sapinst crashed

[Former Member]

Hi

This is an issue I ran into installing Netweaver 2004s on AIX and Oracle.

sapinst crashed during the installation before the database installation step. Already, tried using the latest verison of "sapinst" utility (ver 701) but ran into the same issue. Any suggestions pls ?

Error message from sapinst.log

" iauxsysex.c:317:

child /tmp/sapinst_exe.565346.1196967301/sapinst (pid

81974) has crashed. Executable directory

is /tmp/sapinst_exe.565346.1196967301. Contact Support.

iaextract.c:814: child has signaled an exec error. Keeping

directory /tmp/sapinst_exe.565346.1196967301"

Thanks

Vic

[vincentlim826]

Hi Vic,

Typically this sapinst issue is due to AIX resources at OS level

I believe that it is problem of limits of stacksize, datasize and memory

Often a core occurs if the resource limits are to low, especially on

AIX. Depending on the shell you are using you can view and change the

limits using the limit or the ulimit command. If you change a limit the

new value holds only for the shell and processes started in this shell.

Hence if you change limits you have to do it in identically the same

shell process from which you start sapinst.

If you are using csh or tcsh run limit to view all limits. The limits

stacksize, datasize and memory are especially important. If they are

not yet unlimited you should set them to unlimited using the commands

limit stacksize unlimited

limit datasize unlimited

limit memory unlimited

Please verify the result using

limit

If you are using ksh or bash run

ulimit -a

to view the limits and

ulimit -d unlimited

ulimit -s unlimited

ulimit -m unlimited

to set the limits.

Please set also the coredumpsize to unlimited. It is even better if

you can also set all the other limits to unlimited.

By setting above, it should help to resolve the issue.

Also other typically recommendation for installation:

-- perform the installation locally by copying

the DVD files to local drive and run from there.

- usethe latest sapinst version

- there should be no space/permission issue in /tmp directory. If possible, set

777 chmod to /tmp directory.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Vincent