IDS 11.5 Install woe

Anyone having any problems installing IDS 11.5? I'm using RHEL 5 Update 1. First if all the install script wouldn't run at all, barfing with a "Java class error" when trying to run JRE bundled with IDS. I got around this by extracting .jvm.bin etc from IDS v10 media over the top of the ones supplied in the IDS 11 tar. That seemed to fix that problem, but now I get: ... Branding Installed Files ... Could not access the provided custom feature list. Installation of GLS failed. Could not access the provided custom feature list. Installation of Messages failed. Could not access the provided custom feature list. Installation of IBM Informix Internet Foundation failed. The InstallShield Wizard has successfully installed IBM Informix Dynamic Server Bundle. Choose Next to continue the wizard. ... And when I try to intialise ... [root@localhost crap]# onstat -V IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.UC1 Software Serial Number RDS#R000000 [root@localhost crap]# oninit -iv Invalid serial number. Please consult the Installation Instructions. :-((( Any advice welcome. I am by the way sure I have the right install media for 32-bit Linux. cheers Neil

Neil Truby wrote: > Anyone having any problems installing IDS 11.5? > > I'm using RHEL 5 Update 1. > > First if all the install script wouldn't run at all, barfing with a "Java > class error" when trying to run JRE bundled with IDS. > I got around this by extracting .jvm.bin etc from IDS v10 media over the top > of the ones supplied in the IDS 11 tar. > > That seemed to fix that problem, but now I get: > > ... > Branding Installed Files ... > Could not access the provided custom feature list. > Installation of GLS failed. > Could not access the provided custom feature list. > Installation of Messages failed. > Could not access the provided custom feature list. > Installation of IBM Informix Internet Foundation failed. > > The InstallShield Wizard has successfully installed IBM Informix Dynamic > Server > Bundle. Choose Next to continue the wizard. > > ... > > > > And when I try to intialise ... > > > [root@localhost crap]# onstat -V > IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.UC1 Software Serial Number > RDS#R000000 > [root@localhost crap]# oninit -iv > > Invalid serial number. Please consult the Installation Instructions. > > > :-((( > > Any advice welcome. I am by the way sure I have the right install media for > 32-bit Linux. > > cheers > Neil > > Did you uncompress the TAR with user Informix? Did you run the installer with user root? Do you have SELinux active? Regards.

> Did you uncompress the TAR with user Informix? No, I did with with root, and installed with root, as I always do. Frankly, when I read it, I thought your suggesting of extracting the tar archive as informix instead of root was crap. But, in fact, it worked! ;-) cheers Neil

Neil Truby wrote: >> Did you uncompress the TAR with user Informix? > > No, I did with with root, and installed with root, as I always do. > Frankly, when I read it, I thought your suggesting of extracting the tar > archive as informix instead of root was crap. > > But, in fact, it worked! ;-) > > cheers > Neil > > The last time I checked, there was an "su - informix ..." in the install script. Adn this could conflict with the file permissions if you untar it with root... But it was on version 10, so I was not sure. We should always follow the instructions :) But then again, the last time I looked at them was for version 10 :) Regards.

Neil First if all the install script wouldn't run at all, barfing with a "Java class error" when trying to run JRE bundled with IDS. I got around this by extracting .jvm.bin etc from IDS v10 media over the top of the ones supplied in the IDS 11 tar. - IDS v10 uses JRE 1.4 whereas v11 uses JRE 1.5. - You don't want to substitute .jvm.bin file from v10. - It basically introduces file entry mismatches and rendering the product unusable. Can you provide the exact error message you get when using the bundled JRE? Can you retry the installation (as root user) with -javahome none switch? This forces the installer to use the bundle JRE. Thanx, Sundar "Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> Sent by: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org 06/21/2008 07:51 PM To informix-list@iiug.org cc Subject IDS 11.5 Install woe Anyone having any problems installing IDS 11.5? I'm using RHEL 5 Update 1. First if all the install script wouldn't run at all, barfing with a "Java class error" when trying to run JRE bundled with IDS. I got around this by extracting .jvm.bin etc from IDS v10 media over the top of the ones supplied in the IDS 11 tar. That seemed to fix that problem, but now I get: ... Branding Installed Files ... Could not access the provided custom feature list. Installation of GLS failed. Could not access the provided custom feature list. Installation of Messages failed. Could not access the provided custom feature list. Installation of IBM Informix Internet Foundation failed. The InstallShield Wizard has successfully installed IBM Informix Dynamic Server Bundle. Choose Next to continue the wizard. ... And when I try to intialise ... [root@localhost crap]# onstat -V IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.UC1 Software Serial Number RDS#R000000 [root@localhost crap]# oninit -iv Invalid serial number. Please consult the Installation Instructions. :-((( Any advice welcome. I am by the way sure I have the right install media for 32-bit Linux. cheers Neil _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list