It does sound like a corrupted file to me.. Did you try to download the file
again and install from a newly downloaded file?

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dwayne Martin
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 11:50 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: "arsystem.tar" error installing as non-root


First of all, Thank You! to those who responded.

In the installation screen output I am finding:

**
---------- List of Extracted Files -----------
bin/
bin/runmacro
tar: bin/runmacro: Wrote only 1536 of 10240 bytes
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: help: Not found in archive
tar: locale: Not found in archive
tar: templates: Not found in archive
tar: plugins/ssoldap: Not found in archive
tar: plugins/ardbcconf: Not found in archive
tar: plugins/areahub: Not found in archive
tar: plugins/serveradmin: Not found in archive
tar: plugins/FlashboardObject: Not found in archive
tar: ora_db: Not found in archive
tar: samples: Not found in archive
tar: z: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

**

I copied "arsystem.tar" to a "temp" file and un-tarred it.  It produced a
lot of folders with subfolders and files.  "help", "templates", "plugins",
"ora_db" and "z" are not there, but "locale" and "samples" distinctly are.
(I get variations on the list of things it can't find.)

Could this be the problem?  If so, why hasn't anybody else noticed it?  I'm
surely not the first person to try installing 7.1 (altho I may be the first
to install as non-root).  And why am I getting the same error when
re-installing 7.0.1, which I have installed successfully in the past?

I tried renaming "arsystem.tar" to "arsystem.tar.bk" and the installer
complained right away, so it at least is finding the file.

Now, to reply to those who responded:
Axton:

"You have to make sure that /etc/rpc was updated with the proper program
numbers if installing as non-root."

Please tell me more.  My non-root login has permissions to /etc/rpc.  What
numbers should I be seeing?

Take a look in the install script and see where it attempts to upack the tar
file.  It could be that the user has no permissions to the location where
the tar is being unpacked."

A good thing to check on.  I looked at the script and everything appears to
be going into files that the non-root login has permissions to, and has been
writing into all along.

"It may also be that you are missing a / at the beginning of the path for
the installation product:"
Another good thing to check on.  But yes, the "/" is there.

Joe:
"What is the error you are getting during the install???"
"./ar_install : Unable to extract the product files from the CDROM file
arsystem/linux/arsystem.tar"

Mac:
"Yes, before you execute the install, run this command to tell the install
you are installing as non-root
export ARNONROOTINSTALL="TRUE"
Have good weekend."

Yes, I have set up and exported "ARNONROOTINSTALL="TRUE"".  The installer
stops you right away if you don't have ARNONROOTINSTALL="TRUE", and you
aren't root.

Thanks again,
Dwayne Martin

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:20:44 -0400
>From: Axton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: "arsystem.tar" error installing as non-root
>To: [email protected]
>
>You have to make sure that /etc/rpc was updated with the proper
>program numbers if installing as non-root.
>
>Take a look in the install script and see where it attempts to upack
>the tar file.  It could be that the user has no permissions to the
>location where the tar is being unpacked.
>
>It may also be that you are missing a / at the beginning of the path
>for the installation product:
>
>./ar_install : Unable to extract the product files from
>the CDROM file arsystem/linux/arsystem.tar
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Axton Grams
>
>On 9/14/07, Dwayne Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I am upgrading our Linux AR Server from 7.0.1 to 7.1 as non-root. (Oracle
10.2 db)
>>
>> Everything went OK till the very end when I got:
>>
>> * * *
>> ./ar_install : Unable to extract the product files from
>> the CDROM file arsystem/linux/arsystem.tar
>>
>> * * *
>>
>> The message referred me to two log files, one of which simply repeated
what I saw on the screen, and the other gave the date and time of
installation.
>>
>> I logged in as root, and gave "arsystem/linux/arsystem.tar" total
permissions.  I can see it with my non-root login.
>>
>> But when I tried the installation again I got the same error.
>>
>> And here is what makes it really bad.  I restart the AR System, and it
says "Action Request System initialization is complete," but when I try to
sign in on the User tool I get. "ARERR [90] Cannot establish a network
connection to the AR System server : rem2 (0) : RPC: Program not
registered."  "ps -ef | grep armonitor" etc shows that none of the vital
processes are running.
>>
>> Fortunately this isn't our live server, but I can't do any development
work till this gets solved.
>>
>> Finally I decided to reinstall the 7.0.1 version.  But when I do (I've
tried it twice) I get the same error.  I've installed 7.0.1 several times
and never seen this error.
>>
>> Any idea what is going on and what I can do about it?
>>
>> Dwayne Martin
>> James Madison University
>>
>> Dwayne Martin
>> Computing Support
>> James Madison University

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