On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to install IBM DB2 V7.1 on a pretty much clean installation
> of Mandrake 7.1, and hitting a few problems.
>
> Initially, the install (db2setup) failed because it couldn't find db2. I
> manually added the /usr/IBMdb2/V7.1/bin directory to the path, then re-ran
> the installer. The log file is at
> http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~jcs97/db2setup.log
>
> The latest thing I've tried is:
>
> 1) Installing the rpms using db2_install
> 2) Manually creating users for the db2, db2fenc and db2admin instances
> 3) Following the instructions in the "Quick Beginnings for Linux" guide to
> set-up the instances
>
> When I do this manually I get the same result as in the log file :-( :
>
> SQL10007N Message "-1390" could not be retrieved. Reason code: "2".
>
> According to the IBM docs, this indicates a problem with file permissions,
> so I tried chown'ing the contents of the ~db2/sqllib directory to db2.db2.
> This fixed the above error, but now I get a much more obscure one. When I
> try to start the the instance (or the administration server) the "db2star2"
> program hangs (have to kill -9).
>
> IBM don't seem too forthcoming with their assistance, anyone here got any
> ideas?
>
> J-P Smith
I've installed DB2 7.1 on several Red Hats and several Mandrakes. Issues remain
fairly consistant. Create your database then go to ./v7.1/bin and run
db2icreat to create a new instance. It seems that the creation of a default
instance always seems to fail in the installer.
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