11gR2 installation failed with Error in CreateOUIProcess(): 13 : Permission denied 

Error:

Below error message reported when when installing 11gR2 client or running clone.pl

Error in CreateOUIProcess(): 13 : Permission denied”
INFO: Error Message:PRVF-4001 : Check: Space available on "/tmp"
INFO: Cause: Could not determine mount point for location specified.
INFO: Action: Ensure location specified is available.

Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

Checking swap space: must be greater than 500 MB.   Actual 5118 MB    Passed
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2023-10-21_12-08-16PM. Please wait ...Error in CreateOUIProcess(): 13
: Permission denied


Reason:

/tmp directory is mounted with noexec option.

You can verify this with following command:

$mount
on /tmp type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)


Solution:

1) With help of System Administrator and Remove “noexec” on /tmp folder


For example, to temporarily disable the noexec flag:

$ mount -o remount,exec /tmp
 

or

 

2) Redirect temp directory to other location which has exec and later retry installation 

Example-

export TMP=/u01/oracle
export TMPDIR=$TMP




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