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I'm working in an environment where no X-Windows/GUI is permitted; therefore, I'm attempting to perform a -silent install of 11g R2 on RHEL 5.3 and am finding the screen output to my terminal window less than helpful. Fortunately, a thorough review of the install actions log provides what appears to be my problem.

The screen output I receive is as follows (I've added some line breaks to make it more readable):

(oracle@blade2-1 database)$ cd /opt/oracleStagingArea/Oracle11gR2/11.2.0.1.0/Disk1/database
(oracle@blade2-1 database)$ ./runInstaller -silent -responseFile /home/oracle/ResponseFiles/11gR2/ORCL11GD_enterprise_11201.rsp

Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

Checking Temp space: must be greater than 80 MB. Actual 91127 MB Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB. Actual 8000 MB Passed

Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2009-09-14_01-25-28PM. Please wait ...

(oracle@blade2-1 database)$

You can find the log of this install session at:
/u01/app/oracle/oraInventory/logs/installActions2009-09-14_01-25-28PM.log

That's it - no indication as to whether the installation was successful or failed or whether the NETCA/DBCA/etc. were successful or not.

I found that a listener existed after the install:
(oracle@blade2-1 database)$ ps -ef | grep tns
oracle 22597 1 0 13:29 ? 00:00:00 /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/bin/tnslsnr LISTENER -inherit

My instance didn't appear to be up, though:
(oracle@blade2-1 database)$ ps -ef | grep ORCL11GD
oracle 22776 19142 0 13:39 pts/0 00:00:00 grep ORCL11GD

So, I checked the /u01/app/oracle/oraInventory/logs/installActions2009-09-14_01-25-28PM.log to see what it revealed. It shows me the following for the DBCA:

INFO: Started Plugin named: Oracle Database Configuration Assistant
INFO: Found associated job
INFO: Starting 'Oracle Database Configuration Assistant'
INFO: Starting 'Oracle Database Configuration Assistant'
INFO: Executing DBCA
INFO: Command /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/bin/dbca -silent -createDatabase -templateName General_Purpose.dbc -sid ORCL11GD -gdbName orcl11gd.blade2-1.mycompany.com -emConfiguration LOCAL -storageType FS -datafileDestination /u02/oradata -datafileJarLocation /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/assistants/dbca/templates -responseFile /home/oracle/ResponseFiles/11gR2/ORCL11GD_enterprise_11201.rsp -characterset WE8ISO8859P15 -obfuscatedPasswords false -sampleSchema false -oratabLocation /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/install/oratab -automaticMemoryManagement true -totalMemory 2048 -maskPasswords false -oui_internal
INFO: ... GenericInternalPlugIn.handleProcess() entered.
INFO: ... GenericInternalPlugIn: getting configAssistantParmas.
INFO: ... GenericInternalPlugIn: checking secretArguments.
INFO: ... GenericInternalPlugIn: starting read loop.
INFO: Read: SYS_PASSWORD_PROMPT
INFO: Processing: SYS_PASSWORD_PROMPT for argument tag -sysPassword
INFO: Read: SYSTEM_PASSWORD_PROMPT
INFO: Processing: SYSTEM_PASSWORD_PROMPT for argument tag -systemPassword
INFO: Read: DBSNMP_PASSWORD_PROMPT
INFO: Processing: DBSNMP_PASSWORD_PROMPT for argument tag -dbsnmpPassword
INFO: Read: SYSMAN_PASSWORD_PROMPT
INFO: Processing: SYSMAN_PASSWORD_PROMPT for argument tag -sysmanPassword
INFO: End of argument passing to stdin
INFO: Read: Template General_Purpose.dbc does not exist. Please specify an existing template for database creation.
INFO: Completed Plugin named: Oracle Database Configuration Assistant
INFO: Oracle Database Configuration Assistant failed.
INFO: Oracle Database Configuration Assistant failed.

I don't see a template named "General_Purpose.dbc" in the $ORACLE_HOME/dbca/templates directory:

(oracle@blade2-1 database)$ cd /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/assistants/dbca/templates
(oracle@blade2-1 database)$ ls -lrt
total 23216
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 11492 Feb 25 2009 New_Database.dbt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 1179648 Aug 14 03:01 example.dmp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 22536192 Aug 14 03:01 example01.dfb

Any suggestions would be welcomed!