PRVF-0002 Could not retrieve local nodename - Oracle11g - OEL6 - OVM

Encountered this error while installing Oracle Database 11gR2 ??

Here is how i was able to fix this


Standard file hosts

[root@dbsrv Desktop]# cat /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6 

To solve the error above you need to point loopback address to the machine hostname.

[root@dbsrv Desktop]# vi /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1   dbsrv dbsrv.localdomain 
::1         dbsrv dbsrv.localdomain  
192.168.56.102 dbsrv dbsrv.localdomain


.. ready to execute ./runInstaller