Oracle Installer Error Codes

Cause: The string password should not be empty.

Action: Provide a non-empty password.

Cause: The string password and string confirm password should be the same.

Action: Ensure that string password and string confirm password are the same.

Cause: The string password length cannot exceed string characters.

Action: Provide a password lesser than string characters.

Cause: Passwords may contain only alphanumeric characters from the chosen database character set, underscore (_), dollar sign ($), or pound sign (#).

Action: Provide a password as per recommendations.

Cause: The string password entered is missing recommended characters. Oracle recommends that passwords contain at least one string .

Action: Provide a password which contains at least one string .

Cause: Oracle recommends that the string password entered should be at least string characters in length.

Action: Provide a password which is at least string characters in length.

Cause: Unexpected error occurred while trying to get the raw device partition size.

Action: Refer to the logs for more details.

Cause: Unexpected error occurred while trying to get the FS device partition size.

Action: Refer to the logs for more details.

Cause: Unable to get the FS partition free space size

Action: Unable to get the FS partition free space size

Cause: Unexpected error occurred while trying to get the file system type.

Action: Refer to the logs for more details.

Cause: Oracle recommends that the password entered should be at least string characters in length, contain at least 1 uppercase character, 1 lower case character and 1 digit [0-9].

Action: Provide a password that conforms to the Oracle recommended standards.

Cause: Unexpected error occurred while trying to check whether the partition is raw.

Action: Refer to the logs for more details.

Cause: The location specified might not have the required permissions.

Action: Provide a location which has the appropriate required permissions.

Cause: Unexpected error occurred during setting permission.

Action: Refer to the logs for more details.

Cause: Unable to lock or read the install inventory.

Action: Check the permissions on the inventory location.

Cause: Install inventory does not exist.

Action: Ensure that the install inventory exists.

Cause: Error occurred while retrieving the oracle home locations.

Action: Check if the existing inventory location is accessible.

Cause: Unexpected error occurred while trying to get the default oradata location.

Action: Refer to the logs for more details.

Cause: Unexpected error occurred while trying to get RAC databases info.

Action: Refer to the logs for more details.

Cause: Unexpected error occurred while trying to get SIDs and DB Homes on remote nodes.

Action: Refer to the logs for more details.

Cause: Unexpected error occurred while trying to get SIDs and DB Homes on node string .

Action: Refer to the logs for more details.

Cause: IO Exception occurred.

Action: Refer to the logs for more details.

Cause: Installer has detected Grid Infrastructure home (string ) registered in the Inventory. But the home location does not exist or is empty.

Action: Check if the location specified is a valid Grid Infrastructure home. If not unregister the home from inventory using deinstall procedures.

Cause: Refer to the logs for more details.

Action: Refer to the logs for more details.

Cause: Refer to the logs for more details.

Action: Refer to the logs for more details.

Cause: Refer to the logs for more details.

Action: Refer to the logs for more details.

Cause: Refer to the logs for more details.

Action: Refer to the logs for more details.

Cause: The content of cluster configuration file do not conform to the format recommended.

Action: Ensure that the contents of the cluster configuration file conform to the expected format.

Cause: Unexpected error while reading the given cluster configuration file.

Action: Ensure that the given cluster configuration file exists and has the read permissions.

Cause: User equivalence may not be setup between the local node and the remote nodes or sufficient file permissions are not set.

Action: Setup user equivalence or ensure sufficient file permissions are set.

Cause: Unexpected error occurred while trying to check free disk space across nodes.

Action: Refer to the logs or contact Oracle Support Services. Note for advanced users: Launch the installer by passing the following flag '-ignoreInternalDriverError'.

Cause: Unexpected error occurred while trying to get shared partitions across nodes.

Action: Refer to the logs or contact Oracle Support Services. Note for advanced users: Launch the installer by passing the following flag '-ignoreInternalDriverError'.

Cause: Unexpected error while detecting file system type across nodes.

Action: Refer to the logs or contact Oracle Support Services.

Cause: Unexpected error occurred while trying to check for group existence.

Action: Refer to the logs or contact Oracle Support Services. Note for advanced users: Launch the installer by passing the following flag '-ignoreInternalDriverError'.

Cause: Software is already running from the home selected for the install.

Action: Shutdown the following processes before continuing: string

Cause: A runtime error

Action: Refer to the logs or contact Oracle Support Services.

Cause: Files that need to be reinstalled or upgraded in this home are currently in use by running services.

Action: Please stop the following services before continuing: string

Cause: Files that need to be reinstalled or upgraded in this home are currently in use by one or more applications.

Action: Please close any running applications before continuing.

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Cause: Unexpected error while checking connectivity of nodes through the interface.

Action: Refer to the logs or contact Oracle Support Services.

Cause: Specified location is on a volume without enough disk space on nodes: string .

Action: Choose a location that has enough space (minimum of string MB) or free up space on the existing volume.

Cause: Unexpected error occurred while trying to perform status check on existing Oracle Clusterware.

Action: Refer to the logs or contact Oracle Support Services. Note for advanced users: Launch the installer by passing the following flag '-ignoreInternalDriverError'.

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Cause: The partition provided was not available on the system.

Action: Provide a partition that is available on the system.

Cause: A value was not specified for the Password field.

Action: Choose a nonempty password.

Cause: The password entered in the Confirm Password field did not match the password entered in the Password field.

Action: Enter the same password in both Password and Confirm Password fields for confirmation purposes.

Cause: The specified Oracle base is same as the user home directory.

Action: Provide an Oracle base location other than the user home directory.

Cause: The specified string contained one or more invalid characters.

Action: Choose a string containing only alphanumeric characters and a few additional characters that are allowed for your platform.

Cause: The string you entered contains the space character.

Action: Please choose a string containing only alphanumeric, and a few additional characters that are allowed for your platform.

Cause: Either proper permissions were not granted to create the directory or there was no space left in the volume.

Action: Check your permission on the selected directory or choose another directory.

Cause: The string location was empty.

Action: Specify a path for string location.

Cause: The specified location cannot be used for string . Either the specified location is not found on the system or is detected to be a file.

Action: Specify a valid location for string .

Cause: The selected Oracle home contained directories or files.

Action: To start with an empty Oracle home, either remove its contents or choose another location.

Cause: Path specified for string contains one or more folders which exceeds maximum folder name length.

Action: Specify the location which contains folders name length not more than string characters.

Cause: The Oracle home selected was outside of Oracle base.

Action: Oracle recommends installing Oracle software within the Oracle base directory. Adjust the Oracle home or Oracle base accordingly.

Cause: The selected Oracle home was on a volume without enough disk space.

Action: Choose a location for Oracle home that has enough space (minimum of string MB) or free up space on the existing volume.

Cause: Grid infrastructure for a cluster installations assign root ownership to all parent directories of the Grid home location. As a result, ownership of all named directories in the software location path are changed to root, creating permissions errors for all subsequent installations into the same Oracle base.

Action: Specify software location outside of an Oracle base directory for grid infrastructure for a cluster installations.

Cause: The specified Oracle base location is identical to an existing Oracle home location.

Action: Specify a location for Oracle base which is not an existing Oracle home.

Cause: The chosen installation conflicted with software already installed in the given Oracle home.

Action: Install into a different Oracle home.

Cause: Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster installation will assign root ownership to all parent directories of Oracle Clusterware software location. As a result, all named directories in the software location path will acquire root ownership. This may create problems for subsequent installations into the same Oracle base.

Action: Specify software location outside of Oracle base.

Cause: The Central Inventory location provided was empty.

Action: Provide a valid location for the inventory.

Cause: Inventory location was invalid.

Action: Specify a valid inventory location.

Cause: Central Inventory location was not writable.

Action: Ensure that the inventory location is writable.

Cause: The inventory directory contained one or more invalid characters.

Action: The inventory directory can contain only alphanumeric, hyphen, and underscore characters.

Cause: The central inventory location provided is not empty.

Action: Please provide another location for the inventory, or clean up the current location.

Cause: User home directory has been chosen as inventory directory. Oracle recommends that the inventory directory is not users home directory, because members of inventory group will be given write permission to the inventory directory.

Action: Choose a directory other than users home as inventory location.

Cause: No value specified for central inventory (oraInventory) ownership group.

Action: Specify an operating system group whose members should have write permission to the central inventory directory (oraInventory).

Cause: User performing installation is not a member of the operating system group specified for central inventory(oraInventory) ownership.

Action: Specify an operating system group that the installing user is a member of. All the members of this operating system group will have write permission to the central inventory directory (oraInventory).

Cause: The current user and current group do not match with the user and group of inventory location.

Action: Ensure that the file user and group are same as the installer user and install group respectively.

Cause: Oracle base and Oracle home locations were same.

Action: Oracle base and Oracle home locations cannot be same. Oracle recommends installing Oracle software within the Oracle base directory. Adjust the Oracle home or Oracle base accordingly.

Cause: The Oracle home name specified on the command line corresponded to an existing Oracle home name in the Central Inventory.

Action: Choose another Oracle home name. Abort this installation session and try again.

Cause: The Central Inventory string was located on a shared file system.

Action: Oracle recommends placing this Central Inventory on a local file system that is not shared by other systems, because it is a server-specific inventory of the installation on this server. Oracle strongly recommends that you move the Central Inventory to a local disk so that installations from other servers do not corrupt the Central Inventory for this server.

Cause: The Central Inventory is located in the Oracle base.

Action: Oracle recommends placing this Central Inventory in a location outside the Oracle base directory.

Cause: Insufficient write permissions were granted to create this directory on the specified node.

Action: Ensure that you have the required write permissions. Alternatively, you may want to choose another location.

Cause: An invalid or non-existent ASM disk group has been selected.

Action: Ensure that the selected ASM disk group exists.

Cause: The string location provided is not absolute path.

Action: Please provide absolute location for the string .

Cause: The MTS port text field is either empty or containing non-numeric characters

Action: Provide a valid value for MTS port.

Cause: Refer to the error message for details.

Action: Specify a valid port number.

Cause: The value you have entered for the MTS Port is out of the valid range.

Action: Enter a MTS Port number between 1024 and 65535.

Cause: No product language selected for installation.

Action: Select at least one product language for installation.

Cause: An attempt was made to remove English from the selected languages list.

Action: Select English as one of the selected product languages.

Cause: Not all selected product languages are supported.

Action: Refer to the sample response file for more information.

Cause: Refer the log files for details.

Action: Refer to the logs or contact Oracle Support Services.

Cause: Software installation was successful. But some configuration assistants failed, were cancelled or skipped.

Action: Refer to the logs or contact Oracle Support Services.

Cause: My Oracle Support username cannot be empty..

Action: Provide a valid My Oracle Support username.

Cause: My Oracle Support password cannot be empty..

Action: Provide a valid My Oracle Support password.

Cause: Credentials provided may be invalid, or there may be a network connection issue.

Action: Check the My Oracle Support credentials. Also check the proxy setting and authentication credentials, and the network connection.

Cause: The installer is unable to locate the software updates in the specified directory.

Action: For software updates to work in offline mode, the downloaded updates must be in a particular path location format. Refer to your installation manual for details.

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Cause: The My Oracle Support credentials you provided may not have download privileges, or there may be a network or proxy authentication issue.

Action: Provide credentials with download privileges. Also check the network connection and, if you have a proxy realm, your proxy credentials.

Cause: This may be due to a network connection problem.

Action: Check the connection to My Oracle Support.

Cause: The patch download location cannot be empty.

Action: Provide the location where the updates have been downloaded.

Cause: The downloaded metadata for software updates is not properly formatted.

Action: Refer to the logs or contact Oracle Support Services.

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Cause: The user name provided is invalid. It either contains invalid characters or does not follow the standard e-mail address format.

Action: Specify an e-mail address that is consistent with RFC 2822 and RFC 2821 format.

Cause: The location provided does not have space for downloading all the updates.

Action: Choose a location with enough space or free up space on the existing volume.

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Cause: My Oracle Support credentials provided does not have download privileges.

Action: Provide My Oracle Support credentials with download privileges in order to check for latest updates.

Cause: The list of selected components is empty.

Action: Select at least one component for installation.

Cause: The Oracle Scheduler Agent port text field is either empty or containing non-numeric characters.

Action: Provide a valid value for Scheduler Agent port.

Cause: Specified port number is in use.

Action: Specify a valid port number.

Cause: The value you have entered for the Oracle Scheduler Agent port is out of the valid range.

Action: Enter a port number between 1024 and 65535.

Cause: The Oracle Scheduler Agent hostname text field is empty.

Action: Provide a valid text in Scheduler Agent Host Name field.

Cause: The selected software location does not meet the criteria for a client upgrade.

Action: Only client homes of version 11.2.0.1.0 or higher containing only client software may be upgraded.

Cause: Could not resolve the Scheduler Agent Host Name specified.

Action: Provide valid local Host Name.

Cause: Scheduler Agent Host Name specified does not match with local hosts name.

Action: Scheduler Agent Host Name must be a local host name.

Cause: Invalid characters found in Scheduler Agent Host Name.

Action: Ensure Host Name contains valid characters. Valid characters for host names can be any combination of lower and uppercase alphanumeric characters (a - z, A - Z, 0 - 9), and hyphen (-).

Cause: \"localhost\" and \"127.0.0.1\" are invalid inputs for Scheduler Agent Host Name.

Action: Enter host name which can be recognized by other hosts on the network.