SAM and Oracle Universal Installer behaving ODD

[Ravi S. Banda]

Hi, everyone,
For some reason, when I launch SAM or Oracle Universal installer using X-windows, they behave very odd. I don't understand why.
I don't see the NEXT button on the installer, the installer gets stuck at one location and gives a white-screen for the window when I go to other windows and come back.

In SAM, it shows WHITE scroll bars for horizontal and vertical scroll bars indicating that it requires more memory or something.

I'm on hp-ux 11.11 model: hp-9000 (rp3440).

ps: I can use the same CD on other unix-based servers and launch the installer immediately without glitches.

Specs of the problem server: 8GB RAM, Single Processor 1000MHZ, Swap Space: Used: 191 MB, Free: 3905MB.

Can anybody think of anything offhand.

Kernel parameters like shmmax, shmmni etc. have been increased, too. No luck!

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

If you are using hummingbird exceed to get the X windows, you can try this link,

http://www.hummingbird.com/support/nc/exceed/ex60322.html?searchType=Basic&searchText=oracle%20installar&rank=5

Looks into the exceed help sections.

Hope this helps.

regds

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi,

Could you please run
/usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt
and check its output
Additinally look at network status by
lanadmin
And, finally, if you use NIS, look at its status as well.

HTH

[Ravi S. Banda]

After checking the log and After I copied the /var/adm/inetd.sec, which was missing, from a similar server and edited the file to replace the hostname with the right hostname,
I got:

Dr_dt finished with:

0 ERROR messages
1 WARNING messages - regarding / directory

drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 8192 Jan 22 14:30

lanadmin:
I did NOT know what to check under lanadmin, but did a 'display' under lanadmin. Results:

LAN INTERFACE STATUS DISPLAY
Sun, Jan 22,2006 15:06:46

PPA Number = 0
Description = lan0 HP PCI Core I/O 1000Base-T Release B.11.1
1.21
Type (value) = ethernet-csmacd(6)
MTU Size = 1500
Speed = 100000000
Station Address = 0x14c21023bd
Administration Status (value) = up(1)
Operation Status (value) = up(1)
Last Change = 252
Inbound Octets = 1128269640
Inbound Unicast Packets = 918576
Inbound Non-Unicast Packets = 1520068
Inbound Discards = 0
Inbound Errors = 0
Inbound Unknown Protocols = 220631
Outbound Octets = 537119976
Outbound Unicast Packets = 641352
Outbound Non-Unicast Packets = 41
Outbound Discards = 0
Outbound Errors = 0
Outbound Queue Length = 0
Specific = 655367
Ethernet-like Statistics Group

Index = 1
Alignment Errors = 0
FCS Errors = 0
Single Collision Frames = 0
Multiple Collision Frames = 0
Deferred Transmissions = 0
Late Collisions = 0
Excessive Collisions = 0
Internal MAC Transmit Errors = 0
Carrier Sense Errors = 0
Frames Too Long = 0
Internal MAC Receive Errors = 0


LAN Interface test mode. LAN Interface PPA Number = 0

Thanks!
Ravi.

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi,

Remove .dt directory under the homedir of the user which you use ( root ?). After the nest startup check errorlog under this directory.
BTW, which X-application do you use ? Exceed ?

[Ravi S. Banda]

I'm using Reflection X, not exceed.

I removed the .dt directory and error_log:

*** STDERR(1): (/usr/dt/bin/dtexec) /bin/sh: PID 11298: Mon Jan 23 09:28:52 2006
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Cannot convert string "-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-s*-*-*-*-*-*-
*-*-*" to type FontSet

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