Problem on installing Vertica on Ubuntu Server 14.04

sinorch

Hi all,

 

I’m having difficulties to install Vertica on top of Ubuntu server 14.04 in a Canonical Openstack environment.

I performed the necessary preparation steps. When I run install_vertica script, I get the following output:

 

 

root@vertica-ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# /opt/vertica/sbin/install_vertica --hosts 127.0.0.1 --deb /home/ubuntu/vertica_setup/vertica_8.0.1-0_amd64.deb

Vertica Analytic Database 8.0.1-0 Installation Tool

 

Error: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vertica/install/__init__.py", line 1338, in run_install

    options = option_parser()

  File "/opt/vertica/share/eggs/vertica/install/__main__.py", line 255, in _parse_options

    _include_ami_customization(parser, options)

  File "/opt/vertica/share/eggs/vertica/install/__main__.py", line 264, in _include_ami_customization

    cfg_checker.load()

  File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vertica/install/ami_install_config.py", line 18, in load

    self._meta_data.load(base_url)

  File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vertica/system/aws_metadata.py", line 74, in load

    self._harvest_metadata(meta_data_baseurl)

  File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vertica/system/aws_metadata.py", line 91, in _harvest_metadata

    meta_data_baseurl)

  File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vertica/system/aws_metadata.py", line 202, in _get_macs

    raw_macs = raw_macs.split()

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'

Installation FAILED with errors.

 

Installation stopped before any changes were made.

 

Then I search on the net about this error and one recommendation was to use “--ignore-install-config” switch and I tried it:

 

root@vertica-ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# /opt/vertica/sbin/install_vertica --hosts 127.0.0.1 --deb /home/ubuntu/vertica_setup/vertica_8.0.1-0_amd64.deb --ignore-install-config

Vertica Analytic Database 8.0.1-0 Installation Tool

 

 

>> Validating options...

 

 

Mapping hostnames in --hosts (-s) to addresses...

 

>> Starting installation tasks.

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

 

Default shell on nodes:

127.0.0.1 /bin/bash

 

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

 

 

>> Beginning new cluster creation...

 

successfully backed up admintools.conf on 127.0.0.1

 

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

 

Successful on hosts (1): 127.0.0.1

    Provided DB Admin account details: user = dbadmin, group = verticadba, home = /home/dbadmin

    Creating group... Group already exists

    Validating group... Okay

    Creating user... User already exists

    Validating user... Okay

 

 

>> Validating node and cluster prerequisites...

 

Prerequisites not fully met during local (OS) configuration for

verify-127.0.0.1.xml:

    HINT (S0151): https://my.vertica.com/docs/8.0.x/HTML/index.htm#cshid=S0151

        These disks do not have known IO schedulers: '/dev/vda1' ('vda') =

        'none'

    HALT (U9999): https://my.vertica.com/docs/8.0.x/HTML/index.htm#cshid=U9999

        Unexpected error: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'

 

System prerequisites failed.  Threshold = WARN

        Hint: Fix above failures or use --failure-threshold

 

Installation FAILED with errors.

 

****

AdminTools and your existing Vertica databases may be unavailable.

Investigate the above warnings/errors and re-run installation.

****

root@vertica-ubuntu:/home/ubuntu#

 

So as you can see from the output, installation is failing to start because of the same error, shown in yellow.

Can you help me on this matter?

SruthiA

Hi,

 

     Please set your IO Scheduler as below 

 

echo deadline > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler

 

 

Once you set the io scheduler, try to install vertica