Oracle Installation Fails

[Peter Peltonen <peter peltonen fivetec com>]

I've succeeded in installing Oracle 9iR2 on RH73 on a test server but
with the production server the installation fails. Or actually only the
last part: Running Agent Configuration Assistant.

Do I need the assistant for something vital? I'm only going to run a
single db.

Anyway, here's the details about the error I'm encountering. If someone
has an idea what might be wrong, let me know?

--<snip>--
Command which is being spawned is /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/JRE/bin/jre 
-classpath 
/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/JRE/lib/rt.jar:/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/jlib/srvm.jar:/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/agent/agentca.jar 
oracle.agent.AgentCA /orahome /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0 /nodeinfo
NO_VALUE
Configuration tool Agent Configuration Assistant was canceled
Result code for launching of configuration tool is -1
--</snip>--

I read some agent related documentation:

http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle9i/doc_library/release2/em.920/a96676/toc.htm

I checked if the agent was running on the test server and if not, would
it start:

--<snip>--
[root delfoi log]# agentctl status

DBSNMP for Linux: Version 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on 01-AUG-2002 16:15:09

Copyright (c) 2002 Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Could not contact agent. It may not be running.
[root delfoi log]# agentctl start 

DBSNMP for Linux: Version 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on 01-AUG-2002 16:15:18

Copyright (c) 2002 Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Starting Oracle Intelligent Agent......
Agent started
--/snip>--

Tried the same on our production server:

--<snip>--
[root chfiv103 root]# agentctl status

DBSNMP for Linux: Version 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on 01-AUG-2002 17:03:21

Copyright (c) 2002 Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Could not contact agent. It may not be running.
[root chfiv103 root]# agentctl start 

DBSNMP for Linux: Version 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on 01-AUG-2002 17:03:29

Copyright (c) 2002 Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Starting Oracle Intelligent Agent...\nAgent startup failed. Check
/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/log/dbsnmp.nohup for details
--</snip>--

And the logs say:

--</snip>--
[root chfiv103 root]# more
/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/log/dbsnmp.nohup
------------------------ Thu Aug  1 17:03:29 EEST 2002 
Certain conflicts were resolved during discovery
Please consult /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/log/nmiconf.log for   
details
Failed while initializing SNMP
Error initializing subsystems
Agent exited at Thu Aug  1 17:03:30 EEST 2002 with return value 55
Could not start agent. Initialization failure

[root chfiv103 root]# more
/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/log/nmiconf.log 
DBSNMP for Linux 2.4.18-5: release 9.2.0.0.0 - Production on 01-AUG-02
17:03:29
Discovering services on chfiv103 configured on host addresses {chfiv103
80.81.172.177}
Using oratab file /etc/oratab
Warning : Error while sourcing third party discovery file
emddiscover.tcl
: can't read "tabfile": no such variable
--</snip>--

Couldn't find any strangeness in the config files either:

/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/admin/snmp_ro.ora
/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/admin/snmp_rw.ora
/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/admin/listener.ora
/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/admin/tnsnames.ora

I'm a bit loss here...

Regards,
Peter