Re: Oracle Installer doesn't seem to recognize available swap space when de-installing.

"Jeroen van den Broek" <nltaal_at_baasbovenbaas.demon.nl> schreef in bericht news:1195065010.910458.18910_at_22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
> Suse SLES-9 on zSeries (64-bit)
> Oracle10gR2 (10.2.0.3)
>
> About two weeks ago I did an unsuccessful install that failed during
> the link phase (due to a missing 32-bit package that wasn't mentioned
> in the Install Guide), although it passed the prerequisite check
> without any errors.
> Now I wanted to give it another go after doing a cleanup by running
> the silent deinstall command mentioned in the OUI and OPatch User
> Guide:
>
> ---------
> ./runInstaller -deinstall ORACLE_HOME=<LOCATION_OF_ORACLE_HOME>
> "REMOVE_
> HOMES={<LOCATION_OF_ORACLE_HOME_TO_BE_REMOVED>}" -silent
> ---------
>
> To my surprise, it failed during the same prerequisite check that was
> passed during the install:
>
> ---------
> Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
>
> Checking installer requirements...
>
> Checking operating system version: must be redhat-3, SuSE-9, redhat-4,
> UnitedLinux-1.0, asianux-1 or asianux-2
> Passed
>
>
> All installer requirements met.
>
> Checking Temp space: must be greater than 80 MB. Actual 1348 MB
> Passed
> Checking swap space: 0 MB available, 150 MB required. Failed <<<<
>
> Some optional pre-requisite checks have failed (see above).
> ---------
>
> However, there is more than enough swapspace available:
>
> ---------
> grep SwapTotal /proc/meminfo
> SwapTotal: 1048568 kB
> ---------
>
> Anyone seen something like this before or have a hint at what might be
> the cause of this?
>
> --
> Jeroen
>

Did you put your environment in 32 bit emulation before starting the installer?

Shakespeare Received on Fri Nov 16 2007 - 04:29:53 CST