oracle installation freezes at 85%

[Maaz]

OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise SP1
DB: Oracle 9i Release 2

installation stucks/hangs on 85% without showing any error.(snapshot attached)

help
Regards

[Jeeshan]

you need to check out lot more things.

1. Memory utilization at that time
2. check log file of oracle installation.
3. check dependency of linux packages
4. check the kernel parameters

[Maaz]

Hi ahsan
>3 check log file of oracle installation.
how ? where and which files should i check ?

>4. check the kernel parameters
I have attached the /etc/sysconfig/oracle(installed by orarun rpm/script)
I have installed the orarun rpm from the installation media of SLES10 SP2
# rpm -qi orarun
Name : orarun Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 1.9 Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Release : 21.24 Build Date: Tue Apr 22 07:46:34 2008
Install Date: Thu Jul 3 13:03:01 2008 Build Host: rinck.suse.de
Group : Productivity/Databases/Tools Source RPM: orarun-1.9-21.24.src.rpm
Size : 74315 License: GPL v2 or later
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue Apr 22 07:49:25 2008, Key ID a84edae89c800aca
Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org
URL : http://www.novell.com/oracle/
Summary : An Environment for Running Oracle Products
Description :
This package creates the user and the groups for Oracle, sets the Oracle environment variables, sets kernel parameters to values
recommended by Oracle, and provides for utomated start and stop of Oracle components at system start and stop time. It also includes dependencies for other software packages needed to install and use Oracle, so that when you select this package the other packages are included automatically (when you install via YaST2) or that you are at least reminded to install them (when installing via the rpm command).
This package is not required for running Oracle but it simplifies things significantly.

You can edit all settings via YaST2.

http://www.novell.com/oracle/

Regards

[Oviwan]

hey

why you don't use 10gR2? you could also run the pre-install validate script. you can get this from metalink.oracle.com

regards

[Maaz]

Hi Oviwan
>why you don't use 10gR2?...
Customer's requirement ;)

ahsan
>1. Memory utilization at that time
#free -m
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 10145 796 9349 0 159
454
-/+ buffers/cache: 182 9963
Swap: 2047 0 2047

>3. check dependency of linux packages
following rpms are installed.
binutils
orarun
openmotif
openmotif-libs
openmotif21
pdksh
sysstat
termcap
expat
compat
libstdc++
libaio
libaio-devel
libgcc
libgcj
glibc
glibc++
cpp
gcc
gcc-c++
gcc-locale
gcc-objc
gcc-objc-c++
gcc-java
java-1_4_2-sun
kernel-source

should I also install "apache"

[Jeeshan]

apache installation is not necessary.

the log file is installation log. go to the /tmp file system and you can found the directories named Orainstall* type folders. here you can get the log files.