Oracle Client Installer hangs at Copying files

Problem:

Oracle Client Installer hangs when installing, also happens with Oracle Database Installer / Universal Installer.

Applicable to Ora10g, Ora11g, Ora12c. Edit: Not sure about Ora18c and Ora19c.

OUI  hangs at Copying files for 'Oracle Notification Service', mine was 58%.



installActions log stuck at
attributeName = local
UDPFlag = null

In .err log

Exception in thread "Install API Thread" java.lang.StackOverflowError
        at java.io.StreamTokenizer.nextToken(StreamTokenizer.java:556)
        at java.io.StreamTokenizer.nextToken(StreamTokenizer.java:731)
        at java.io.StreamTokenizer.nextToken(StreamTokenizer.java:731)
        at java.io.StreamTokenizer.nextToken(StreamTokenizer.java:731)
        at java.io.StreamTokenizer.nextToken(StreamTokenizer.java:731)

Approach:

Stack overflow in Java VM due to too many comment lines (#) in /etc/services

  1. Edit /etc/services as root, remove unnecessary # lines, a lot of redundant "mailto" lines in /etc/services.
  2. Then run ./deinstall from your Oracle database / client installation directory.
  3. Remove the entire directory where Oracle database / client was installed using rm -Rf
  4. Run Oracle Installer again. Should be OK now. 
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