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Today I was asked to assist in troubleshooting an Oracle Client (10g) installation. The installation halted very quickly with a java.lang.NullPointerException:
The install window shows the Exception:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 | Arg:13:oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicInstaller: Arg:14:-scratchPath: Arg:15:"C:\DOCUME~1\!RWEIJ~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\OraInstall2011-09-06_03-32-16PM" : Arg:16:-sourceLoc: Arg:17:"c:\temp\oracle\source\client\install\../stage/products.xml" : Arg:18:-sourceType: Arg:19:network: Arg:20:-timestamp: Arg:21:2011-09-06_03-32-16PM: Arg:22:-WAITFORCOMPLETION -debug -nowait -silent -responsefile "c:\temp\Oracle\ Source\client\response\response.rsp": ------------------------------------------------------- Initializing Java Virtual Machine from "C:\DOCUME~1\!RWEIJ~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\OraI nstall2011-09-06_03-32-16PM\jre\1.4.2\bin\java.exe" . Please wait... exception in set dafaults -- setup app properties Exception java.lang.NullPointerException occurred.. java.lang.NullPointerException at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicBaseApp.initBooleanDefaults(OiicBaseApp.ja va:452) at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicBaseApp.setDefaults(OiicBaseApp.java:442) at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicBaseApp.processCmdLine(OiicBaseApp.java:281) at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicInstaller.processCommandLine(OiicInstaller.java:652) at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicInstaller.runInstaller(OiicInstaller.java:893) at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicInstaller.main(OiicInstaller.java:872) Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicInstaller.runInstaller(OiicInstaller.java:990) at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicInstaller.main(OiicInstaller.java:872) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at oracle.sysman.oii.oiif.oiifm.OiifmMainFrame.addWizardDialog(OiifmMainFrame.java:358) at oracle.sysman.oii.oiif.oiifw.OiifwWizDialog.<init>(OiifwWizDialog.java:525) at oracle.sysman.oii.oiif.oiifw.OiifwWizDialog.<init>(OiifwWizDialog.java:550) at oracle.sysman.oii.oiif.oiifm.OiifmGraphicInterfaceManager.<init>(OiifmGraphicInterfaceManager.java:263) at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicSessionInterfaceManager.createInterfaceManager(OiicSessionInterfaceManager.java:194) at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicSessionInterfaceManager.getInterfaceManager(OiicSessionInterfaceManager.java:203) at oracle.sysman.oii.oiif.oiifm.OiifmAlert.<clinit>(OiifmAlert.java:151) ... 2 more |
I looked at the setup log (default directory is SYSTEM_DRIVE:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory\logs) but this didn’t show any relevant info.
I also tried adding the -debug switch to the install but again no root cause info.
I turns out that this failure is caused when you run the installation with a username that contains an exclamation mark (!).
In my case there is a company policy that administrative accounts start with an exclamation mark (eg !rweijnen).
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