Re: runInstaller error, 8.1.5, Solaris 2.6

I fixed this after discovering that there were directories lying around after a very early aborted install, which were not owned by "oinstall" group . This new group is a royal pain to those who've installed Oracle for years without it.

In article <7u2dh7$vhu$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   chrisoc_at_ans.net wrote:
>
>
> I'm running the runInstall program as user "oracle" with
> primary group "oinstall", additional group "dba".
>
> I keep getting an errormsg: unixGetCurrentGroupOfUser
> and I have to press on using a default that I guess
> the underlying script provides.
>
> I have /usr/local/gnu/bin in my path ahead of /usr/ccs/bin
> and was thinking maybe the Gnu "groups" command was getting
> exec'ed with poor results. Removing from my path caused the
> whole "make install" to fail though.
>
> Anyone else have this problem?
>
> Here is the tail of the installActions.log showing the call
> that returns a null value, and showing also that the getGroups()
> call returned good values just before it.
>
> I'd love to see that part of the log from some installation that
> did NOT get the error, to see what it is looking for.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris O'Connor
>
> ************ tail of installActions.log file **************
>
> Setting value of sl_sidsAndHomesDetected to
> Calling query unixQueries1.6.0.2.1 getGroups
> Query returned : oinstall,dba,
> Calling query unixQueries1.6.0.2.1 getCurrentGroupOfUser
>
> Query Exception: GetCurrentGroupException
> Query Exception Class: class oracle.sysman.oii.oiil.OiilQueryException
>
> Setting value of b_promptForGroups to false
>
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Before you buy. Received on Wed Oct 27 1999 - 13:08:07 CDT