silent install websphere 5.0.2 on RHE 3

[gillianb]

Hi,

I notice a few other threads from ages ago on this subject, and the responses from those I have tried without success.

I have websphere application server express 5.0.2 to be silently installed onto RHE 3. I know that this OS is not supported directly, but I was able to get this working OK on centos - a derivative of RHE.

From /mnt/cdrom I run
./setupLinux -is:silent -options /tmp/responsefile.txt

It takes a few minutes, then just stops, without websphere being installed and with no log files generated or any other useful information. An strace of the process shows looping
[pid 11079] gettimeofday( <unfinished ...>
[pid 11075] nanosleep({0, 10000000}, <unfinished ...>
[pid 11079] <... gettimeofday resumed> {1111535970, 46392}, NULL) = 0
[pid 11079] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [HUP INT QUIT USR1 USR2 TERM], [], 8) = 0
[pid 11079] tgkill(11079, 11080, SIGUSR2 <unfinished ...>
[pid 11080] <... nanosleep resumed> 0xb4f25804) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
[pid 11079] <... tgkill resumed> ) = 0
[pid 11080] --- SIGUSR2 (User defined signal 2) @ 0 (0) ---

so I tried without the silent flag:
./setupLinux -options /tmp/responsefile.txt
My response file just contains the usual stuff with location (/usr/local/IBM), which webserver (apache) and yes please install the plugins for webserver. I have set JAVA_HOME to be where j2re is located. My result is this:
Could not find bean defaultApacheConfigFileLocationBean
Could not find bean installSampleAppSequenceBean
Could not find bean firstStepsSequenceBean
Could not find bean installIVTAppSequenceBean
product bean wasBean does not exist
product bean adminBean does not exist
product bean adminScriptingFeatureBean does not exist
product bean adminConsoleFeatureBean does not exist
product bean applicationAndAssemblyToolsBean does not exist
product bean applicationAssemblyToolBean does not exist
product bean deployToolBean does not exist
product bean pluginBean does not exist
product bean apachePluginBean does not exist
product bean samplesBean does not exist
product bean performanceAndAnalysisToolsBean does not exist
product bean performanceServletBean does not exist
product bean javadocBean does not exist
product bean StartServerIconBean does not exist
product bean StopServerIconBean does not exist
product bean AdminConsoleIconBean does not exist
product bean AssemblyToolIconBean does not exist
product bean SamplesGalleryIconBean does not exist
product bean TivoliPerfIconBean does not exist
product bean infoCenterIconBean does not exist
product bean firstStepsIconBean does not exist
product bean logAnalyzerIconBean does not exist


It is probably something really simple that I have done, but I am unable to locate this really simple thing.

Thanks, Gillian

 

[gillianb]

hi,

well I have progressed a little further, just FYI. I have installed j2re, jdk and an IBM JDK that came with the download of websphere v6. I set a variable JAVA_HOME to be /usr/java, and then I got up an install wizard window when I ran the command below. All very odd seeing ashow I had used the flags:

setupLinix -is:silent -options /tmp/responsefile

Anyhow, it did an install of kinds, but nothing now runs. One step closer I guess.

gb