BRCONNECT error during SOLMAN 7.01 database import.

[Former Member]

Hello,

We have started with import of SOLMAN 701 SPS25 into a new system to perform a test upgrade before we go for our actual PRD upgrade.

ABAP and JAVA load has finished successfully and during post load activities phase and step 'Set Database password' we get below error.

This error looks like trying to encrypt the DB user password and fails with the error mentioned in the log.

Can someone throw some light on the issue.

Thanks.

Error log:

BR0828I Changing password for database user SAPxxx ...

BR0251E Function db_crypt_cc() failed at location password_change-7

BR0253E errno 256: CRYPT_OUTPUT_BUFFER_TO_SMALL

BR0832E Changing password for user SAPxxx failed

BR0280I BRCONNECT time stamp: 2013-05-27 13.23.14

BR0804I BRCONNECT terminated with errors

System specification:

SAP SOLMAN 701 SPS25.

DB: Oracle 10.2.0.4.0

OS: LINUX RHEL 9.0

Regards,

Yoganand.V

[former_member206552]

Hi Yoganand

Have you tried executing brconnect with tracing enabled to supply more information ?

Note 29321 - Creating traces for BR Tools

Best Regards

Marius

[Former Member]

Hello Marius,

Thanks for the note.

I tried to set the trace value to 15 and retried the step by retrying the step through SAPINST but I cannot see any detailed log.

Normally when trace is set it creates a log in /oracleSID/sap* like sapreorg, sapcheck or saparch, but in this case it is through SAPINST so it creates a log file in name brconnect.log which does not have any information other than the logs which I have pasted above in my first thread.

Regards,

Yoganand.V

[former_member206552]

Hi Yoganand,

did you also restart sapinst ?

Best Regards

Marius

[Former Member]

Hello Marius,

Yes, I restarted SAPINST and still the same issue.

Regards,

Yoganand.V

[former_member206552]

Hi Yoganand,

does it not maybe supply more information in the sapinst_dev.log ?

does any of these maybe help ?

http://scn.sap.com/thread/1181720

http://www.se80.co.uk/sapfms/d/db_c/db_crypto_password.htm

http://benxbrain.com/en(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/index.do?onInputProcessing=brai_thread&001_thread_id=12440...

does this happend when you trying to set a password in sapinst menu or during the installation phase it self ?

Kind Regards

Marius

[Former Member]

Hello Marius,

I have checked those links already but they did not help.

sapinst_dev.log has nothing more on the error, it asks to check the log file 'brconnect.log' which has only the lines which I have posted in my question.

This issue arrives during the post-load activities step and not during input phase.

Regards,

Yoganand.V

[former_member206552]

Hi Yoganand

and if you manually run brconnect to change the password, does it work ?

[Former Member]

Hello Marius,

Yes, it works when setting password manually.

I started sapinst with SAPINST_SET_. STEPSTATE=TRUE and tried to ignore the step 'setOraclepassword' but I'm not able to ignore it, when I right click on the step it is not giving any option to ignore and continue.

Regards,

Yoganand.V

[former_member206552]

Hi Yoganand

You can most properly skip the step by editing the control.xml file but I'm not able to tell you which string to search for as i currently fo not have a control.xml file.

if you have time you can make a backup of the file and test.

Best Regards

Marius

[Former Member]

Hello Marius,

Thanks for the suggestion, but there is way to skip the error step following option with sapinst.

I have started sapinst with below option and it now skipped the error step and moved to next step.

./sapinst SAPINST_SKIP_ERRORSTEP=true

Editing control.xml file also does the same which is a tedious task to do manually.

Regards,

Yoganand.V

[former_member206552]

Hi Yoganand,

Yes it is, but as a last resort to not restart the whole sapinst,, its worth it

Thank you for the infromation glad the problem is solved,

please close the tread

Best Regards

Marius

[Former Member]

Hi Yoganand,

It seems that the brconnect make a C call at application server level. First of all update R3trans, R3load and tp executables at the SAP marketplace.

To find out root cause you can execute DB_CRYPTO_PASSWORD on SE37 and see the result. Try to execute this FM with the same and different passwords and check whether the result is same.

Best regards,

Orkun Gedik

[Former Member]

Hello Orkun,

I have upgraded R3load,tp and R3trans to latest as per kernel version but no luck.

Since the instance is not yet built by SAPINST I cannot check the Function module which you have provided.

Regards,

Yoganand.V

[Former Member]

To be sure, I am asking that did you updated sapinst?

Best regards,

Orkun Gedik

[Former Member]

Hello Orkun,

Yes, SAPINST is the latest.

Regards,

Yoganand.V

[Former Member]

Do you have another ABAP based system in your landscape? you can try to execute the FM with the password. Or try to give another password. Then you can change it after the installation.

Best regards,

Orkun Gedik

[Former Member]

Hello Orkun,

I'm not able to get you, can you please explain.

Thanks.

Regards,

Yoganand.V

[Former Member]

Try to give a simple password during the installation. After the installation has been finished successfully, you can change the password.

Best regards,

Orkun Gedik

[Former Member]

Hi

did you tried already to update dbatools?

Let me know

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[Former Member]

Hello Andrea,

I have upgraded BRTOOLS to 720 release and patch 31 but no luck, still the error remains.

Regards,

Yoganand.V