Oracle 11g installation stuck at installation

installationoracleoracle-11g-r2

I'm trying to install oracle 11g on fedora by following this tutorial but it stuck after I click Next in step 8. The screen does not go away even after several hours. There's no log file in oraInventory folder.

What could be the possible problem? How can I debug it?

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Best Answer

I've struggled the same problem and I think the problem comes from gnome failing to pop up the confirmation dialog. That's why there is nothing in the error logs. So what I did is changing the window manager from gnome to xfce. That solved the problem. It would probably work with another manager or there may be a fix for gnome but here is how to install xfce:

yum -y install epel-release #adding epel repository
sed -i -e "s/enabled=1/enabled=0/g" /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo # using it only when needed
yum --enablerepo=epel -y groups install "Xfce" #installing xfce

echo "exec /usr/bin/xfce4-session" >> ~/.xinitrc 
startx

If you prefer to install oracle via vnc then skip the last two lines and change the /home/vnc-user/.vnc/xstartup ( vnc-user is oracle at my box ) like this:

#unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
#exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
/usr/bin/xfce4-session

If you don't know how to install vnc server on your CentOS 7 or Fedora box here is a guide: https://www.howtoforge.com/vnc-server-installation-on-centos-7

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