MF Vertica 10.1.0 Installation error

iddpanganiban

We are trying to install Vertica version 10.1.0 in a Debian Linux 10 environment and we encountered this error

Vertica Analytic Database 10.1.1-0 Installation Tool

Validating options...

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

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

Error: Default shell on the following nodes are not bash. Default shell must be set to bash.
192.168.16.81 /bin/sh
Exiting...
Installation FAILED with errors.

Installation stopped before any changes were made.

Kindly help us to what we can do to resolve this issue

Thanks
Ironn

mosheg

First do: cat /etc/shells
And verify that "/bin/bash" is also listed there.

Login as root and do: vi /etc/passwd
Then replace "/bin/sh" to "/bin/bash" for root and dbadmin lines as shown in the below example.

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
dbadmin:x:1001:1001::/home/dbadmin:/bin/bash

Jim_Knicely

Fyi...

https://www.vertica.com/docs/10.1.x/HTML/Content/Authoring/InstallationGuide/BeforeYouInstall/BASHShellRequirements.htm

iddpanganiban

Hi Sir @Jim_Knicely and Sir @mosheg,

Thanks for the response will try this and give you an update.