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Oracle 11g R2 installation hangs during pre-requisites phase at hard limit:

921549Mar 3 2012 — edited Jul 11 2012
Hi,

I'm trying to install oracle 11g R2 (11.2.0.2) on solaris 5.10 (sparc).

I've configured all the prerequisites properly and started the installation of oracle 11.2.0.2 with default settings. But the installation is hanging during pre-requisites phase and stopped responding. It hung at "checking hard limit: maximum open file descriptors". That is when the installer stopped responding (or hung) during the pre-requisite phase, the status was showing that "checking hard limit: maximum open file descriptors".

Before launching the installer, I've configured shell limits using ulimit as described in the documentation but not sure what is causing the installer to stop responding. Had it thrown an error instead of stopping responding, it would have been at least helpful.

I'm new to oracle installation so i might miss something.

Could someone please help

Thanks,
Sreedhar.

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sb92075
918546 wrote:
Hi,

I'm trying to install oracle 11g R2 (11.2.0.2) on solaris 5.10 (sparc).

I've configured all the prerequisites properly and started the installation of oracle 11.2.0.2 with default settings. But the installation is hanging during pre-requisites phase and stopped responding. It hung at "checking hard limit: maximum open file descriptors". That is when the installer stopped responding (or hung) during the pre-requisite phase, the status was showing that "checking hard limit: maximum open file descriptors".

Before launching the installer, I've configured shell limits using ulimit as described in the documentation but not sure what is causing the installer to stop responding. Had it thrown an error instead of stopping responding, it would have been at least helpful.

I'm new to oracle installation so i might miss something.

Could someone please help

Thanks,
Sreedhar.
Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) creates an install log file.
clues about any problem will be contained in it & near the bottom of this file.
post excerpt from the log file something the errors back here
Possible solution in MOS Doc 1346093.1 (Installer hangs at 38% of the prerequisite checks(Checking Hard Limit: maximum open file descriptors ...)

HTH
Srini
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921549
This is what i found at the tail of install log created on closing 11g r2 installer which till then paused (or stopped responding..), but i couldn't make out anything
----------------
Pause Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Installer
INFO: Resume Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Installer
INFO: Pause Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Installer
INFO: Resume Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Installer
INFO: Finding the most appropriate exit status for the current application
INFO: Exit Status is -2
INFO: Shutdown Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Installer
INFO: Unloading Setup Driver
--------------
921549
Hi Srini,

Thanks for replying.

Could you please give more details..i mean can you please provide a link to "MOS Doc 1346093.1 (Installer hangs at 38% of the prerequisite checks(Checking Hard Limit: maximum open file descriptors ...)
"

Thanks,
Sreedhar.
Srini Chavali-Oracle
This is a document available on Oracle's Support site (https://support.oracle.com), access to which requires a paid support contract with Oracle.

If you do not have access, pl see the project setting related to "process.max-file-descriptor" in this blog - http://www.dbatoolz.com/t/11gr2-install-fails-hard-limit-maximum-user-processes.html

HTH
Srini
921549
Though I've made the all the changes suggested in the blog, the installer is still hanging at 43% with the "checking hard limit: maximum open descriptors".

The worst part here is that the installer is not throwing any error it just hangs there..
Pl post output of "env | sort" command just before runInstaller is invoked.

HTH
Srini
921549
env|sort output
--------
DISPLAY=<Some_IP_Address>:0.0
HOME=/oracle/home/oracle
HZ=100
LOGNAME=oracle
MAIL=/usr/mail/oracle
OLDPWD=/oracle/home/oracle
ORACLE_BASE=/oracle/home/oracle
ORACLE_HOME=/oracle/home/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1
ORACLE_SID=orcl
PATH=/oracle/home/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/bin:/oracle/home/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/bin:/usr/bin:
PWD=/oracle1/oracle11g_2_02/patch/database
SHELL=/usr/bin/bash
SHLVL=4
TERM=xterm
TZ=Asia/Calcutta
WINDOWID=2097165
_=/usr/bin/env
-------------------

Thanks,
Sreedhar.
921549
Got access to "MOS Doc 1346093.1" on oracle support, started the installation using "./runInstaller ––ignorePrereq " which bypassed the pre-requisite phase and the installation went fine.

The installer hanging at prerequisite phase could be an issue with the product

Thanks for your support.
Sreedhar.
yamini saini
Thanks, it helped
Osama_Mustafa
if its helps why you still open this thread please mark it as an answered .
Asad -Oracle
If you are using a bash shell you can find the value of Max users hard limit with
ulimit -a

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