[chef] Re: Bash problem? with oracle 11gr2 install

["John E. Vincent (lusis)" < >]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Braden 
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 wrote:
> ***The Problem***
> When I fire off oracles install script it returns successful midway but
> continues to run after that (and you have to press enter at the very end) so
> when the first part returns zero chef thinks its all good and reports that 
> its
> done, but really chef needs to wait another 15+ mins while oracle finishes
> installing.
>
> ***Little more detail***
> I am trying to setup a recipe to do an oracle 11gr2 install.  It's my first
> recipe and so far most of it is going well.
>
> I have got chef to setup all the pre-reqs, but I am having trouble getting 
> it
> to install oracle (but if I ssh into the node and run the same command it
> works).  I have screen shots of the output of the manually run and the chef 
> run
> but I think the description is good enough.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.

Oracle installs are notoriously painful to automate. The install stops
in the middle, you have to jump to root to run a few scripts, and then
pick back up. FPM* wasn't around when I was trying to package it but
it might be worth giving it a shot. If you can package it with FPM
then it's just a simple install.

* http://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

John