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From: peter.peltonen@iki.fi
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Subject: Re: 9i (9.2.0.1.0) Install problems
Date: 8 Aug 2002 08:41:35 GMT
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Pootie <pootie@london.com> wrote:
> The problem is when it get to the point where the various assistants are
> supposed to kick in, they fail.  The DB never gets created, etc.  I am not
> savvy enough to understand what is happening, but I am sure one who has gone
> down this install road has the proper solution.  I would appreciate the
> help.

I had a similiar problem under RH7 -- The assistants failed. There were 
two reasons for it:

1) My ORACLE_SID variable was set wrongly so the DB Assistant failed.

2) I had smnpd and a Dell's SNMP based hardware monitoring tool running
   which prevented the Agent Assistant from starting.

I`ve also heard of cases where you just had to Retry the execution of the 
DB Assistant for it to work.

Regards,
Peter