OBIEE 12c: "Initial heap size set to a larger value than the maximum heap size" While Running the Configuration Assistant (Doc ID 2382113.1)

Last updated on JUNE 20, 2018

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Symptoms

You are installing OBIEE as per the instructions in Installing and Configuring Oracle Business Intelligence, but when you try to run the Configuration Assistant you get this error:

$ ./config.sh
Starting Fusion Middleware Configuration Wizard for BIEE
ORACLE_HOME set as <ORACLE_HOME>
BI_PRODUCT_HOME set as <ORACLE_HOME>/bi
PATH set as <ORACLE_HOME>/bi/bin:<PATH>
LD_LIBRARY_PATH set as <ORACLE_HOME>/bi/lib
INSTALL_PROPERTIES <ORACLE_HOME>/bi/../oui/mw/bi/metadata/config.properties
INSTALL_INVOCATION <ORACLE_HOME>/bi/bin/../../oui/bin/launch.sh -clone ORACLE_HOME=<ORACLE_HOME> -invPtrLoc <ORACLE_HOME>/oraInst.loc -J-Doracle.as.install.engine.weblogic.config.mode=true -J-Doracle.config.mode=true -J-Doracle.as.install.engine.install.properties.location=<ORACLE_HOME>/bi/../oui/mw/bi/metadata/config.properties -J-DSHIPHOME_STAGE_DIR=<ORACLE_HOME>/bi/../oui/mw/bi -paramfile /tmp/XXX-nnnnnnn
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Initial heap size set to a larger value than the maximum heap size

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