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"An unexpected error has occurred" error message shows up when a new user attempts to access Planning Analytics Workspace

Troubleshooting


Problem

"An unexpected error has occurred" error message shows up when a new user attempts to access Planning Analytics Workspace.
Error message while attempting to login to Planning Analytics Workspace

Symptom

1)New users receive "An unexpected error has occurred" error message while accessing the Planning Analytics Workspace url
2)Existing users can access Planning Analytics url without any issues.
3)Attempts to upload users through a csv file results in below mentioned error
  {"message" : "Failed to synchronize tenant"}   {"reason" : "An error occured while saving data to database.  Please check the data or the database connection."}

Cause

The issue is caused due to permission issues on the bss container volume.

Diagnosing The Problem

1)Everything works on the environment without any issues except addition of new users.
2)All the containers including bss loads up without any issues when Planning Analytics Workspace is restarted.

Resolving The Problem

1)Execute the below command on the server hosting Planning Analytics Workspace
  docker exec -u root -it bss chown -R pauser:pagroup /opt/harmony/bss/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/db
2)Restart the Planning Analytics Workspace services using .\paw.sh or .\paw.ps1 depending on the host operating system

Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
21 February 2020

UID

ibm13160713