RedHat Linux command line install

[Elden Jahnke]

Hello

We are trying to install 5.4.1 on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 virtual machine

I have followed the requirements regarding

1) compat-libstdc++

2) free space

3) username conflicts

I run ./linux.bin -console

After entering “1” (1 = next) the installer just exists out. No error message, no log file

Can I be pointed in the right direction please?

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[Scott Folley]

What permissions do you have set up on the /tmp directory?

[Elden Jahnke]

drwxrwxrwt   7 root root   140 May  6 12:38 tmp

[Scott Folley]

Is /tmp its own file system when you do a “df”?

[Scott Folley]

Okay, rather than playing 20 questions I am going to jump right to what the issue was for me.  I can’t guarantee that it is the same for you but this is what happened to me.

When you install Redhat it sets up the /tmp partition in the default partition table as a separate file system.  That file system is mounted with a “noexec” flag.  The installation script used with Cloverleaf extracts the files needed for the installation into /tmp and then runs it out of there.  When the /tmp filesystem is mounted with the “noexec” flag then the part of the installation that extracts the files works fine so you end up with the installation files sitting in /tmp but they CANNOT BE EXECUTED.  What you have to do to make it work is unmount that file system and remount it without that noexec flag.

Let me know if that helps.

[Elden Jahnke]

here is the filesystem information

I will have to look into what each flag means in the fstab for the temp file system cause I can’t tell just from looking at it

[root@ontempd0aav002 ~]# more /etc/fstab

/dev/vg00/root_fs       /                       ext3    defaults        1 1

/dev/vg00/opt_fs        /opt                    ext3    defaults        1 2

/dev/vg00/home_fs       /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2

/dev/vg00/usr_fs        /usr                    ext3    defaults        1 2

/dev/vg00/var_fs        /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2

LABEL=/boot1            /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2

tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0

devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0

sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0

proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0

LABEL=SWAP-sda2         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

none                    /tmp                    tmpfs   size=2G,uid=0,gid=0,mode=1777  0 0

[root@ontempd0aav002 ~]# df -h

Filesystem             Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/mapper/vg00-root_fs        2.0G  491M  1.4G  26% /

/dev/mapper/vg00-opt_fs          12G  379M   11G   4% /opt

/dev/mapper/vg00-home_fs        3.9G  703M  3.0G  19% /home

/dev/mapper/vg00-usr_fs         3.9G  978M  2.8G  26% /usr

/dev/mapper/vg00-var_fs         3.9G  629M  3.1G  17% /var

/dev/sda1             494M   25M  445M   6% /boot

tmpfs                       1006M     0 1006M   0% /dev/shm

none                   2.0G  888K  2.0G   1% /tmp

Thanks for your input so far

[Elden Jahnke]

Just as a test, I manually executed one of your scripts (hciinstallprep) located in the /tmp directory from the directory where the install binaries are located

I wanted to test executing a script located in the /tmp directory to try and clear some questions

[root@ontempd0aav002 Cloverleaf_integaration_suite_v5.4.1]# pwd

/home/software/Cloverleaf_integaration_suite_v5.4.1

[root@ontempd0aav002 Cloverleaf_integaration_suite_v5.4.1]# /tmp/install/hciinstallprep

perl done

bin/gnutar done

[root@ontempd0aav002 Cloverleaf_integaration_suite_v5.4.1]#

Seemed to have executed so, /tmp looks like is mounted with the default exec flag

Any more ideas?

I’ve looked for other postings but command line install doesn’t seem to be very popular

[Scott Folley]

I would have to see what it is trying to do after you enter the install command.  I am on 5.6 and recently installed 5.8 but the install process is a bit different.  It does sound like your /tmp exec flag is correct but I would still guess that it is either a permissions problem somewhere or a command-line tool is missing from your installation.

[Elden Jahnke]

ok

It dies after it asks “Press 1 to continue” right after it loads the JVM

We’ve followed the guide up until this point

Please let us know what could a next step be since this will present a bottle neck in our deployments

[Scott Folley]

I would be happy to help you but without being able to see it I do not have enough information.

[Elden Jahnke]

Fair enough

What information you need? I will upload it

[Elden Jahnke]

Here is what happens

Notice that after entering “1” it dies

[root@ontempd0aav002 Cloverleaf_integaration_suite_v5.4.1]# ./linux.bin -console

InstallShield Wizard

Initializing InstallShield Wizard…

Preparing Java(tm) Virtual Machine…

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Environment variable DISPLAY is set to null

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Welcome to the InstallShield Wizard for CLOVERLEAF(R) Integration Suite

The InstallShield Wizard will install “CLOVERLEAF Integration Suite” on your

computer.

To continue, choose Next.

“CLOVERLEAF Integration Suite”

Press 1 for Next, 3 to Cancel or 4 to Redisplay [1] 1

[root@ontempd0aav002 Cloverleaf_integaration_suite_v5.4.1]#

[Elden Jahnke]

One thing I can notice is the following

In your documentation you specify compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.122

the one that we have installed (the one available on redhat network) is

[root@ontempd0aav002 software]# rpm -q compat-libstdc++

compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.128

Can this version difference (even tho its a compat package) be causing issues?

Thanks for all your input so far 🙂

[Russ Ross]

I will list the steps I did for my install at the command line for Cloverleaf 5.6 on AIX in case any of these steps might get you going.

# check that /tmp has at least 50 megabytes of free disk space

# touch x.x so I can clean up any install files created after x.x

# because install doesn’t clean up after itself

# open a new xterm

su

whoami

export CL_INSTALL_DIR=/quovadx/qdx5.6

echo $CL_INSTALL_DIR > /tmp/.qdx5.6

export DISPLAY=10.106.153.59:0.0

cd /upgrade/56_aix53_copy_of_install_cd; ./aix.bin

exit

#

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# NOTE: advise to run install twice; once for cloverleaf and once for ODBC

# use /quovadx/qdx5.6/integrator as root install dir for ODBC

#

# be sure to clean up /tmp of obvious install cluter      

# you must close all xterms to pick up new /etc/environment

#

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Russ Ross
RussRoss318@gmail.com

[Scott Folley]

Elden Jahnke wrote:

Fair enough

What information you need? I will upload it

Well, what I would probably need is the installation media for 5.4.1.  I do not think that the libraries are your problem but without looking into the installation script and seeing what it is supposed to do next it is difficult to determine what the problem is.  I strongly suspect that it is not reacting to the console argument properly so what it is really doing is attempting to use the GUI install in which case it is failing quietly because you do not have an X11 console on your computer.

Do you access the system with SSH or with telnet?  If it is through SSH then I have a solution for you.  Basically it involves installing Xming on the desktop that you are accessing the server from.  Once you have done that then you need X11 forwarding setup.

Before I go into too much of that, let me know if you can get that far or if you absolutely must do this as a console install.

[Elden Jahnke]

Yes we are looking into getting a VNC server installed

GUI installer will be our next attempt. It’s the next logical step

Will update on results

[Elden Jahnke]

Hello again

We have VNC installed and working

We are trying to run the installer from an xterm window by executing ./linux.bin and we are getting the same graphical mode error

I am attaching a screenshot

We have installed xterm, x11 and real vnc server

is there a log file anywhere?

[Elden Jahnke]

Have made some progress

We were missing xterm from our redhat install

By forwarding x11 traffic to Xming finally we can see an installer window now

Will proceed with the installation

[Scott Folley]

It wouldn’t seem like a missing xterm would be the cause, it seems like an unset display variable would have been the root cause.  X11 forwarding in Xming would have taken care of that.  I hope the rest of it goes well for you.

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