aj wrote:
Being an engineer and mechanic as well a a programmer stuck with evaluating
this stuff, I did resort to the BMFH approach. Worked - but on three boxes
I'm getting the same result. At least now I can see the pattern and
problem: creation of the admin instance is failing. Really strange - the
control center opens and is apparently functional - I can add and make full
use of the client side functions.
Strange part is that while the Control Center refuses to acknowledge the
existence of the local instance (db2inst1 - I'm sticking the the strictly
default installation until I sort this out), a command line db2 session not
only recognizes it, it allows access to the toolsdb database created by the
installation, is happy to create the sample database, and merrily runs the
scripts to migrate existing V7.2 databases. The main object of all this
messing around is to get off the OS/2 V7.2 server we have without cutting
off several OS/2 clients we can't change for a while.
I have all the logs, so now it's time to track down just what the error was
during installation and see what has to be done to fix it. It appears to
be a problem with groups and permissions while creating the admin instance.
At least, this gives me something interesting to do for a few days <g>.
FYI, the installation is wierd - no rpms show up. Brute force purging of
files as root, a long scan for references to db2 and db2inst1 and any
reference to the db2??? users and groups seems to finally clean up the
mess. Much different installation process than what I've seen with V7 or
V8.
Just a guess:
use rpm -e against all rpm -qa | grep db2 entries ??
HTH
aj
Will Honea wrote:
>Wanting to look at V9, I attempted to install Db2 Express-C on a Suse
Linux
box I use as a sandbox. Since I was less that thorough when removing
previous installations of V8 and V7, the installation failed creating the
admin server. I now have a phantom instance that I can't access or drop
so
the de_install fails but the installation is essentially useless. Is
there a reasonable way to remove all traces of V9 so that I can start
over?
--
Will Honea