SAPINST

[Former Member]

We are not able run SAPINST , can any one help me.

We are on HPunix/Oracleinstalling 4.7, installed java and also entered the env variable for java, followed the SAP doc , but still we are not able to run SAPINST. There is no error message .

Please help me .

thanks in advance

[Former Member]

Hi,

I think you are not able to start SAPINST GUI , is it rite?

If that is the case: please follow below things to make SAPINST works:

1. Include the java environment variable in PATH environment variable and also with /bin and /jre directory means <javapath>/bin and <javapath>/jre .

2. check whether xmanager is installed or not, if installed set the DISPLAY variable. Give the DISPLAY variable as <IP address>:1.0 or 0.1 or 2.0 or 0.2, if still its not working put <IP address>:0.0

3. Be in root, means : root> cd

afterwards, root> ls -lart

then you can find .Xauthority file, please copy that to your home directory of <sid>adm.

means logon with sidadm and do pwd, you can get the home directory of sidadm, like /home/<sid>adm

copy means : from root > cp .Xauthority /home/sidadm/ ( check home directory)

Then set the DISPLAY variable and then check whether it is working or not using /usr/openwin/bin/xclock

4.And also check ulimit -a, if all are in unlimited then fine.

Please do all the above steps and let me know if still issue persists.

Thanks

Kishore

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have already entered the java envirmonemnt variable.

I am still not able to run SAPINST

i have created a directory for SAPINST and copied the files to sapinst and tried to run but no success.

Host >cd /INST/SAPINST/UNIX/HP11_64/INSTALL

/sbin/sh: /inst/SAPINST/UNIX/HP11_64/INSTALL: The specified path name is not a directory.

Thanks,

pl help

[Former Member]

Hi,

Dont use that path: Host >cd /INST/SAPINST/UNIX/HP11_64/INSTALL, why you are using INSTALL under HP11_64,

You can find sapinst under HP11_64. use that, you will get sapinst, if not send me the error.

I will look into that.

Thanks

Kishore

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply,

I am trying to execute as u said, but not successfull.

Host >cd /INST/SAPINST/UNIX/HP11_64

Host >ls

CONTROL.DTD INSTALL KEYDB.XML PACKAGES.XML SAPPROD.SAR

CONTROL.XML INSTGUI.SAR MESSAGES.DTD PRODUCT.XML TOPLEVEL.XML

DIALOG.XML INSTPFLCI.XML MESSAGES.XML SAPCAR

DOC.DTD INSTPFLDI.XML ORADBPAR.XML SAPINST.SAR

EXPORTCDS.XML KEYDB.DTD PACKAGES.DTD SAPINSTGUI.DTD

Host >cd /INST/SAPINST/UNIX/HP11_64/SAPINST

/sbin/sh: /INST/SAPINST/UNIX/HP11_64/SAPINST : The specified path name is not a directory.

Host >cd /INST/SAPINST/UNIX/HP11_64/SAPINSTGUI

/sbin/sh: /INST/SAPINST/UNIX/HP11_64/SAPINSTGUI: The specified path name is not a directory.

I donu2019t understand what to do. Do you have any notes or documentation regd the same.

thanks

[markus_doehr2]

It seems you are installing from an OLD CD set - not using sapinst but R3setup - this must be called

./R3SETUP -f CENTRAL.R3S for the central instance and

./R3SETUP -f DATABASE.R3S for the database instance

I HIGHLY suggest you download a new installation CD/DVD set from the service marketplace, the version you seem to use is ancient!

Markus

[Former Member]

Hi markus , we are installing 4.7 , that is the cd given by SAP.

, do i still need to download .

[markus_doehr2]

Please do an "ls -l" on the root of your installation master CD and post the content here.

Markus

[Former Member]

Here are the details

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 75 Jul 25 09:42 CDLABEL.ASC

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 75 Jul 25 09:42 CDLABEL.EBC

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 7929 Jul 25 09:42 COPY_TM.HTM

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 4092 Jul 25 09:42 COPY_TM.TXT

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 4092 Jul 25 09:42 COPY_TM.txt

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 8508 Jul 25 09:42 CRCFILE.DAT

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 46 Jul 25 09:42 LABEL.ASC

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 46 Jul 25 09:42 LABEL.EBC

drwxr-x--- 4 root sys 96 Jul 25 09:41 NT

drwxr-x--- 4 root sys 96 Jul 25 09:42 SAPINST

drwxr-x--- 2 root sys 96 Jul 25 09:51 TRANS

drwxr-x--- 8 root sys 8192 Jul 25 09:41 UNIX

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 44 Jul 25 09:42 VERSION.ASC

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 44 Jul 25 09:42 VERSION.EBC

[Former Member]

Under /SAPINST/UNIX/HP11_64

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 5688 Jul 25 09:47 CONTROL.DTD

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 1987054 Jul 25 09:47 CONTROL.XML

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 387177 Jul 25 09:47 DIALOG.XML

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 3027 Jul 25 09:47 DOC.DTD

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 2878 Jul 25 09:47 EXPORTCDS.XML

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 20050 Jul 25 09:47 INSTALL

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 914580 Jul 25 09:47 INSTGUI.SAR

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 329 Jul 25 09:47 INSTPFLCI.XML

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 329 Jul 25 09:47 INSTPFLDI.XML

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 1698 Jul 25 09:47 KEYDB.DTD

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 3244674 Jul 25 09:47 KEYDB.XML

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 1035 Jul 25 09:47 MESSAGES.DTD

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 267799 Jul 25 09:47 MESSAGES.XML

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 82937 Jul 25 09:47 ORADBPAR.XML

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 266 Jul 25 09:47 PACKAGES.DTD

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 3785 Jul 25 09:47 PACKAGES.XML

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 2052 Jul 25 09:47 PRODUCT.XML

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 16209824 Jul 25 09:48 SAPCAR

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 18175221 Jul 25 09:49 SAPINST.SAR

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 7546 Jul 25 09:49 SAPINSTGUI.DTD

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 4398903 Jul 25 09:49 SAPPROD.SAR

-rw-r----- 1 root sys 584 Jul 25 09:49 TOPLEVEL.XML

[markus_doehr2]

Ok - good!

Now step to

cd UNIX/HP11_64/

./sapinst

Markus

[markus_doehr2]

This CD looks really strange.

What's the CD number of it? Check in the root directory the "LABEL.ASC"

Markus

[Former Member]

CD no 51019679

[Former Member]

Host>cd UNIX/HP11_64

Host >./sapinst

/sbin/sh: ./sapinst: not found.

Thanks

[markus_doehr2]

Try a

find . -name "sapinst"

in the root directory of the CD.

Markus

[Former Member]

Even though i do

HOST >pwd

SAPINST/UNIX/HP11_64

HOST >ls

CONTROL.DTD EXPORTCDS.XML INSTPFLDI.XML MESSAGES.XML PRODUCT.XML SAPPROD.SAR

CONTROL.XML INSTALL KEYDB.DTD ORADBPAR.XML SAPCAR TOPLEVEL.XML

DIALOG.XML INSTGUI.SAR KEYDB.XML PACKAGES.DTD SAPINST.SAR

DOC.DTD INSTPFLCI.XML MESSAGES.DTD PACKAGES.XML SAPINSTGUI.DTD

HOST >./SAPINST

/sbin/sh: ./SAPINST: not found.

[Former Member]

find . -name "sapinst":--- Nothing found when I have searched for the same.

find . -name "SAPINST"

/SAPINST -

---

This is what it has found.

[markus_doehr2]

This is the directory.

It seems that the system did only copy the files with CAPITAL letters, not all files. sapinst is written in lower case letters.

Try to mount the CD and try to find the lower case "sapinst" there.

Markus

[Former Member]

Hi iam trying to mount the CD as below

mount -r -F cdfs /dev/dsk/disk device /sapcd

Disk device what should i give.

[markus_doehr2]

if you don't know the device number you can use swat to mount the CD easily.

Markus

[Former Member]

Hi,

Solved the problem, it is because i haven't created SAPINST directory, after creating, i was able to execute SAPinst.

Now i have another problem, when i am installing the Database instance, installation stops at this point

The authorizations have been set for /install/SAPinst/CROCLLNK.

INFO 2008-07-30 11:52:34

Creating file /install/SAPinst/crocllnk.log.

INFO 2008-07-30 11:52:34

See './CROCLLNK -v -b 64' output in 'crocllnk.log'.

ERROR 2008-07-30 11:52:34

MOS-01012 PROBLEM: './CROCLLNK -v -b 64' returned with '1' which is not a defined as a success code.

ERROR 2008-07-30 11:52:34

FJS-00012 Error when executing script.

I have checked the notes 874149. and other notes,

but still not successffull

please help.

Thanks for your help

[markus_doehr2]

> See './CROCLLNK -v -b 64' output in 'crocllnk.log'.

Please post the content of this logfile.

Markus

[Former Member]

'crocllnk.log'

/oracle/BP1/920_64/ocommon/nls/admin/data does not exist --- abort ...

crocllnk.log: END

thanks

[markus_doehr2]

It seems that your Oracle was not completely installed or you're missing the Oracle client.

Is that directory existent?

Markus

[Former Member]

WE still didn't install the oracle,

only this directory exists. /oracle/BP1/920_64/

do you want me to create the full directory

/oracle/BP1/920_64/ocommon/nls/admin/data

Thanks

[markus_doehr2]

You did not get requested to install the database?

Markus

[Former Member]

YEs i got saying to install oracle, so i have started installing oracle,

i have logged as ora<SID> and trying to set the env DISPLAY<HOST>:0:0 but all the time i get set env not found

HEre are the details

logged in ORA<SID>

.profile[35]: SHLIB_PATH: Parameter not set.

$ setenv DISPLAY <host>:0.0

su: setenv: not found.

thanks a lot.

[markus_doehr2]

You have quite a number of different problems on your box. Somehow the users don't have the correct home directories, your environment is not set correctly and other things. Your machine seems to be a bit "hosed"

It's very difficult to help you without system access. As you can see you get the first error when you login as ora<SID>, before this error is not corrected all further tries of continuing will be pointless.

First let's check the user ora<SID>:

try

grep ora<SID> /etc/passwd

check if the user was created and if the user has a valid home directory, write permissions for it and a valid shell.

Markus

[Former Member]

YES, they are there

ora<SID>:lBd4K25xv0mgs:3305:201:SAP Database Administrator:/home/ora<SID>:/usr/bin/sh

What should i do in the next step

[markus_doehr2]

Did you create them manually before the installation? Is the directory /home/ora<sid> existing and does it have the "dot-files" for the environment?

login as ora<SID>

ls -lisa

Markus

[Former Member]

The directory was created before installation and it has . . files.

login in ORA<SID>

Can i set the ORACLE_HOME

ORACLE_HOME=/oracle/SID/92_64

thanks

[markus_doehr2]

All variables are usually set by sapinst, there's no need to set them manually.

I saw you used "setenv" to set environments (DISPLAY) - that is for csh - but you use /usr/bin/sh. I'd try to change the default shell of ora<sid> to use /bin/csh, logout and login with that user and see if ORACLE_HOME is set. If not, then I would suggest to start from scratch because something went wrong during the installation...

Markus

[Former Member]

Yes,Now i tried to run

After logging to ORA<SID>

$ cd /oracle/stage/920_64/Disk1/SAP

su: /oracle/stage/920_64/Disk1/SAP: Permission denied.

permissions of /oracle is 775.

Sorry for troubling , ple help

[markus_doehr2]

Did you do

su - ora<sid>

or just

su ora<sid>

It's VERY important, that you use the first one, otherwise the new environment will not set. If you're logged in check first if the environment is set:

echo $ORACLE_HOME

echo $ORACLE_SID

Then try as root

cd /oracle/stage
chown -R ora<SID>:dba 920_64

Markus

[Former Member]

I did as su - ora<sid>

Logged in as ORASID

I have set ORACLE_HOME, and ORACLE_SID

chown -R ora<SID>:dba 920_64

But when i run again ./RUNSINSTALLER

i get environment variable ORACLE_SID not set.

[markus_doehr2]

Again (I repeat):

it is NOT necessary to set those environments manually - they are usually set by sapinst and the "dot-files" - that's why I asked you do to an

ls -lisa

in the home directory of ora<sid> to check if the files are there.

Markus

[Former Member]

YES the files are there in the home directory

16 drwxr-xr-x 2 ora<sid> dba 8192 Jul 30 13:04 .

2 0 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 96 Jul 25 08:47 ..

14 16 -rw-r-xr-x 1 ora<sid> dba 1674 Jul 30 11:15 .cshrc

11 16 -rw-r-xr-x 1 ora<sid> dba 3361 Jul 30 11:15 .dbenv_host.csh

10 16 -rw-r-xr-x 1 ora<sid> dba 3375 Jul 30 11:15 .dbenv_host.sh

33 16 -rw-r-xr-x 1 ora<sid> dba 175 Jul 25 09:52 .dbsrc_host.csh

32 16 -rw-r-xr-x 1 ora<sid> dba 158 Jul 25 09:52 .dbsrc_host.sh

17 16 -rrr-- 1 ora<sid> dba 347 Nov 14 2000 .exrc

15 16 -rw-r-xr-x 1 ora<sid> dba 1176 Jul 30 11:15 .login

16 16 -rw-r-xr-x 1 ora<sid> dba 1161 Jul 30 11:15 .profile

19 16 -rw-r-xr-x 1 ora<sid> dba 7381 Jul 30 11:15 .sapenv_host.csh

18 16 -rw-r-xr-x 1 ora<sid> dba 6904 Jul 30 11:15 .sapenv_host.sh

31 16 -rw-r-xr-x 1 ora<sid> dba 667 Jul 25 09:52 .sapsrc_host.csh

30 16 -rw-r-xr-x 1 ora<sid> dba 564 Jul 25 09:52 .sapsrc_host.sh

34 16 -rw------- 1 ora<sid> dba 2958 Jul 30 16:22 .sh_history

I have also checked the file dbenv and could see the ORACLE_SID.

But i don't understand why it is not taking into account when running the ./RUNINSTALLER.

[markus_doehr2]

it says that oracle_home (lower case) is not set - which is right.

Markus

[Former Member]

Hi,

This is what it says

$ ./RUNINSTALLER

Working in /oracle/stage/920_64/Disk1/SAP ...

The environment variable ORACLE_HOME is not set! abort ...

$

[markus_doehr2]

It seems, that the dot-files are not taken into account... are you running a high security system? Usually - at that point of installation and after logging in the prompt for the csh looks like

<hostname:user>

and not just

$

Something is wrong with your environment but manually setting it won't solve the problem. I'd check with your sysadmin why the dot-files are not executed during login.

Markus

[Former Member]

Hi,

After checking with the adminsitrator i was able to run ./RUNINSTALLER, but now again iget another errror

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to X11 window server using '10.1.70.75:0.0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable.

at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.initDisplay(Native Method)

at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.<clinit>(X11GraphicsEnvironment.java:63)

at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)

at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)

at java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment(GraphicsEnvironment.java:58)

at java.awt.Window.<init>(Window.java:188)

at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:315)

at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:294)

at oracle.ewt.popup.PopupFrame.<init>(Unknown Source)

at oracle.ewt.lwAWT.BufferedFrame.<init>(Unknown Source)

at oracle.sysman.oii.oiif.oiifm.OiifmMainFrame.<init>(OiifmMainFrame.java:296)

at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicInstaller.<init>(OiicInstaller.java:231)

at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicInstaller.main(OiicInstaller.java:599)

Thanks a lot

[markus_doehr2]

If you did "su -" you need to open a second terminal as user root (or the user you initially logged on) and enter

xhost +

Markus

[Former Member]

I gave the ip of the server i am installing,once i gave the ip address of my machine , the oracle screen has come up.

thanks for your reply.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Oracle is successfully installed. Regd the patchset , what is the correct patch set i should install, there are several notes, i went through all of them , i am confused.pl help. the oracle version installed is 9.2, should i install 9.2.0.6 or 9.2.0.7, do i need to do any parameter changes for the oracle before installing the path.I am just worried if in case correct patch is not installed i am again land up with the performance problems.

I need your advice and suggestion. pl help

thanks.

[markus_doehr2]

It's suggested to install the LATEST patchset available + the LATEST patches for that patchset.

Check the central note 938986 - Oracle Database 9.2: Patches for 9.2.0

I would suggest you install 9.2.0.8 + all the 22 patches listed in the above note.

BTW: Oracle 9.2 runs TODAY out of standard maintenance...

Markus

[Former Member]

Thanks for the suggestion,

As per your suggestion i am installing 9.2.0.8+patches.

When i went to service .sap.com , i could see 16patchset not 22 patchs set level.

As this are in zip files , can i unzip in the windows and copy the files in the unix at the oracle directory and install the ORacle 9.2.0.8 and the 16 patches.

Please correct me if i am wrong.

Thanks for your help.

[markus_doehr2 · Accepted solution]

> As per your suggestion i am installing 9.2.0.8+patches.

> When i went to service .sap.com , i could see 16patchset not 22 patchs set level.

yes - the other 6 are "Generic" patches (read the note!!) - they are in the "generic" patch directory.

> As this are in zip files , can i unzip in the windows and copy the files in the unix at the oracle directory and install the ORacle 9.2.0.8 and the 16 patches.

Note 306408 - OPatch: Oracle tool for patch installation describes how you need to install those.

Markus

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi MArkus,

I am facing lot of troubles in installing the patches,

I have downloaded the patches and used the cat command to combine the aa.bin and ab.bin file. To unzip as i could n't find the unzip command at the unix level i have copied the file on the my PC and unzipped and put it back on the unix system.

now i have run ./runInstaller,it says permission denied

this is the error message.

./runInstaller[37]: /oracle/stage/9208/Disk1/runInstaller: Execute permission denied.

I have checked the permission and changed to 777 and 775 and also changed the chown to ora<SID> :dba .

but still the same problem.

Please help me.

thanks

[markus_doehr2]

> now i have run ./runInstaller,it says permission denied

> this is the error message.

> ./runInstaller[37]: /oracle/stage/9208/Disk1/runInstaller: Execute permission denied.

> I have checked the permission and changed to 777 and 775 and also changed the chown to ora<SID> :dba .

Please post the output of

ls -l  /oracle/stage/9208/Disk1/runInstaller

Markus

[Former Member]

Here are the details:-

#!/usr/bin/sh

1. The environment variable $SRCHOME cannot be set during the installation

unset SRCHOME

CMDDIR=`dirname $0`

if [ "$CMDDIR" = "." ]; then

CMDDIR=`pwd`;

fi

1. Replace relative path with fully qualified path.

if [ ! "`echo $CMDDIR|grep '^/'`" ]; then

CMDDIR=`pwd`/$CMDDIR;

fi

if [ x$ != x ]; then

PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:$PATH:$CMDDIR/install

export PATH

else

PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:$CMDDIR/install

export PATH

fi

if [ x$ != x ]; then

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

else

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

fi

1. One-click: only if there is no cmd line argument and it's not on CRS node

if [ $# -gt 0 -o -r /var/opt/oracle/ocr.loc -o \

! -r $CMDDIR/install/oneclick.properties ]; then

$CMDDIR/install/runInstaller -DTRACING.ENABLED=TRUE -DTRACING.LEVEL=2 $*

else

$CMDDIR/install/runInstaller -oneclick

fi

~

~

~

~

~

"runInstaller" 40 lines, 952 characters

[markus_doehr2]

I wanted to see an "ls -l" output - not the content of the file

Markus

[Former Member]

sorry for that

-rwxrwxr-x 1 ora<SID> dba 952 Aug 3 14:09 runInstaller

thanks

[markus_doehr2]

Please post what happens when you execute sapinst.

Markus