Monday, June 15, 2009

Oracle Universal Installer Fails with "Alert: Unable to create a new Oracle Home with name. An ORCA Oracle Home with this name already exists."

Any destination entered in the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) returns the
error:


Error : Alert: Unable to create a new Oracle Home with name .
An ORCA Oracle Home with this name already exists.


This is because of bug Bug 2998836.
There is at least one entry in the 'oratab' file that starts with a '*' instead
of a SID. This causes the OUI loading ORCA homes from oratab to fail with a
misleading error.

As a workaround, modify the oratab file by commenting out the entries that begin
with "*" before running the installer, then return the entries to normal when
the installation is complete.
This defect is fixed in OUI 2.3 but it will not be available for Oracle Server
9.2.

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