Oracle Install - help!

[CathJ]

I'm stuck - I need the Oracle 10g Client installed on my machine (winXP), but I can't install it.

Basically what happens is that javaw.exe throws an exception during the "copy files" phase of the install. I've googled, and I can't find a single other instance of this (except that some of the guys I work with have the same problem).

I've uninstalled my java vm, and installed the latest version; I've tried the oracle installation a gazillion times (cleaning out the registry etc between attempts); and I just don't know what else to try!

Does anyone have any ideas that might help?

 

[Nod]

Any messages in the event log files?

 

[w1z4rd]

Perhaps it needs an older version of Java?

 

[Conradl]

Do you have an exact error message and perhaps a log file?

 

[CathJ]

There is no exact message, as such, but VisualStudio's JIT Debugger pops up with the message "An unhandled win32 exception occcurred in javaw.exe". Equally, there are no errors in the log, but here's the last few lines:

INFO: Setting the PROD_HOME variable of 'oracle.jdk_1.4.2.0.8' to 'C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\Oracle10g\jdk'. Received the value from the variable calculation. 
INFO: Query Returned: C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\Oracle10g\jdk
INFO: Setting variable 'JRE_LOCATION' to 'C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\Oracle10g\jdk'. Received the value from a code block.
INFO: Setting variable 'JRE_LOCATION' to 'C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\Oracle10g\jdk\jre'. Received the value from a code block.
INFO: Setting variable 'ABSOLUTE_JRE_LOCATION' to 'C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\Oracle10g\jdk\jre'. Received the value from a code block.
INFO: Setting variable 'JRE_LOCATION' to '\jdk\jre'. Received the value from a code block.
INFO: Setting variable 'JRE_LOCATION' to 'jdk\jre'. Received the value from a code block.
INFO: Setting variable 'JRE_LOCATION' to '../../jdk\jre'. Received the value from a code block.
INFO: Setting variable 'JRE_LOCATION' to '..\..\jdk\jre'. Received the value from a code block.
INFO: Setting variable 'ABSOLUTE_JRE_LOCATION' to 'C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\Oracle10g\jdk\jre'. Received the value from a code block.
INFO: Calling Action ntw32FoldersActions10.2.0.0.0  ntCreateItem
	selectedNodes = null
	groupName = Oracle - OraClient10g_home1\Oracle Installation Products
	itemName = Universal Installer
	exeName = C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\Oracle10g\oui\bin\setup.exe
	paramName = null
	workingDir = C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\Oracle10g\oui
	iconFileName = null
	icon = 0
	cmdType = null
	multiparamName = null

 

[CathJ]

Hmm. Done a bit more googling, seems like it might be a MS patch that's the problem. That's fine, I only have 306 or so installed!

Guess I'll have to keep googling, hopefully I can narrow it down a bit.

 

[Conradl]

Permissions? Try run process Explorer from www.sysinternals.com to see if its a permission problem.

 

[CathJ]

Permissions? Try run process Explorer from www.sysinternals.com to see if its a permission problem.

Seems okay.

 

[CathJ]

Okay, finally found the problem after almost a day of googling! We have archiving software called Zantaz installed, and that clashes with the oracle installation. All I had to was rename a dll called easfa.dll, and the installation works!

 

[Nod]

It is normally a dll problem. Usually because Oracle needs to write to it, and the other app is using it.