Intermittent J2SE detection and bootstrap issues in install wrapper on Linux. (6172980)

The setup executable that launches the Linux installer sometimes hangs. Instead of resolving the J2SE location and starting the install wizard, the wrapper hangs and returns the following messages:

Chcking available disk space....
Checking Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment....
Extracting Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment....
Deleting temporary files.....

This issue is seen only in some versions of Linux, and seems to depend on environment settings, especially the presence of the JAVA_HOME variable.

Solutions

To work around this issue:

To work around the bootstrap issues on Linux

1. Unset the JAVA_HOME variable by running unset or unsetenv depending on your shell.

2. Run setup with the -javahome option to specify the JAVA_HOME used by the installer.