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Issue when running etc init.d oracle-free-26ai configure

bouthib72aJun 28 2026 — edited 2 days ago

Hello,

I am attempting a silent installation of Oracle AI Database Free on Oracle Linux 9 using the following RPM:
https://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/otn_software/db-free/oracle-ai-database-free-26ai-23.26.2-1.el9.x86_64.rpm

The installation via yum completes successfully. However, when running:

/etc/init.d/oracle-free-26ai configure

I encounter errors such as:

/bin/mkdir: missing operand
Try '/bin/mkdir --help' for more information.
chmod: cannot access '/opt/oracle/cfgtoollogs/netca/netca_configure_out.log': No such file or directory
...

I was able to complete the installation by modifying the script, but I am unsure whether this is the correct approach, as I would expect this issue to already be resolved by Oracle.

Has anyone else experienced this issue?

For reference, here are the changes I applied (though I am not confident they are appropriate):

sed -i 's;/bin/bash -c $1;/bin/bash -c "$1";g' /etc/init.d/oracle-free-26ai
sed -i 's;$SU -s /bin/bash $ORACLE_OWNER -c $1;$SU -s /bin/bash $ORACLE_OWNER -c "$1";g' /etc/init.d/oracle-free-26ai
sed -i 's;-c $DBCA_CLI;-c "$DBCA_CLI";g' /etc/init.d/oracle-free-26ai

Regards,

Benoit

MOD note: Benoit, the forum has issues when the title contains “/”, they have been removed waiting a fix…

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