
>
>>Hello People,
>>
>>I am trying to install Oracle8i, but I got problems running the
>>runInstaller.
>>
>>This is what I get :
>>
>>/cdrom$ ./runInstaller
>>Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /usr/local/jre/bin/jre. Please
>>wait...
>>/cdrom$
>>
>>It doesn't seem to be doing anything. So I went in /cdrom/install/linux
>>and I invoked both the runInstaller and runIns.sh under that directory
>>and I got the following:
>>
>>/cdrom/install/linux$ ./runInstaller
>>Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /usr/local/jre/bin/jre. Please
>>wait...
>>Segmentation fault
>>/cdrom/install/linux$
>>
>>/cdrom/install/linux$ ./runIns.sh
>>
>>The last one seems invokes correctly the oracle installer but once I am
>>at the Inventory Location dialog I cannot seem to be able to get passed
>>it, even when I go manually and create the directory tree.
>>
>>I am running Slackware 2.2.6, glibc2.1.1 and jre117; I also tried a
>>number of different window managers.
>>
>>Does anybody have any clue of what's happening?
>>
>>Thank you,
>>
>>George.
>
Received on Sat Sep 04 1999 - 12:09:12 CDT