Re: Error in writing to directory /tmp/OraInstall2007

I had this on HP-UX today. There it was due to an older version of unzip being used. You should hit Metalink and search for this as there are a variety of causes.

Allan

On 10/10/07, Sam Bootsma <sbootsma_at_georgebrown.ca> wrote:
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> Hello All,
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> I successfully start a VNC session on our Unix box. Then I run the
> installer, and it returns the message below. There is about 800MB free
> space in /tmp and I have confirmed the /tmp directory is writable by user
> oracle. This used to work. My colleague upgraded from 10.2.0.2 to
> 10.2.0.3 recently, and I wonder if this is part of the reason we now
> encounter this problem. Our OS is AIX 5.3. Running the installer does
> create directory OraInstall2007-10-10_10-38-29AM. This directory contains
> an installActions log file and also a sub-directory named jre. Jre contains
> a directory lib, which contains a bunch of files (mostly font.properties).
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> Can anybody provide advice on what the problem may be? This is what I get
> when I run the installer from /tmp:
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> $ /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2/oui/bin/runInstaller -debug
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> Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
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> No pre-requisite checks found in oraparam.ini, no system pre-requisite
> checks will be executed.
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> Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from
> /tmp/OraInstall2007-10-10_10-38-29AM. Please wait ...
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> Error in writing to directory /tmp/OraInstall2007-10-10_10-38-29AM. Please
> ensure that this directory is writable and has atleast 69 MB of disk space.
> Installation cannot continue.
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> : A file descriptor does not refer to an open file.
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> Thanks for any suggestions.
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> *Sam Bootsma*
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