SAP on OpenSuse Distribution

[Former Member]

Hello All,

For learning purpose, we have choosen OpenSuse Distribution.

We have successfully installed SAP Netweaver 7.3 on OpenSuse Linux in Distributed Environment.

When we logon to SAP we get below error message

Category               ABAP Server Installation and Administration Errors

Runtime Errors      START_CALL_SICK

Date and Time       08.10.2013 11:21:34

When, we run t-code SICK, then we get the following message

"The UUID daemon (uuidd) is not active (code 30256). Check SAP note 1391070."

As per SAP Note 1391070, we have UUID installed on our servers (In both Database and Central Instance).

was latest available via Internet uuidd-2.23.1-4.6.x86_64

When, we run the script "check-libuuid.sh" we get the following message in both servers (Database and CI)

[ check-libuuid.sh Revision : #17 $ Date : 2012/11/09 $ ]

ERROR: SuSE system, but no SLES

uuidd package: uuidd-2.23.1-4.6.x86_64

ERROR: uuidd is available, but inactive.

But, when, we check using command chkconfig uuidd, then, we see the service is running.

Please let us know, how to pass through this issue.

Thanks & Regards,

Ananda Swaroop G K

[michaelblickenstorfer]

Hey Ananda

Just made Sol. Man. 7.1 SP10 working on SAPDB and OpenSuSE.

The big thing about UUIDD was, that it was unstartable by init.d-script. Do the following - performing as root:

1. Edit permissions.local as you did before

2. systemctl enable uuidd

3. vi /usr/lib/systemd/system/uuidd.service

    > Change ExecStart=/usr/sbin/uuidd -q -T 0 -s /var/uuidd/request -p /var/uuidd/uuidd.pid

4. systemctl enable uuidd

5. systemctl start uuidd

Hope, this helps.

Greets, Michi

[fabian_herschel]

If it is really for learning purposes - why not downloading a SLES  11 SP3 or SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP3 media and using the free-of-charge 60 days free updates registration key?

Just go to www.suse.com select the product SLES for SAP Applications, use the download button and in parallel generate a (free) evaluation key.

As a benefit you get the "correct" distrubution to run SAP and your learning can include the distrubution and how SUSE with SAP  have worked on getting SAP running on Linux. This includes the automated start of uuid, sapconf which tunes the kernel parameters and even more.

[Former Member]

Hello Swaroop,

It is uuidd for SAP Installation.

    To solve the UUIDD problem during system consistency check,

    Please follow these steps,

Loign As root

uuidd-2.17.2-6.el6.x86_64.rpm install this RPM

Execute the Following COmmand -     service uuidd start

Execute the Following Command-     chkconfig uuidd on

It will solve the UUIDD.

[Former Member]

Hello All,

Sorry, I was on vacation. I couldn't able to update the last status on this issue.

The issue is with Shared memory. I believe, I have messed up with Shared memory parameters.

Thanks & Regards,

Ananda Swaroop G K

[Former Member]

Check uuidd process with ps command.

[fabian_herschel]

no better use

uudidgen -t

This generates a timebased uuid and this should fire the uuidd for 5 minutes.

But this is only been tested for the SLES product.

[sunny_pahuja2]

Hello,

What is your kernel version ? There is bug in kernel version which gives wrong information in transaction sick. Please upgrade your kernel to 7.20 to patch level 321 or higher (7.21: PL 33, 7.38: PL 3).

Have you run script attached to SAP note 1391070 to check whether uuid is working fine or not?

Thanks,

Sunny

[Former Member]

Hello Sunny,

I have already done this. You can find the same in my original message.

Thanks & Regards,

Ananda Swaroop G K

[sunny_pahuja2]

This issue seems to be related to NW 730 kernel as same issue exist in 720 kernel as well where solution was to update disp+work package. Could you please update the kernel of NW 731 to latest patch level ?

Thanks,

Sunny

[Former Member]

hi,

do setting as per below screen shot.also pls tell kernel version using command uname -a.

[Former Member]

Hello Kaushal,

The Kernel version is 

" 3.7.10-1.1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 28 15:06:29 UTC 2013 (82d3f21) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux "

Thanks & Regards,

Ananda Swaroop G K

[Former Member]

just check this kernel version is supported or not(in PAM),if not then create below file & start in compatability mode.which use kernel version 2.6 instead of 3.7.

#vi /etc/security/uname26

-----<snip>-----

sidadm

-----<snap>----

[Former Member]

Hello Kaushal,

I have done this, but it is not working.

Thanks & Regards,

Ananda Swaroop G K

[Former Member]

hi,

login as sidadm & provide output of uname -a