Hi,

I can't manage to install DB2 v7 on SLES 8 (Suse Linux Enterprise Server v8).
Creating an instance always aborts with the same error.
db2setup.log contains:

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Command to be executed:

/usr/IBMdb2/V7.1/instance/dasicrt db2as

Output log of the above command:
DBI1281E The database manager configuration file could not be
initialized.

Explanation: An error occurred when attempting to initialize the
database manager configuration file. A DB2 Version 7 instance
could not be created or migrated.
[...]
DBI1079I Output is saved in the log file /tmp/dasicrt.log.19435.
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and that logfile says:

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Program name = db2idbm
Instance home dir = /home/db2inst1, Sysadm group = db2iadm1
Instance type = 3, Auth type = SERVER

SQL5005C System Error.
Update DBM cfg SYSADM_GROUP errcode = 8
DBI1281E The database manager configuration file could not be
initialized.
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Users and groups seem to be created correctly.
And I've set /proc/sys/kernel/msgmni to 1024 (that was one of the suggestions
I found).

Any ideas how to solve the problem?

Thanks

Chris,

you need to set
kernel.sem = 250 32 32000 1024
kernel.shmmax=1024

as well. I think more this is an issue with the /etc/services file as we
have seen earlier.

Boris

"ChrisA" <cc_delete_this@noisetime.com> wrote in message
news:3f2e9583$1@news.uni-rostock.de...
> Hi,
>
> I can't manage to install DB2 v7 on SLES 8 (Suse Linux Enterprise Server
v8).
> Creating an instance always aborts with the same error.
> db2setup.log contains:
>
> -----
> Command to be executed:
>
> /usr/IBMdb2/V7.1/instance/dasicrt db2as
>
> Output log of the above command:
> DBI1281E The database manager configuration file could not be
> initialized.
>
> Explanation: An error occurred when attempting to initialize the
> database manager configuration file. A DB2 Version 7 instance
> could not be created or migrated.
> [...]
> DBI1079I Output is saved in the log file /tmp/dasicrt.log.19435.
> -----
>
> and that logfile says:
>
> -----
> Program name = db2idbm
> Instance home dir = /home/db2inst1, Sysadm group = db2iadm1
> Instance type = 3, Auth type = SERVER
>
> SQL5005C System Error.
> Update DBM cfg SYSADM_GROUP errcode = 8
> DBI1281E The database manager configuration file could not be
> initialized.
> -----
>
> Users and groups seem to be created correctly.
> And I've set /proc/sys/kernel/msgmni to 1024 (that was one of the
suggestions
> I found).
>
> Any ideas how to solve the problem?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>