Solaris

Everytime I run dbca or runInstaller I get this warning.

Warning: Cannot convert string "-monotype-arial-regular-r-normal--*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

I googled it but there are so many solutions but don't know which 1 to follow. This is for an old environment where Solaris OS was installed back in 2008 and we don't have the .iso image so whatever packages I am missing, I can't just get it.

What else can be done? Any help from the community will be highly appreciated.

You can do a silent install. If you do that you should use a response file. there are templates including in the install software. However, as long as you can see the installer screen, then don't worry about this error. I have seen this error before and I was still able to do the install.

Thanks you so much for replying. Just wondering about the syntax of running installer and dbca in a silent mode? Can you provide me with the syntax if you don't mind?

Thanks again.

Here are the documents. Essentially you need to copy a response file from the response directory. Then edit the file with vim, or whatever editor that you use. You will see something like this:

Code:

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Specify the location which holds the inventory files.
# This is an optional parameter if installing on
# Windows based Operating System.
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
INVENTORY_LOCATION=

And you would put in the name of the directory where the Inventory would be.
Try using /home/oracle/product assuming that the Oracle users home directory is /home/oracle. Then anywhere that there is a missing value fill in the value based on the notes above the value. If there is a value already there you don't need to change it. If you are installing a standalone instance then ignore anything that has RAC or Cluster. You should also be able to ignore proxy and the section related to autoupdates and myoracle support. You should decline security updates and updates via my oracle support. You need to pay for support for this to be useful. You can also leave the support username and password blank.

SECURITY_UPDATES_VIA_MYORACLESUPPORT=FALSE
DECLINE_SECURITY_UPDATES=TRUE


Installing and Configuring Oracle Database Using Response Files

Thank you Sir.