Installation of Oracle 8.1.7 on SunOS 5.8 fails

From: Karl Hahn <hahnk_at_forwiss.tu-muenchen.de>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:19:51 +0200
Message-ID: <3D11D677.8FC93C45@forwiss.tu-muenchen.de>

Hi,

I have a problem with the installation of Oracle 8.1.7: after executing the script orainstRoot.sh and continuing with the 'Retry' button I get the error message:

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The Oracle Universal Installer Inventory on this system does not exist or is not writable. The possible causes are: 1. The /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/orainstRoot.sh script was not executed with root priveledges, or an error occurred during execution.
2. You are not a member of the specified Installer group.

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-> 1. I am root, there are no errors, directories exist (user is oracle, group is oinstall (as recommended in 'installation guide'):

> id

uid=0(root) gid=1(other)
> ./orainstRoot.sh

Creating Oracle Inventory pointer file (/var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc) Changing groupname of /opt/oracle/oraInventory to oinstall.
> ls -al /var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc

-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 59 Jun 20 15:11 /var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc
> ls -al /opt/oracle/oraInventory

total 6

drwxrwxr-x   2 oracle   oinstall     512 Jun 20 14:58 .
drwxrwxr-x   4 oracle   oinstall     512 Jun 20 14:59 ..
-rw-rw-r--   1 oracle   oinstall      19 Jun 20 14:58 install.platform

-> 2. User oracle is member of 'oinstall' (primary) and 'dba' (secondary) as recommended in the 'installation guide'. I also tried to have 'oracle' only in the group 'dba', makes no difference.

> id

uid=18305(oracle) gid=201(oinstall)
> groups

oinstall dba

So what is my problem? Any hints?

Thank you in advance,
Charlie Received on Thu Jun 20 2002 - 08:19:51 CDT