[newbie] Why does not my installer start?

[ketil V.]

I am trying to install Oracle 8.1.7-3 on a clean SuSE 8.2 -
based system, but the Installer will not pop up any interface!

What I have done is the following:
- Installed 8.2, and upgraded with the latest patches using
YaST2
- Installed Blackdown JRE, so there is a
/usr/local/jdk118_v3 - directory with the correct Java
- Created a soft link from this directory to /usr/local/java
- Installed orarin81.rpm, unpacked the 8.1.7 tar-file from
Oracle to /install/
- Created a oracle home with the info from /etc/skel/ as
suggested in the SuSE paper 718_sles7_install.pdf
- Logged in (KDE) as user oracle, started xterm and ran
/install/Disk1/runInstaller

This not did the trick, so I started from scratch once more,
WITHOUT updating the distro, in case SuSE have any updated RPMs
with side effects.

When this did not solve the problem either, I tried to unset the
variables LANG, LC_CTYPE, RC_TYPE and LC_COLLATE in the xterm I
use to start the runInstaller script.

Now, the runInstaller script make the prompt free again, and a
ps -a shows both runInstaller and jre running. The processor is
working hard on something, so something have happened.

But the installer is still not visible...

Dows anybody have any suggestions about
what I might be missing ?

- The computer got 320 MB RAM, so I dont think that should be
the problem...

[Steve]

"ketil V." <ke*****@c2i.netwrote in message news:<z%********************@juliett.dax.net>...

I am trying to install Oracle 8.1.7-3 on a clean SuSE 8.2 -
based system, but the Installer will not pop up any interface!

What I have done is the following:
- Installed 8.2, and upgraded with the latest patches using
YaST2
- Installed Blackdown JRE, so there is a
/usr/local/jdk118_v3 - directory with the correct Java
- Created a soft link from this directory to /usr/local/java
- Installed orarin81.rpm, unpacked the 8.1.7 tar-file from
Oracle to /install/
- Created a oracle home with the info from /etc/skel/ as
suggested in the SuSE paper 718_sles7_install.pdf
- Logged in (KDE) as user oracle, started xterm and ran
/install/Disk1/runInstaller

This not did the trick, so I started from scratch once more,
WITHOUT updating the distro, in case SuSE have any updated RPMs
with side effects.

When this did not solve the problem either, I tried to unset the
variables LANG, LC_CTYPE, RC_TYPE and LC_COLLATE in the xterm I
use to start the runInstaller script.

Now, the runInstaller script make the prompt free again, and a
ps -a shows both runInstaller and jre running. The processor is
working hard on something, so something have happened.

But the installer is still not visible...

Dows anybody have any suggestions about
what I might be missing ?

- The computer got 320 MB RAM, so I dont think that should be
the problem...

Because you haven't set the DISPLAY variable correctly.

[sybrandb]

"ketil V." <ke*****@c2i.netwrote in message news:<R8********************@juliett.dax.net>...

Steve wrote:

"ketil V." <ke*****@c2i.netwrote in message news:<z%********************@juliett.dax.net>...

>I am trying to install Oracle 8.1.7-3 on a clean SuSE 8.2 -
based system, but the Installer will not pop up any interface!

What I have done is the following:
- Installed 8.2, and upgraded with the latest patches using
YaST2
- Installed Blackdown JRE, so there is a
/usr/local/jdk118_v3 - directory with the correct Java
- Created a soft link from this directory to /usr/local/java
- Installed orarin81.rpm, unpacked the 8.1.7 tar-file from
Oracle to /install/
- Created a oracle home with the info from /etc/skel/ as
suggested in the SuSE paper 718_sles7_install.pdf
- Logged in (KDE) as user oracle, started xterm and ran
/install/Disk1/runInstaller

This not did the trick, so I started from scratch once more,
WITHOUT updating the distro, in case SuSE have any updated RPMs
with side effects.

When this did not solve the problem either, I tried to unset the
variables LANG, LC_CTYPE, RC_TYPE and LC_COLLATE in the xterm I
use to start the runInstaller script.

Now, the runInstaller script make the prompt free again, and a
ps -a shows both runInstaller and jre running. The processor is
working hard on something, so something have happened.

But the installer is still not visible...

Dows anybody have any suggestions about
what I might be missing ?

- The computer got 320 MB RAM, so I dont think that should be
the problem...

Because you haven't set the DISPLAY variable correctly.

hmmm, I believed that since I was able to start other graphical
programs, as Mozilla, from xterm, I were able to start the
installer as well. (Silly me...)

What is the values for the DISPLAY variable? - Ideally I would
like to run the installer from a xterm console on a remote
computer, via ssh (ssh 192.168.2.96 -loracle)

<name or ip of your terminal>:0.0

On the server :0 should be sufficient

Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA