Hello all,

I am installing oracle 11g on Oracle enterprise Linux 5 i applied all the steps in doc
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/...riseLinux5.php

when trying to switch user to user oracle i am facing the below

[root@oel5 ~]# su - oracle
su: warning: cannot change directory to /home/oracle: Permission denied
-bash: /home/oracle/.bash_profile: Permission denied

your help please

Hi,

Looks like oracle's home directory and/or files are not owned by oracle (and/or group oinstall). Did something go wrong with this part of the instructions?
Take a look at the output of: ls -lad /home/oracle/{.*,*} All files and directories should be owned by oracle and have oinstall as group.

If that is not the case you need to change the ownership (as root): chown -R oracle:oinstall /home/oracle

Hope this helps

below is the result of the command

drwxrwxr-x 3 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 8 11:25 /home/oracle/.
drw-r--r-- 3 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 8 11:19 /home/oracle/..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 oracle oinstall 33 Nov 8 11:19 /home/oracle/.bash_logout
-rwxrwxr-x 1 oracle oinstall 794 Nov 8 11:25 /home/oracle/.bash_profile
-rwxrwxr-x 1 oracle oinstall 859 Nov 8 11:21 /home/oracle/.bash_profile~
-rwxrwxr-x 1 oracle oinstall 124 Nov 8 11:19 /home/oracle/.bashrc
-rwxrwxr-x 1 oracle oinstall 515 Nov 8 11:19 /home/oracle/.emacs
drwxrwxr-x 4 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 8 11:19 /home/oracle/.mozilla



still the same error

Hi,

This looks wrong: drw-r--r-- 3 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 8 11:19 /home/oracle/..

That should be drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 8 11:19 /home/oracle/..

/home should be owned by root and have drwxr-xr-x
/home/oracle should have drwxr-xr-x and be owned by oracle (group: oinstall)

As root do:The permissions of the files and directory inside /home/oracle also look incorrect. In general files should have -rw-r--r-- (644) and directories drwxr-xr-x (755)

As root do:Hope this helps.

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The below command will work

thx it is solved now

Hi,

Nice it is solved.

Can you put the Solved tag on this thread (it is an option in the Thread Tools pull down menu)?

one more thing.
i have the below
[oracle@oel5 V17489-01]$ ./runInstaller
bash: ./runInstaller: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied


where is V17489-01 is the link of the CD/DVD drive of my VMware to an ISO oracle file.
I am not able to run the installation.

Moreover i copied the content of V17489-01 to a Database folder on the oracle user Desktop but still i am facing the below:

[oracle@oel5 Database]$ ls
doc install response rpm runInstaller sshsetup stage welcome.html
[oracle@oel5 Database]$ ./runInstaller
bash: ./runInstaller: Permission denied

Hi,

If you run it from the cd (as user oracle): sh runInstaller

Or, but you cannot do this on the cd: chmod 755 runInstaller, then run execute it: ./runInstaller

Hope this helps.

below what i got after issuing chmod 755 runInstaller

[oracle@oel5 Database]$ chmod 755 runInstaller
[oracle@oel5 Database]$ ls
doc install ISO response rpm runInstaller sshsetup stage welcome.html
[oracle@oel5 Database]$ ./runInstaller
./runInstaller: line 137: /home/oracle/Desktop/Database/install/.oui: Permission denied

Hi,

There is something seriously wrong with all of the permissions of the files and directories you copied.......

Can't you run the installer from the cd? (sh runInstaller).

If not, maybe this will help (as root): BTW: You keep posting the output with ls, which does not show any relevant information. Next time post the output of ls -l

Hope this helps.

No i cannot run it from CD since i only have an ISO for the ORACLE Installer

below is the result it did not work after the exec chown

[root@oel5 ~]# cd /home/oracle/Desktop/
[root@oel5 Desktop]# find . -exec chown oracleinstall {} \;
[root@oel5 Desktop]# cd Database
[root@oel5 Database]# ls
doc install ISO response rpm runInstaller sshsetup stage welcome.html
[root@oel5 Database]# ./runInstaller
./runInstaller: line 137: /home/oracle/Desktop/Database/install/.oui: Permission denied
[root@oel5 Database]# ll
total 44
drwxr-xr-x 12 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 17 2009 doc
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 14 2009 install
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 8 15:34 ISO
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 14 2009 response
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 14 2009 rpm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4352 Aug 14 2009 runInstaller
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 14 2009 sshsetup
drwxr-xr-x 14 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 14 2009 stage
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 5400 Aug 17 2009 welcome.html

Hi,

Burn the ISO to a cd?

As stated in the install doc you mention in your first post, this should be run as user oracle, _not_ root.

You do not mention if it does work with the sh runInstaller statement i've mentioned multiple times.

You do post the ls -l output, but _not_ from the correct directory (oui seems to have the problem, which is part of /home/oracle/Desktop/Database/install/ and not part of /home/oracle/Desktop/Database). Look the output of ls -la /home/oracle/Desktop/Database/install and check to see if the permissions are correct and change them if needed.

Hope this helps.

same issue if i run it from root or oracle
[oracle@oel5 Database]$ ./runInstaller
./runInstaller: line 137: /home/oracle/Desktop/Database/install/.oui: Permission denied

did not solve the issue

[oracle@oel5 Database]$ sh runInstaller
runInstaller: line 137: /home/oracle/Desktop/Database/install/.oui: Permission denied


below is the result:

drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 14 2009 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 8 15:34 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 28 Aug 14 2009 addLangs.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 127 Aug 14 2009 addNode.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 275 Aug 14 2009 attachHome.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 182 Aug 14 2009 detachHome.sh
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 14 2009 images
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 15166 Aug 14 2009 lsnodes
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1997 Aug 14 2009 oraparam.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 6437 Aug 14 2009 oraparamsilent.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 180222 Aug 14 2009 .oui
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 14 2009 resource
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 22033 Aug 14 2009 runSSHSetup.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 101448 Aug 14 2009 unzip


thx in advance for your great help

Hi again,

As I already stated in post #11; Something is very wrong with the permissions of the files.

All .sh files should have 755 and probably others too (.oui to name just one).

I would suggest removing all that is in /home/oracle/Desktop/Database and copy it again as root using cp -pr <source> <destination>. Hopefully all permissions and owner/groups are copied correctly.

BTW: You didn't answer why you can't/won't burn the ISO to cd/dvd. It (installing from cd/dvd) is the way it should be done.