Installer still exited after the finish

do users:groups and homes need to be created first before running the
installation ???

On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 11:00, Corey Erickson wrote:

> ok so after I sent this email I decided I would run the db2setup gui
> again after I ran the db2_install from the cli
>
> it has given the option to create the instance users groups catalog the
> toolsdb etc.
>
> now it is asking for the informix slient installation directory and
> informix server.
>
> what information is needed there
>
> Thanks in Advance
> On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 10:38, Corey Erickson wrote:
>
> > Hello all
> >
> > I am trying to install v8.1 on united linux 1.0 the gui installer seems
> > to run fine but exits at the finish button with no exit error messages
> > or anything of the sort in the logs
> >
> > I tried using db2setup -d which loaded the gui fine but same thing
> > exited after pressing the finish button.
> >
> > if I run from shell db2_install it exits normally saying installation
> > was successful
> >
> > but of course nothing was configured such as users and such
> >
> > so I am figuring that I should be able to add the users and groups
> > create an instance from cli
> >
> > I did do this on a prior test install and it worked ok except the tools
> > catalog was did not exist and I was sure how to create it.
> >
> > I also started db2admin start as root and was unable to shut it down
> >
> > but the dasusr1 or any other user on the system could not start it
> >
> > I eventually killed everything uninstalled db2 entirely and am trying to
> > do it properly via the gui but it just exits after pressing finish.
> >
> > The log files I am finding to be created are in /tmp
> > /tmp/db2_install_log.6282
> > /tmp/db2_install_log.6339
> > /tmp/db2setup.err
> > /tmp/db2setup.his
> > /tmp/db2setup.log
> > /tmp/db2setup.trc.gui
> > /tmp/db2setup.trc.ure
> >
> > Is there a way to create an answer file so that when running install
> > from cli the users instances tools catalog etc. will be created
> >
> > Thanks Corey
> >
> >
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