Saturday, May 21, 2011

OBIEE11g install problems and solutions I

I had to do a install of 11Gr5 on a laptop with windows7 64 bit and ran into a couple of problems. The laptop was/is kind of messed up because I often use it to test and install new version of a product.

Problem: Installation freezes in the configuration step.

  • Check if you have a 64 bit java JDK installed:image 

!DON’T look in the program files (X86) directory!

  • Check if your java_home points to the right directory:image

If you have a CLASS_PATH variable see that it points to the right directory, even better if you remove it (temporally) before install.

Till Next Time

4 comments:

Tony G said...
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Tony G said...

Hello
thanx for ur write up on installing OBIEE!

Now I have achieved that, How do I install the supplier2 schema with the tables?

Not forgeting the data required too!

Anonymous said...

Hi John,

Need your help configuration step is hanging in my machine and then i am getting error like this:
[2011-10-28T19:04:04.928+01:00] [as] [ERROR] [] [oracle.as.provisioning] [tid: 15] [ecid: 0000JDAxKIr8dpL_UPh8ic1Eefdf000006,0] [[
oracle.as.provisioning.util.ConfigException:
Error while starting the domain.
Cause:
Starting the Admin_Server timed out.
Action:
See logs for more details.
at oracle.as.provisioning.util.ConfigException.createConfigException(ConfigException.java:123)
at oracle.as.provisioning.weblogic.ASDomain.startDomain(ASDomain.java:3149)
at oracle.as.provisioning.weblogic.ASDomain.startDomain(ASDomain.java:3039)
at oracle.as.provisioning.engine.WorkFlowExecutor._startAdminServer(WorkFlowExecutor.java:1645)
at oracle.as.provisioning.engine.WorkFlowExecutor._createDomain(WorkFlowExecutor.java:635)
at oracle.as.provisioning.engine.WorkFlowExecutor.executeWLSWorkFlow(WorkFlowExecutor.java:391)
at oracle.as.provisioning.engine.Config.executeConfigWorkflow_WLS(Config.java:866)
at oracle.as.install.bi.biconfig.standard.StandardWorkFlowExecutor.executeHelper(StandardWorkFlowExecutor.java:31)
at oracle.as.install.bi.biconfig.standard.DomainProvisioningTask.doExecute(DomainProvisioningTask.java:48)
at oracle.as.install.bi.biconfig.standard.AbstractProvisioningTask.execute(AbstractProvisioningTask.java:70)
at oracle.as.install.bi.biconfig.standard.StandardProvisionTaskList.execute(StandardProvisionTaskList.java:61)
at oracle.as.install.bi.biconfig.BIConfigMain.doExecute(BIConfigMain.java:112)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.client.ConfigAction.execute(ConfigAction.java:335)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.TaskPerformer.run(TaskPerformer.java:87)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.TaskPerformer.startConfigAction(TaskPerformer.java:104)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.ActionRequest.perform(ActionRequest.java:15)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.RequestQueue.perform(RequestQueue.java:63)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.standard.StandardConfigActionManager.start(StandardConfigActionManager.java:158)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.boot.ConfigurationExtension.kickstart(ConfigurationExtension.java:81)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.ConfigurationModule.run(ConfigurationModule.java:83)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Thanks,
Raj

John Minkjan said...

@Raj,

Where you able to solve the problem? Did you raise a SR?

regards

John