Linux install - error writing to file $ORACLE_HOME/install/utl/unixenv

From: Lars Weber <lwng_at_ion.ag>
Date: 11 Jul 2002 01:11:09 -0700
Message-ID: <d2aa5308.0207110011.1ddcf1b5_at_posting.google.com>

Hi all!

I'm trying to install Oracle 9.2.0 Enterprise Edition on a machine running Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody).
The installer always stops at about 4% of the common installation, telling me there was an error writing to

/opt/oracle/OraHome1/install/utl/unixenv

and leaving me no other option than to retry or cancel. Retry doesn't work, so I don't really get past this point. $ORACLE_HOME is /opt/oracle/OraHome1 as one might have guessed already.

I already checked the filesystem and found no errors, so the write error can't be the result of a media defect.

Anyone got a hint on that problem?

Thanks in advance,
Lars Weber

P.S.: after cancelling the installation the content of that generated file unixenv is:

#!/bin/sh

#
# $Header: unixenv 22-jun-00.17:29:42 menash Exp $ Copyr (c) 1994
Oracle
#
# unixenv Report details of the current unix environment
#
# This is intended to be a portable shell script to dump
out
# the main Unix configuration details for a given
platform.
# A number of 'standard' commands are tried to gather
the
# relevant information. The script is not guaranteed to
# work.
#

echo " "
echo "Machine Environment:"
echo "--------------------"
echo " "

#
# Which echo to use ?
#

if `echo -n| grep n >/dev/null 2>&1` ; then

        ECHO="echo"
        NC='\c'
else
        ECHO="echo -n"
        NC=""

fi;
#

(
init()
{
  PREV=1;
  echo $1
}
tryit()
{
  if [ $PREV -ne 0 ] ; then
   if $* ; then

        PREV=$?
        echo "[From $*]"

   fi;
  fi;
}

echo " "
echo "User:              `id`"
echo "Current Directory: `pwd`"
init "Machine: {"
        tryit uname -X
        tryit uname -a
        tryit uname
        init " "
        tryit hostname

echo "}"
init "Ulimit: {"

        (ulimit -a)
        PREV=$?
        tryit  csh -f -c limit
        if [ $PREV -ne 0 ]; then
                (ulimit)
        fi;
        echo "}"
init "Swap: {"
        tryit swapinfo -l
        tryit /etc/swapinfo -l
        tryit swap -l
        tryit /etc/swap -l
        tryit /etc/pstat -s
        tryit sar -r 1 1
        tryit vmstat
        echo "}"
init "Disk Mounts: {"
        tryit mount
        tryit /etc/mount
        echo "}"

init "Disk Free: {"

        tryit df -k

        tryit df
        echo "}"
init "Environment: {"
        env | sort

echo "}"
init "System Tables: {"

        tryit sar -v 1 1
        tryit /etc/pstat -T

echo "}"
init "Semaphores: {"

        tryit ipcs -sa
        init " "
        tryit /etc/sysdef | grep SEM

echo "}"
init "Shared Mem: {"

        tryit ipcs -ma
        init " "
        tryit /etc/sysdef | grep SHM

echo "}"
OT="x"
if [ -r /var/opt/oracle/oratab ]; then

        OT=/var/opt/oracle/oratab
else if [ -r /etc/oratab ]; then

        OT=/etc/oratab
fi;
fi;
if [ "$OT" $* ; thethen

        OT=/e" "
        t $*    tryitSHM
e1
        "^#"  $*if [ "}"
OT="x$"ech "T/oring     tr $NCyit givirma dbx xdb sdb adb t/ored tuss
prss crxp $kcrxp $debug gdb st/oreddg_st/ore
        do
        id`"( $i ) <null 2>&1` ; t 1/null 2>&1`|SHM
e1i 'uaraf      ecmma> null 2>&1
        id`"$PREV ?0 ] ; then

   iho $"ech "$i $NCyit ;
  f

        dono "}"
init " "
echo )` ;null 2>&1`| awk 'BEGINtr pfxi;  }REVt ;/}$/ tr pfxi;
 }REVt r prdedf "%s%s\n",pfx,$0 };
}t ;/\{$/ r pfxi;
 }' Received on Thu Jul 11 2002 - 10:11:09 CEST