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Re: Pb with Oracle9i on Mandrake 9

From: Hans Forbrich <forbrich_at_telusplanet.net>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 22:11:04 GMT
Message-ID: <3EBD77A7.F1969B56@telusplanet.net>


vincent wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I use Mandrake 9 and trying to install Oracle9i.
> I followed all pre installation tasks, including a previous installation
> of binutils (2.10 instead of 2.11).
> When I execute runInstaller under oracle user I have the following :
>
> ./runInstaller: line 58: ./runInstaller: cannot execute binary file

I'm guessing here - but this reminds me of some Solaris hiccups I ran into about 3 yers ago.

If I'm not mistaken runInstaller is a shell script. If so, what is on line 58? I'd guess that points to a program (executable) in the install directory and that executable is set to not executable.

I just did a complete install from CD (Tech Tracks - pretty reasonable price!) with no issues at all.

These 2 items lead me to believe you likely downloaded the Linux tarball and untar'd it using tar xvf, right? Which in turn leads me to suspect that the entire set of directories is set to a non-Oracle owner and probably has r/o permissions.

In which case you might want to recheck the download instructions about the tar flags to be used when extracting. Or one very dirty way around this then is to chmod -R +x the whole extracted file set. That is real dirty though and could open a lot of security holes down the road if the installer doesn't go through all permissions properly.

As I say, I'm guessing. In part because your desription is also a bit short.

> This sounds strange and a bit short to continue.
>
> Please, I need help :
> Thank You
> Vincent
Received on Sat May 10 2003 - 17:11:04 CDT

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