Re: orainst on linux fails ...

I installed Oracle 8.0.5 successful on Red Hat 5.2 few weeks ago and I am struggle to upgrade to Red Hat 6.0 due to gblibc 2.1 problem now. I remember that before starting the installation, there are important steps to carry out.

1) Make sure that oracle user belong to dba group;
2) Create the $ORACLE_HOME and all the environment variable;
3) make ORACLE_OWNER=oracle;
4) define $PATH;

If you still get error, it probably means that neither dba or oracle user have rights to install the libraries in the mount directory. Regards.

Salvo
salvo_at_www.rokeby.com

Steve Sullivan wrote in message <7stkca$e2a$1_at_net.indra.com>...
>Hi -
>I'm installing Oracle 8.0.5 Server on RedHat 6.0 Linux.
>When I run the installer orainst I select all the defaults,
>and all possible products to install.
>But I get the message:
>
> A permission denied error occurred while trying to make the
> directory '/oracle01/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/orainst'. (Operation
> not permitted.) Would you like to retry the operation, ignore the
> error, or allow the error to be processed by the Installer?
>
>Yet "ls -al" shows the directory already exists, and is
>certainly accessible by userid "oracle":
>
>$ pwd
>/oracle01/app/oracle/product/8.0.5
>
>$ ls -al
>total 5
> 1 drwx------ 5 oracle dba 1024 Sep 24 14:46 ./
> 1 drwx------ 3 oracle dba 1024 Sep 24 13:39 ../
> 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle dba 1024 Sep 24 14:43 bin/
> 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle dba 1024 Sep 24 14:46 dbs/
> 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle dba 1024 Sep 24 14:47 orainst/
>
>$ id
>uid=600(oracle) gid=600(dba) groups=600(dba)
>
>Similarly, all the directories /oracle01, /oracle01/app, ...
>are owned by oracle.dba.
>
>How can I get around this?
>
>Many thanks -
>
>Steve
>
>
>
Received on Sat Oct 09 1999 - 11:03:00 CDT