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db2icrt fails

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Question

Why does the db2icrt fail with ERROR: DBI1281E?

Cause

The db2icrt command fails with -

Initializing instance list :.......Success
ERROR: DBI1281E The database manager configuration file could not be
initialized.

In the trace file we see -

+ disp_msg_file=/opt/ibm/db2/V10.5L/instance/disp_msg
+ '[' '!' -f /opt/ibm/db2/V10.5L/instance/disp_msg ']'
+ tee -a /tmp/db2icrt_local.log.378
+ /opt/ibm/db2/V10.5L/instance/disp_msg 1 281
/opt/ibm/db2/V10.5L/msg/en_US.iso88591/db2install.cat 'DBI1281E The
database manager configuration file could not be initialized.\n'
+ stop_prog 1
+ set -x

This is caused due to permission errors on /tmp or the install path.

Answer

Changing the permissions - chmod -R 777 on /tmp and install path will overcome this error.

Related Information

db2icrt command

[{"Product":{"code":"SSEPGG","label":"Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU058","label":"IBM Infrastructure w\/TPS"},"Component":"--","Platform":[{"code":"PF002","label":"AIX"},{"code":"PF010","label":"HP-UX"},{"code":"PF016","label":"Linux"},{"code":"PF027","label":"Solaris"}],"Version":"9.7;10.1;10.5","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB10","label":"Data and AI"}}]

Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21999061

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