installation failed vertica-7.2.3-0.x86_64.RHEL6.rpm CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)

pgalaktionov

Please advise how to fix.

 

[root@ny-vertica-rt log]# /opt/vertica/sbin/install_vertica --hosts ny-vertica-rt --rpm /root/vertica-7.2.3-0.x86_64.RHEL6.rpm --dba-user mydba --data-dir /opt/data/
Vertica Analytic Database 7.2.3-0 Installation Tool

>> Validating options...

Mapping hostnames in --hosts (-s) to addresses...
ny-vertica-rt => 10.192.1.78

>> Starting installation tasks.
>> Getting system information for cluster (this may take a while)...

Default shell on nodes:
10.192.1.78 /bin/bash

>> Validating software versions (rpm or deb)...

>> Beginning new cluster creation...

successfully backed up admintools.conf on 10.192.1.78

>> Creating or validating DB Admin user/group...

Successful on hosts (1): 10.192.1.78
Provided DB Admin account details: user = mydba, group = verticadba, home = /home/mydba
Creating group... Group already exists
Validating group... Okay
Creating user... User already exists
Validating user... Okay

>> Validating node and cluster prerequisites...

Error: Command failed on '10.192.1.78':
VERT_DBA_USR=mydba VERT_DBA_DATA_DIR=/opt/data/ VERT_DBA_HOME=/home/mydba VERT_DBA_GRP=verticadba /opt/vertica/oss/python/bin/python -m vertica.local_coerce
returncode = 1
System prerequisites failed. Threshold = WARN
Hint: Fix above failures or use --failure-threshold

Installation FAILED with errors.

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Error in Logfile related to Python error.

 

2016-06-30 13:03:39.831 installer/16529:0x7f469edaf700 [BashAdapter.execute] <INFO> <BashAdapter: root@10.192.1.78>: (rc=1) ['Traceback (most recent call last):', ' File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main', ' "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)', ' File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code', ' exec code in run_globals', ' File "/opt/vertica/share/eggs/vertica/local_coerce.py", line 215, in <module>', ' _lcMain()', ' File "/opt/vertica/share/eggs/vertica/local_coerce.py", line 212, in _lcMain', ' coerce.run()', ' File "/opt/vertica/share/eggs/vertica/local_coerce.py", line 88, in run', ' halted = self._run_to_halt()', ' File "/opt/vertica/share/eggs/vertica/local_coerce.py", line 93, in _run_to_halt', ' if self._iterate(x):', ' File "/opt/vertica/share/eggs/vertica/local_coerce.py", line 109, in _iterate', ' self._last_observers = verify.run()', ' File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vertica/local_verify.py", line 97, in run', ' return self.run_classes(vertica.platform.node.get_all_check_classes())', ' File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vertica/local_verify.py", line 120, in run_classes', ' factory.finish()', ' File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vertica/shared/classrunner.py", line 201, in finish', ' observer.finish()', ' File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vertica/platform/observers/check/xmloutput.py", line 128, in finish', ' self._outfile.write(testsuite.unicode())', ' File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/py/_xmlgen.py", line 54, in unicode', ' SimpleUnicodeVisitor(l.append, indent).visit(self)', ' File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/py/_xmlgen.py", line 127, in visit', ' visitmethod(node)', ' File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/py/_xmlgen.py", line 159, in Tag', ' self.visit(x)', ' File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/py/_xmlgen.py", line 127, in visit', ' visitmethod(node)', ' File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/py/_xmlgen.py", line 159, in Tag', ' self.visit(x)', ' File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/py/_xmlgen.py", line 127, in visit', ' visitmethod(node)', ' File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/py/_xmlgen.py", line 159, in Tag', ' self.visit(x)', ' File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/py/_xmlgen.py", line 127, in visit', ' visitmethod(node)', ' File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/py/_xmlgen.py", line 159, in Tag', ' self.visit(x)', ' File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/py/_xmlgen.py", line 127, in visit', ' visitmethod(node)', ' File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/py/_xmlgen.py", line 133, in __object', ' self.write(escape(unicode(obj)))', "UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)"]

Rahul_Choudhary

Hi

 

Can you run below install command with "no-system-checks" and let us know if it still fails?

 

$/opt/vertica/sbin/install_vertica --hosts ny-vertica-rt --rpm /root/vertica-7.2.3-0.x86_64.RHEL6.rpm --dba-user mydba --data-dir /opt/data/ --no-system-checks

 

 

Thanks

Rahul Choudhary

 

pgalaktionov

HI Rahul

With  --no-system-checks installation completed successfully, thanks a lot for help.