Re: Installation of Oracle 8.1.7 on SunOS 5.8 fails

From: Karl Hahn <hahnk_at_forwiss.tu-muenchen.de>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:31:43 +0200
Message-ID: <3D16D8EF.72267996@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:
>
> *****
> 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.
> *****

Thank you Daniel and Jason!

With your help I found the problem:

the orainstRoot.sh created the file /var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc with rights 644. I have no idea why, but the rights of the directory /var/opt/oracle was 700, so user 'oracle' couldn't read the file in this directory. I did a 'chmod 755 /var/opt/oracle' and now it works.

Bye and thanks again,
Charlie Received on Mon Jun 24 2002 - 03:31:43 CDT