Re: Make file errors during Oracle8i install on Solaris

"SG" <sajnish_gupta_at_yahoo.com> wrote in
<3aaeb84e$0$15146_at_wodc7nh6.news.uu.net>:

>Hello,
>I am unable to install Oracle8.1.5 on the Sun Solaris Server due to the
>following errors:
>Calling action unixActions1.6.0.6.0 make
> installMakePath = /usr/ccs/bin/make
> installMakeFileName =
>/u01/oracle/product/8.1.5/network/lib/ins_net_client.mk
> installTarget = mkldflags
> installArguments = ORACLE_HOME=/u01/oracle/product/8.1.5,
> undoMakeFileName = null
> undoTarget = null
> undoArguments = null
> logFile = /u01/oracle/product/8.1.5/install/make.log
>
>Exception thrown from action: make
>Exception Name: MakefileException
>Exception String: Error in invoking target mkldflags of makefile
>/u01/oracle/product/8.1.5/network/lib/ins_net_client.mk
>Exception Severity: 1
>*** Cancel Dialog: ***
>User selected: Stop installation of this component only.
>
>When I do a manual check I can see the file
>/u01/oracle/product/8.1.5/network/lib/ins_net_client.mk in the
>directory. Not sure, why Oracle does not recognize it.

We had this very same error last week when installing 8.1.7 on Solaris 8. After an hour of searching we found that it was caused by the mount point /u01 not be owned by oracle.

ie:

$ ls -la /
...
drwxr-xr-x 4 root other 512 Mar 7 09:40 u01 ...

It should have been:

$ ls -la /
...
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle dba 512 Mar 7 09:40 u01 ...

This was strange because the directory 'oracle' directly below '/u01' was owned by oracle.

Kev. Received on Tue Mar 13 2001 - 20:31:45 CST