adminTools MemoryError when launching

Products

• CA Infrastructure Management
• CA Performance Management - Usage and Administration

Issue/Introduction

After installing vertica and rebooting the system the following error was seen when launching adminTools

# /opt/vertica/bin/adminTools
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/vertica/bin/adminTools", line 4, in <module>
    import vertica.tools.ATMain as AT
  File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vertica/tools/ATMain.py", line 17, in <module>
    from vertica.utils import dialog
  File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vertica/utils/dialog.py", line 69, in <module>
    import vertica.shared.logging
  File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vertica/shared/logging.py", line 9, in <module>
    import pyinotify
  File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyinotify-0.9.6-py2.7.egg/pyinotify.py", line 85, in <module>
  File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 555, in <module>
    _reset_cache()
  File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 279, in _reset_cache
    CFUNCTYPE(c_int)(lambda: None)
MemoryError

Environment

Issue was seen on CAPM 3.7 installed as a sudo user

Cause

selinux

Resolution

Permanently turn off selinux.  The following URL will walk you through how to permanently turn off selinux

Disable selinux

After following these steps you should now be able to successfully launch adminTools