I am using a script which installs Oracle DB12 SR1 (12.1.0.2.0) SE2 for me silently on my VBox VMS (oracle linux 6u8).
This has been working fine for a long period of time, but suddenly stopped working properly.
And yes, as you might expect i state that i have not changed the script between the previously successful run and now :-)
The full installation script can be found on my github repository here; install
When the actual silent installation process starts i do get the the expected output;
sudo -u $SUDO_USER -s database/runInstaller -waitforcompletion -silent -responsefile /tmp/${INSTRSP}
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
Checking Temp space: must be greater than 500 MB. Actual 53890 MB Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB. Actual 16383 MB Passed
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2016-10-12_10-00-01PM. Please wait ...[WARNING] - My Oracle Support Username/Email Address Not Specified
A log of this session is currently saved as: /tmp/OraInstall2016-10-12_10-00-01PM/installActions2016-10-12_10-00-01PM.log. Oracle recommends that if you want to keep this log, you should move it from the temporary location.
Only the installation is completed after a few seconds and nothing is logged to the file /tmp/OraInstall2016-10-12_10-00-01PM/installActions2016-10-12_10-00-01PM.log.
When running the installer in debug mode there are no anomalies in the output.
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Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /tmp/OraInstall2016-10-12_10-08-03PM/jdk/jre/bin/java. Please wait...
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.862 CEST ] [ClusterVerification.getInstance:426] Method Entry. workDir=/tmp frameworkHome=/tmp/dbinstall/database/install/../stage/cvu
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.867 CEST ] [ParamManager.<init>:668] m_paramInstantiated set to TRUE
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.868 CEST ] [VerificationUtil.getLocalHost:1312] Hostname retrieved: vm0015.localdomain, returned: vm0015
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.869 CEST ] [VerificationUtil.getDestLoc:3712] ==== CV_DESTLOC(pre-fetched value): '/tmp/'
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.869 CEST ] [VerificationUtil.getExecutionEnvironment:7586] RDBMS Version is -->12.1.0.2.0
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.869 CEST ] [VerificationUtil.validateCmdLineExecEnvironment:7602] Entered validateCmdLineExecEnvironment
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.887 CEST ] [Version.isPre:610] version to be checked 12.1.0.2.0 major version to check against 10
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.888 CEST ] [Version.isPre:621] isPre.java: Returning FALSE
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.888 CEST ] [Version.isPre:610] version to be checked 12.1.0.2.0 major version to check against 10
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.888 CEST ] [Version.isPre:621] isPre.java: Returning FALSE
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.889 CEST ] [Version.isPre:610] version to be checked 12.1.0.2.0 major version to check against 11
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.889 CEST ] [Version.isPre:621] isPre.java: Returning FALSE
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.889 CEST ] [Version.isPre:642] version to be checked 12.1.0.2.0 major version to check against 11 minor version to check against 2
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.889 CEST ] [Version.isPre:651] isPre: Returning FALSE for major version check
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.893 CEST ] [UnixSystem.isHAConfigured:2788] olrFileName = /etc/oracle/olr.loc
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.894 CEST ] [VerificationUtil.isHAConfigured:4181] haConfigured=false
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.894 CEST ] [VerificationUtil.validateCmdLineExecEnvironment:7639] Exit validateCmdLineExecEnvironment
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.898 CEST ] [ConfigUtil.importConfig:97] ==== CVU config file: /tmp/dbinstall/database/install/../stage/cvu//cv/admin/cvu_config
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.898 CEST ] [ConfigUtil.importConfig:114] ==== Picked up config variable: cv_raw_check_enabled : TRUE
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.899 CEST ] [ConfigUtil.importConfig:114] ==== Picked up config variable: cv_sudo_binary_location : /usr/local/bin/sudo
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.899 CEST ] [ConfigUtil.importConfig:114] ==== Picked up config variable: cv_pbrun_binary_location : /usr/local/bin/pbrun
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.899 CEST ] [ConfigUtil.importConfig:114] ==== Picked up config variable: cv_assume_cl_version : 12.1
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.900 CEST ] [ConfigUtil.isDefined:200] ==== Is ORACLE_SRVM_REMOTESHELL defined? : false
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.901 CEST ] [Library.load:194] library.load
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.901 CEST ] [sPlatform.isHybrid:66] osName=Linux osArch=amd64 JVM=64 rc=false
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.902 CEST ] [Library.load:262] Property oracle.installer.library_loc is set to value=/tmp/OraInstall2016-10-12_10-08-03PM/oui/lib/linux64
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.902 CEST ] [Library.load:264] Loading library /tmp/OraInstall2016-10-12_10-08-03PM/oui/lib/linux64/libsrvm12.so
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.903 CEST ] [ConfigUtil.getConfiguredValue:182] ==== Fallback to env var 'ORACLE_SRVM_REMOTESHELL'=null
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.903 CEST ] [ConfigUtil.isDefined:200] ==== Is ORACLE_SRVM_REMOTECOPY defined? : false
[main] [ 2016-10-12 22:08:06.903 CEST ] [ConfigUtil.getConfiguredValue:182] ==== Fallback to env var 'ORACLE_SRVM_REMOTECOPY'=null
[WARNING] - My Oracle Support Username/Email Address Not Specified
[OiixOCMValidation.setRepeaterFromAgentHome] Number of RepeaterEndPoints=0
A log of this session is currently saved as: /tmp/OraInstall2016-10-12_10-08-03PM/installActions2016-10-12_10-08-03PM.log. Oracle recommends that if you want to keep this log, you should move it from the temporary location.
Any idea why the installer will not start ?
-- update 1 --
When running the same installation script after removing the '-silent' argument the installation completes successfully. The steps through the wizard have been successfully filled in from the responsefile, so i only have to click next several times to complete the installation.