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MF Vertica 10.1.0 Installation error
iddpanganiban
Community Edition User
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
0
Answers
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
https://www.vertica.com/docs/10.1.x/HTML/Content/Authoring/InstallationGuide/BeforeYouInstall/BASHShellRequirements.htm
Hi Sir @Jim_Knicely and Sir @mosheg,
Thanks for the response will try this and give you an update.