Saturday 27 April 2013

Oracle Application Testing Suite 12.2.0.1.288 install errors oxe silent install

Oats install problems.

I'm struggling to install OATs on a virtual (version 12.2.0.1.288).  I'm just installing the works burger for demo purposes and OXE is having errors installing.

setup.log contains the following

[ResponseResult]
ResultCode=-3

I can see that it's running the following command:
E:\OATSIN~1\\oxe\OracleXEUniv.exe /s /f1E:\OATSIN~1\\oxe\oxe_install.iss /f2F:\OracleATS\logs\oxe_install.log

from C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory\logs\installActions2013-04-26_05-00-52PM.log

There is 
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: : XML-20108: (Fatal Error) Start of root element expected.

in the .err file

but this might / might not be relevant at this stage.

But, there are more logs in c:\windows in OracleDatabaseXEServerInstall.log

MSI (c) (50:B0) [07:00:45:983]: Attempting to enable all disabled priveleges before calling Install on Server
MSI (c) (50:B0) [07:00:45:983]: Connected to service.
MSI (c) (50:B0) [07:00:45:983]: MsiSourceListAddSource is returning: 0
1: User aborts the installation, ready to launch __OnAbort.
MSI (c) (50:B0) [07:00:45:983]: Destroying RemoteAPI object.
MSI (c) (50:7C) [07:00:45:983]: Custom Action Manager thread ending.

I then did the following, sorry this is not very scientific - but it worked.  I believe that the critical item may have been #3 below
  • deleted temp files (C:\Documents and Settings\Myriad\Local Settings\Temp\)
  • deleted installsheild files (C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information) 
  • changed the install-from dir, because I wanted to get rid of the longdirName ~ stuff that in the installation command line.  It was c:\OATSInstall, I made it c:\OATs
  • deleted c:\program files\oracle
  • cleaned registry (program files->oracle key)
  • deleted destination dir (F:\OracleATS)
This was a very frustrating OATS install, I hope this helps you!

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