sapinst crashes on AIX for NW04s SR1 Installation

[Former Member]

hi all,

I am trying to install SAP NW04s SR1 on AIX ... but I am not able to start the installation GUI ... is simply gives the following message and stops ... pls help me!

bash-2.05b#./sapinst

[==============================] - extracting... done!

Starting GuiServer using:

/usr/java14_64/jre/bin/java -cp /tmp/sapinst_exe.585976.1158340776/JAR/instgui.jar:/tmp/sapinst_exe.585976.1158340776/JAR/inqmyxml.jar -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/urandom SDTServer config=jar:sdtserver.xml guiport=21212 sapinsthost=localhost sapinstport=21200 guistart=true

103 controller.xmlToObject.XmlFileIsNotAControlXml /softwares/sap/nw04s/51031797-mySAPBS2005-Installation-Master/IM_AIX_PPC64/product.catalog, 78

103 controller.xmlToObject.XmlFileIsNotAControlXml /softwares/sap/nw04s/51031797-mySAPBS2005-Installation-Master/IM_AIX_PPC64/product.catalog, 78

Thanks in Advance!

Venkat/

[former_member192350]

Normally, you'd create the /tmp/sapinst_instdir directory and make it the current working directory, then execute sapinst by specifying the path to the CD, for example:

1. mkdir /tmp/sapinst_instdir

2. cd /tmp/sapinst_instdir

3. /softwares/sap/nw04s/[...]/IM_AIX_PPC64/SAPINST/sapinst

(or whatever the actual path is). If you've run sapinst in the /softwares/[...] folder, you may need to re-extract that CD as it may have overwritten the control.xml file from the CD with the generated / extracted version.

Rich