Originally posted by: the_smit

Hi,
I'm trying to install Sybase on a P550 server running AIX 5.3
Strangely I am getting this error:
00:00000:00000:2010/09/16 02:00:51.85 kernel Using config area from primary master device.
00:00000:00000:2010/09/16 02:00:51.86 kernel Using 2000 file descriptors.
00:00000:00000:2010/09/16 02:00:51.86 kernel Could not get the server current working directory. Possible NFS problem. Future dump/load operations may fail.
00:00000:00000:2010/09/16 02:00:51.86 kernel getwd: can't open ..
00:00000:00000:2010/09/16 02:00:51.86 kernel Adaptive Server Enterprise/12.5.4/EBF 15434 ESD#8/P/RS6000/AIX 5.1/ase1254/2105/64-bit/FBO/Sat Mar 22 19:39:46 2008
00:00000:00000:2010/09/16 02:00:51.86 kernel Confidential property of Sybase, Inc.
What's the cause of this? Some other forums says that this is an AIX bug or problem. How can I fix this?

2> go
Password correctly set.
(return status = 0)
1> 01:00000:02209:2010/09/16 07:51:10.54 kernel Setting console to nonblocking mode.
01:00000:02209:2010/09/16 07:51:10.54 kernel Could not get the server current working directory. Possible NFS problem. Future dump/load operations may fail.
01:00000:02209:2010/09/16 07:51:10.54 kernel getwd: can't open ..
01:00000:02209:2010/09/16 07:51:10.56 kernel Could not get the server current
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Originally posted by: MarkTaylor

Make sure you have write permission for the user you are running the install as on the directory where you are installing Sybase would be a good start ..

Rgds
Mark Taylor
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Originally posted by: the_smit

Already checked the permissions and still the same error. I even recreated the very same mount point where sybase will be installed and double-checked permissions of newly created raw devices but still to no avail.
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Originally posted by: Srikrishan

>>kernel getwd: can't open ..

Is this what you get, or have you truncated this line.
Is there any error code mentioned in the above line?

-Sri
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Originally posted by: niella

Maybe some-one will find this message helpful. This problem is likely a setup issue that occurred when you created the file-system, due to permissions of the underlying mount-point.

If your application is installed on /apps/sybase, you can either unmount the file-system and fix it manually or perform the following change without incurring file-system downtime:

1. Create a /mnt directory if it does not exist.
2. Mount the parent file-system on a temporary location: mount /apps /mnt
3. Check the permissions of the underlying file-system /mnt/sybase. Set to root:system with 755 permissions if it is not: chmod 755 /mnt/sybase
4. Test if problem is resolved: su - SYBASE_USER; cd /apps/sybase; /bin/pwd

Regards,
Niel
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