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Why does db2haicu fail with "Ensure that the cluster vendor wrapper library is root owned and the db2havend executable has suid root permissions. Refer to db2diag.log and DB2 Information Center for details." ?

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Why does db2haicu fail with "Ensure that the cluster vendor wrapper library is root owned and the db2havend executable has suid root permissions. Refer to db2diag.log and DB2 Information Center for details." ?

Answer


db2haicu tool fails with the following error :

"Ensure that the cluster vendor wrapper library is root owned and the db2havend executable has suid root permissions. Refer to db2diag.log and DB2 Information Center for details."

db2diag.log reports:

2013-08-27-14.56.55.884868-300 E4477E532           LEVEL: Error  
PID     : 5342                 TID  : 140737248044832PROC : db2haicu  
INSTANCE: db2inst1             NODE : 000  
FUNCTION: DB2 Common, SQLHA APIs for DB2 HA Infrastructure,  
sqlhaListCluster, probe:900  
MESSAGE : ZRC=0x800F044E=-2146499506=SQLO_ROOT_NEEDED "Root capability  
required"  
DATA #1 : String, 43 bytes  
Error initializing HA Vendor Infrastructure  
DATA #2 : String, 43 bytes  
/home/db2inst1/sqllib/lib64/libdb2tsa.so  
DATA #3 : Pointer, 8 bytes  
0x00007fffeb74e0e0

This is because the permission on files libdb2tsa.so, libdb2tsa.so.1, db2havend, db2havend32 are not set right. Please make sure that the files have the following permissions and are owned by the appropriate user ID :

-r-sr-xr-x  1 root   db2inst1 4642211 Apr  3 18:17 db2havend  
-r-sr-xr-x  1 root   db2inst1 3990657 Apr  3 18:17 db2havend32  

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Apr 11 13:10 libdb2tsa.so -> libdb2tsa.so.1
-r-xr-xr-x  1 bin  bin     152529 Mar 19 01:32 libdb2tsa.so.1

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Modified date:
16 June 2018

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