Re: Oracle8 orainst on Solaris 2.6: "cannot execute"?

Thanks very much for the tip. My distribution does not seem to come with the runInstaller script, though. I will try putting the oracle user into the oinstall group though, that part wasn't in the documentation I have.

Chuck.

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 13:54:44 GMT, dannypacheco_at_my-deja.com wrote:

>I installed Oracle8i on Solaris 2.7.
>The oracle user should also be part of a group called
>oinstall, since this group will own some of the directories.
>You wrote that you were trying to run orainst, I'm not sure
>if Oracle8 and Oracle8i are the same, but I used a script
>called runInstaller supply on the CD.
>BTW the four mounting points should not cause you a problem.
>
>In article <3777d093.31892919_at_24.2.0.71>,
> junkmail_at_greyswan.com wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've got this rather annoying little problem happening while trying to
>> install Oracle 8 Enterprise Edition on Solaris 2.6.
>>
>> I've downloaded the installation instructions PDF file from Oracle
>> Technet and have followed all the instructions up to the point when
>> I'm actually supposed to run the orainst shell script. In other
>> words, the following are true:
>>
>> 1) Solaris user oracle exists and is part of the group dba.
>> 2) The appropriate environment variables have all been set (these
>> include ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_BASE, ORACLE_SID, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and
>> ORACLE_TERM) and I've made the needed changes to the PATH variable.
>> 3) I've edited /etc/system to modify the kernel shared memory
>> parameters recommended in the Oracle documentation and restarted the
>> machine
>> 4) Created the oratab file using the oratab.sh script
>>
>> The only thing I did not do that the document recommended was create 4
>> separate mount points for the Oracle installation (1 for the product,
>> and three for the databases). I didn't do this because I just don't
>> have any free disk space to create more mount points. And this
>> database is simply for my development and toying around, if it crashes
>> my life will go on uninterrupted.
>>
>> Now, when I log in as the Oracle user, cd to the
>> /cdrom/oracle805/orainst directory and run the orainst shell script
>> (I'm running in Bourne shell, BTW, as the Oracle documentation uses
>> Bourne shell in its examples), the machine chugs for a few seconds,
>> and then I get the following error message:
>>
>> ./orainst: ./orainst.cm: cannot execute.
>>
>> A check of both orainst and orainst.cm shows me that both of these
>> files are set executable by everyone, so I would assume that's not the
>> problem. My guess is that some library needed by orainst.cm is
>> missing or not in my path. Can anyone give me some guidance as to
>> what I might be missing here? Could this be caused by not having all
>> the mount points the docs recommend?
>>
>> Chuck.
>>
>
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Received on Wed Jun 30 1999 - 13:26:34 CDT