-----Original Message-----
From: Barry
[mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x31152364.[Email address protected]
Sent: 30 September 2004 09:12
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: Re: Unrecognised Products.xml durning installation of Universal
Installer for Oracle 9i Release 2




This is a bug in the 9.2.0.5 patchset (Bug 3560961 "$OH/bin/runInstaller"
link is not updated when 9.2.0.5 is installed"). When you install the 10g
installer the symbollic link "$ORACLE_HOME/bin/runInstaller" is NOT updated
to point to the new 10g installer location and so invoking "runInstaller"
on the 9.2.0.5 ORACLE_HOME results in the old installer (2.2) being run
instead of the new installer.

The workaraound for this bug is: -

cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin
ln -s $ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin/runInstaller.sh runInstaller

Regards,
Barry



Barry Scott

M&G Technical Services

Tel: 020 7548 3110

eMail: barry.[Email address protected]







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Hello Zuoke, I have also experienced this exact problem with 9.2.0.5 on
Linux. First I installed the installer from the patchset. Then I tried
to apply the patch with the newly installed installer from ORACLE_HOME.
Got the same error. I then applyed the patch set with the Original
Installer from the unzipped patchset, not the one that was newly
installed in Oracle Home. The Installer when run from the patch set,
recognizes the products.xml.

Kathleen
Oracle DBA
NOAA Fisheries

Zuoke Acha wrote:

>Hello DBAs,
>
>I have downloaded the latest patchset for Oracle 9i R2 (9.2.0.5.0)
>And while trying to runInstaller from uncompressed patchset to install
>the latest Universal Installer 10.1.0.2 before going ahead with the
>patching.
>The oracle installer does not recognize the products.xml as a valid one
>(or possibly a corupt one)
>Have tried re-downloading the patch uncompressing the archive and
>starting again - all to no avail. Any ideas ?
>
>O/s: Solaris 5.8 (64 bit)
>DB: 9.2.0.1.0
>
>Thanks
>Zuoke
>
>
Hi,
I have just copied a database & oracle SW from 1 solaris box to another &
when I try and start the copy database I get the above error - Anyone any
ideas ?

Cheers

Dan

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