Error during installation ECC6 on Linux with MaxDB

[Former Member]

Hi,

while installing ECC6 on SLES10 i sapinst can't do the "Start Instance Job". On sapinst log i can find:

Execution of command "/usr/sap/BER/sys/exe/run/startsap all DVEBMGS01 berp finished with return code 0. Output: Warning: Could not fount virtuell host in ifconfig list

Output of /sbin/ifconfig:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:21:C4:07

inet addr:192.168.1.12 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe21:c407/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:9733 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:8659 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:658286 (642.8 Kb) TX bytes:2916690 (2.7 Mb)

Base address:0x2000 Memory:d8920000-d8940000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback

inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1

RX packets:7754 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:7754 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:8009220 (7.6 Mb) TX bytes:8009220 (7.6 Mb)

I tried to add manually this interface by running this command:

sudo ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.1.13 up

After this in /sbin/ifconfig i can also find:

eth0:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:21:C4:07

inet addr:192.168.1.13 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

Base address:0x2000 Memory:d8920000-d8940000

Unfortunetly it didn't help either. Next thing i done was add extra host in /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.2 berp.domain.local berp

192.168.1.12 berp.domain.local berp

192.168.1.13 vberp

Log in dev_w0:

-

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trc file: "dev_w0", trc level: 1, release: "700"

-

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*

• ACTIVE TRACE LEVEL 1

• ACTIVE TRACE COMPONENTS all, MJ

*

M sysno 01

M sid BER

M systemid 390 (AMD/Intel x86_64 with Linux)

M relno 7000

M patchlevel 0

M patchno 144

M intno 20050900

M make: single threaded, Unicode, 64 bit, optimized

M pid 5191

M

M

M Fri Jun 12 13:29:30 2009

M kernel runs with dp version 232000(ext=109000) (@(#) DPLIB-INT-VERSION-232000-UC)

M length of sys_adm_ext is 576 bytes

M ***LOG Q01=> ThInit, WPStart (Workproc 0 1 5191) [thxxhead.c 1281]

M ThInit: running on host berp

*

• ACTIVE TRACE LEVEL 2

• ACTIVE TRACE COMPONENTS all, MJ

*

M -

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C-STACK -

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(CTrcStack2+0x78)[0x6b7778]

(CTrcStack+0xb)[0x6b7d7b]

(DpTrcOnOff+0x432)[0x4dd632]

/lib64/libpthread.so.0[0x2b3375bce140]

M -

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M Fri Jun 12 13:29:32 2009

M ThPrivInit o.k.

M ThSysUsrCheck (1,1): check system user T0/U1/M0

M ThIEmFree: em state of T0/M0 (em_hdl=-1) is DP_EM_NO_CONTEXT

M ThSysUsrCheck: clear T0

M DpITmSlotClear: clear slot 0

M Fri Jun 12 13:30:47 2009

M DpSigInt: caught signal 2

M SigICallExitRoutine: call exithandler (ThSigHandler)

M ThSigHandler: call ThErrHandle

M in_ThErrHandle: 1

M ThSigHandler: signal (step 1, th_errno 11, action 2)

M ThIErrHandle: new stat of W0 is WP_SHUTDOWN

M ThIErrHandle: I'm during shutdown

M PfStatDisconnect: disconnect statistics

M ThIErrHandle: action changed to 2

M Entering ThSetStatError

M ThShutDownServer: shutdown server

I also tried to run startsap command and it worked - SAP started without any problems, but sapinst is still throwing the error.

Any suggestions?

[markus_doehr2 · Accepted solution]

> while installing ECC6 on SLES10 i sapinst can't do the "Start Instance Job". On sapinst log i can find:

> M -

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C-STACK -

---

> (CTrcStack2+0x78)[0x6b7778]

> (CTrcStack+0xb)[0x6b7d7b]

> (DpTrcOnOff+0x432)[0x4dd632]

> /lib64/libpthread.so.0[0x2b3375bce140]

> M -

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> I also tried to run startsap command and it worked - SAP started without any problems, but sapinst is still throwing the error.

The application halts in a very early state.

How does your /etc/sysctl.conf look like?

Is this SLES 10 without any service pack??

Markus

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi

/etc/sysctl.conf:

1. Disable response to broadcasts.

2. You don't want yourself becoming a Smurf amplifier.

net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1

1. enable route verification on all interfaces

net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1

1. enable ipV6 forwarding

#net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding = 1

And yes, it's SLES 10 without any SP:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64)

VERSION = 10

[markus_doehr2 · Accepted solution]

> /etc/sysctl.conf:

<...>

You're missing important kernel parameters. On SuSE they come with package suse-sapinit. This would explain why the kernel is not even able to even allocate a small chunk of shared memory.

Read

Note 171356 - SAP software on Linux: Essential information

> And yes, it's SLES 10 without any SP:

> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64)

> VERSION = 10

I highly suggest updating the latest release (SP2 + online patches).

Markus

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Well, it's strange because i have already installed sapinit packages. Can i reinstall those packages or should i reinstall whole SAP?

[markus_doehr2 · Accepted solution]

Yes - because that package changed. To get the actual one I highly suggest (again) to install SP2.

Markus

[Former Member]

Ok,

i'm going to update to SP2 and i will write the result of this operation.

[Former Member]

Ok, i have finished the installation without installing SP2.

But i don't still know exactly what caused the issue. I did two things:

1) In the /etc/hosts i had line that looked like this:

127.0.0.2 myhost

According to the note, i did a mistake because when i was installing SLES i have changed hostname.

I have changed the address to correct one: 127.0.0.1

2) I have reinstalled sapinit - I looked to file that we were talking earlier - nothing changed.

So i think it was the issue with hostname. I hope this will help someone in the future.

Thanks for helping me!