OpenACS Installation Installing the OpenACS kernel data model...
but within a second the answer : "done"
but nothing is installed.
A time ago i did an openacs fresh install using aolserver40r10 and postgresql-8.1.5 with the same tarball you are trying now
https://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download/one-revision?revision_id=456900
and the installation failed with this same behavior.
I found that problem was related with file packages/acs-kernel/sql/utilities-create.sql on postgresql-8.x.
Try to replace utilities-create.sql from your tarball with the same file from oacs-5-2 branch. Get this file from cvs:
http://cvs.openacs.org/cvs/*checkout*/openacs-4/packages/acs-kernel/sql/postgresql/utilities-create.sql?rev=1.5.2.1
and proceed to install.