Thursday 26 September 2019

SEVERE: [FATAL] [INS-10102] Installer initialization failed.



Getting below error while installing EBS R12.2.0 in Linux server.


Click on warning button to see the error.


Installer logs having below error message. We can find error logs in inventory location. In my case "/u01/app/oraInventory/logs". 

Error 1:
SEVERE: [FATAL] [INS-10102] Installer initialization failed.
   CAUSE: An unexpected error occured while initializing the Installer.
   ACTION: Contact Oracle Support Services or refer logs
   SUMMARY:
       - [INS-21003] Installer has detected that an invalid inventory pointer location file was specified..
Refer associated stacktrace #oracle.install.commons.util.exception.DefaultErrorAdvisor:37
INFO: Advice is ABORT
SEVERE: Unconditional Exit
INFO: Adding ExitStatus FAILURE to the exit status set
INFO: Finding the most appropriate exit status for the current application
INFO: Exit Status is -1
INFO: Shutdown Oracle Database 12c Release 1 Installer
[root@ebsdb logs]# 

Error 2:

Found below error in "/tmp/OraInstall2019-09-26_02-55-57PM/oraInstall2019-09-26_02-55-57PM.err"

---# Begin Stacktrace #---------------------------
ID: oracle.install.commons.util.exception.DefaultErrorAdvisor:37
oracle.install.commons.base.driver.common.InstallerException: [INS-10102] Installer initialization failed.
        at oracle.install.commons.base.driver.common.Installer.run(Installer.java:324)
        at oracle.install.ivw.common.util.OracleInstaller.run(OracleInstaller.java:106)
        at oracle.install.ivw.db.driver.DBInstaller.run(DBInstaller.java:142)
        at oracle.install.commons.util.Application.startup(Application.java:921)
        at oracle.install.commons.flow.FlowApplication.startup(FlowApplication.java:181)
        at oracle.install.commons.flow.FlowApplication.startup(FlowApplication.java:198)
        at oracle.install.commons.base.driver.common.Installer.startup(Installer.java:355)
        at oracle.install.ivw.db.driver.DBInstaller.startup(DBInstaller.java:130)
        at oracle.install.ivw.db.driver.DBInstaller.main(DBInstaller.java:161)
Caused by: oracle.install.commons.base.driver.common.SetupDriverException: [INS-21003] Installer has detected that an invalid inventory pointer location file was specified.
        at oracle.install.driver.oui.OUIInstallDriver.load(OUIInstallDriver.java:393)
        at oracle.install.ivw.db.driver.DBSetupDriver.load(DBSetupDriver.java:225)
        at oracle.install.commons.base.driver.common.Installer.run(Installer.java:306)
        ... 8 more

---# End Stacktrace #-----------------------------


We will get below error if we ignore this error and proceed with the installation.



Solution:

Error is with some permissions and found group details are not present in "/etc/oraInst.loc".

[root@ebsdb logs]# cat /etc/oraInst.loc
inventory_loc=/u01/app/oraInventory
[root@ebsdb logs]#

Added group details and after adding "/etc/oraInst.loc" file looks like below.

[root@ebsdb logs]# cat /etc/oraInst.loc
inventory_loc=/u01/app/oraInventory
inst_group=dba
[root@ebsdb logs]#






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