Re: Problems with OUI......anyone ever see this?

amerar_at_iwc.net wrote:
> gazzag wrote:
> > amerar_at_iwc.net wrote:
> > > FOUND IT.........there is a line in the response file there is a line
> > > which points to the products.xml file. Dumb thing had an extra period.
> > >
> > > Problem is, now that I fixed that, the next error on the line is:
> > >
> > > Error:Values for the following variables could not be obtained from the
> > > command line or response file(s):
> > > ORACLE_HOME(OracleHome),
> > > ORACLE_HOME_NAME(OracleHomeName)
> > > Silent install cannot continue.
> > >
> > >
> > > And those values ARE in the response file.........
> > >
> > > The quest continues!
> >
> > What does env|grep ORA give you? I'd try explicitly exporting those
> > environment variables to set them correctly.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > -g
>
>
> Ok, totally weird. Someone started the listener. The database and
> listener obviously need to be shutdown. Shut down the listener and
> the silent install started to run.
>
> But the error message is TOTALLY misleading...........
>
> Patch is applying as we speak. We'll wait for the result.

Don't the instructions for installing the patch ask you to verify that the database and listener / etc
are down?

Did you skip that part?

TOTALLY misleading error messages ... not exactly unfortunately anything new. Received on Wed May 31 2006 - 09:43:55 CDT