solman Installation failed at step 9/37 phase of db instance installlation

[Former Member]

Hi Basis Gurus,

Need help on solman installation

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SAP System : Solution manager 4.0 Sr1 (New Installation)

Installation Type : Distributed Installation

OS : AIX 5.3 64 bit (5.3.0.50)

Database : DB2 9 LUW 64bit

Java : J 1.4.2, J2RE 1.4.2 IBM AIX 5L PowerPC 64 bit JVM

while performing database instance installation on database host at step9/37 (create database file system) got the following error message.

"Function DB6CreatePasswordFile: rc = <15>, error message <failed to setownership on password file directory

'/usr/sap/SM1/SYS/global'

chown <sid>adm:sapsys /usr/sap/SM1/SYS/global

failed to set ownership on password file

'/usr/sap/SM1/SYS/global/dscdb6.conf'

chown <sid>adm:sapsys /usr/sap/SM1/SYS/global/dscdb6.conf

password file '/usr/sap/SM1/SYS/global/dscdb6.conf' successfully written>.

ERROR 2007-04-07 18:25:05 [iax6bcomon.cpp:704]

CDB6Common::createPasswordFile(const map<iastring,iastring>&) lib=iamoddb6 module=CDB6Common

MDB-01000 Unexpected exception caught. Cannot continue.

TRACE [iaxxejsbas.hpp:460]

EJS_Base::dispatchFunctionCall()

JS Callback has thrown unknown exception. Rethrowing.

ERROR 2007-04-07 18:25:05 [iaxxgenimp.cpp:728]

showDialog()

FCO-00011 The step ExecuteDscdb6up with step key

|NW_Doublestack_DB|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|NW_CreateDBandLoad|ind|ind|ind|ind|9|0|NW_CreateDB|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|NW_DB6_DB|i

nd|ind|ind|ind|1|0|NW_DB6_CreatePasswordFile|ind|ind|ind|ind|7|0|ExecuteDscdb6up

was executed with status ERROR .

TRACE [iaxxgenimp.cpp:657]

showDialog() "

Steps performed.

checked with the permissions on usr/sap/SM1/sys/global/dscdb6.conf

The permissions are set to user:<SID>adm and group:sapsys

Every thing seem to be fine.

was able to create a test file under global directory.

Looks like there is no restrictions to any of the files in the global

directory.

LN

[Former Member]

After giving the application server root access to the database server the issue was resolved.

[DoloresCorrea]

Hello,

Please check the softlinks for dbg, profile and global if they are set up by

the installation correctly.

Re-link them and try again.

Hope this helps,

Dolores

[Former Member]

Hello,

Here are the steps I performed to resolve the permissions issue.

On the application server (sapdvsma) using smitty I performed the following steps. Selected communications applications and services > NFS > Network file system (NFS) > change or show attributes of the exported directory > selected the path of the exported directory ( in our case it is /sapmnt/SM1) > under hosts allowed root access gave the data base host name (sapdvsmd).

Then I started the installation and it went through.

[Former Member]

Hi Guys,

Had any one come across this error message, if so please reply to my message.

NS