Linux Logs me off!
 

I am trying to install Oracle 10g on Suse 9.1 Pro and whenver I go to run it, it logs me off! I'm installing it as user oracle and I type

./runInstaller -IgnoreSysPrereqs

It does create a log file, but that's not very helpful in determining the reason why it shuts off. I can't install Oracle as Root because it will say must be oracle user to install. Can anyone think of any ideas as to why I get logged off everytime I run the installer? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

What does said log file contain? :)
And try running it with

./runInstaller -IgnoreSysPrereqs &> output

Which will pipe whatever else it says to output. Note, you put ignoresysprereqs, there's generally an amazing reason as to why there are prereqs (being that it won't make without them)

The reason why I run it with -IgnoreSysPreReqs is because Suse 9.1 is not one of the recommended platforms for 10g. I found instructions online from other people who have successfully installed Oracle on suse 9.1 and this is how they ran their installer. If I run it without the ingnoresysprereq, then the installer won't even run. This is the output file that I get:

Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

Checking installer requirements...

Checking operating system version: must be redhat-2.1, UnitedLinux-1.0 or redhat
-3
Failed <<<<


>>> Ignoring required pre-requisite failures. Continuing...

Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2004-10-22_12
-21-13PM. Please wait ...Oracle Universal Installer, Version 10.1.0.2.0 Producti
on
Copyright (C) 1999, 2004, Oracle. All rights reserved.


The output file doesn't seem to be very helpful. Any ideas?

My guess is that something having to do with permissions or a library conflict is causing the machine to bounce you out of your user account.

I had a similar problem with Cedega running one particular windoze game with SuSE 9.1.

May I suggest giving your user account more permissions status (like to just shy of root privileges) temporarily so that you can install the thing, then switching it back???

hmm i will have to try this out. thanks.

That appears to not be the problem. I think it has something to do with the display. In the log file, it shows that it finds the universal installer, but instead of displaying the window, it logs me off. So i think maybe i have to set the DISPLAY differently. That's my theory....but i don't know much.

Try to post the log up. There might be clues as to what is going on.

If you are inside X, it will open an X window, meddling in DISPLAY is rarely (read, extremely rarely) needed, and beneficial. If you can run an X app from that terminal, DISPLAY is set just fine.

If that fails, repeat the above idea with the output file, and use strace (or ltrace, they should both be fine in case) to see what file it tries to run and fails to do so.
That might tell you why. (Note the output is messy unless you know what's going on, I'm sure you can find a tutorial on those two on google somewhere)