Troubleshooting Oracle SOA 12C: Installation Issue: Insufficient free Space in /tmp

This post covers issue encountered during Installing Fusion Middleware Infrastructure for Oracle SOA Suite 12C (This issue/fix is also applicable to any other Fusion Middleware product like WebLogic, WebCenter, OBIEE, ODI etc). If you are new to Oracle SOA 12c or Fusion Middleware then I highly recommend checking Atul’s Post about Oracle SOA/BPM 12c Architecture Every Apps DBA Must Know

Issue Encountered

On Start of Installation of  Fusion_Infrastructure, Error reported on screen “Insufficient free space in /tmp/orcl****.tmp to extract the installer. Actual 1000 MB. Required 1504 MB.”

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[oracle@1712soa12c01 fusion_infra12c]$ /usr/java/jdk1.8.0_71/bin/java -jar -d64 fmw_12.2.1.2.0_infrastructure.jar
Launcher log file is /tmp/OraInstall2017-12-11_06-50-05AM/launcher2017-12-11_06-50-05AM.log.Insufficient free space in /tmp/orcl5927532452798696103.tmp to extract the installer
Actual 1000 MB. Required 1504 MB.
The log is located here: /tmp/OraInstall2017-12-11_06-50-05AM/launcher2017-12-11_06-50-05AM.log.
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Root Cause

If you look at the error message it is clear that installer is expecting approx 1.5GB whereas if you look at space available on the server in /tmp is 1GB (use df -h /tmp to find space available on a mount)

[oracle@1712soa12c01 fusion_infra12c]$ df -h /tmp/
Filesystem  Size  Used   Avail   Use%   Mounted on
overflow  2000M  24K  1500M  1%  /tmp

Fix

 You have two options to fix this issue

• Option 1: Increase Space in /tmp
• Option 2: Change temp location used by installer by using option -Djava.io.tmpdir

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Step By Step Instructions to Fix Issue

Step 1. Create another temp directory like /tmp2 and assign correct permission

Step 1.1 Login in as Root

Step 1.2. Create another directory named as tmp2 under root.

[oracle@1712soa12c01 fusion_infra12c]$ su –
Password:
[root@1712soa12c01 ~]# mkdir /tmp2
[root@1712soa12c01 ~]# df -h /tmp2/
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_mastersoa12c-lv_root
50G  22G  25G 47%

So now tmp2 has 25GB space free.

Step 1.3. Make sure Oracle user (user installing SOA Suite) can read, write and execute in this directory. Change the mode of the directory as shown in the image.

[root@1712soa12c01 ~]# chmod 777 /tmp2

Step 2. Start installation using option -Djava.io.tmpdir

[oracle@1712soa12c01 fusion_infra12c]$ /usr/java/jdk1.8.0_71/bin/java -jar -d64 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp2 fmw_12.2.1.2.0_infrastructure.jar

Launcher log file is /tmp2/OraInstall2017-12-11_07-02-52AM/launcher2017-12-11_07-02-52AM.log.
Extracting the installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
Checking if CPU speed is above 300 MHz. Actual 1628.433 MHz Passed
Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors. Actual 16777216 Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 512 MB. Actual 7999 MB Passed
Checking if this platform requires a 64-bit JVM. Actual 64 Passed (64-bit not required)
Checking temp space: must be greater than 300 MB. Actual 23959 MB Passed
Preparing to launch the Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp2/OraInstall2017-12-11_07-02-52AM
^[cLog: /tmp2/OraInstall2017-12-11_07-02-52AM/install2017-12-11_07-02-52AM.log

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