During the installation of a Performance Management Data Repository Vertica Database with multiple nodes the install fails.
Running the dr_install.sh script after successful run of dr_validate.sh returns the following errors in the output of the install run, and in the install_log_install_<Date>_<Time>.log file.
>> Validating node and cluster prerequisites...
Error: Command failed on '<Node_IP>':
VERT_DBA_USR=pmdbadmin VERT_DBA_DATA_DIR=/drdata/data VERT_DBA_HOME=/home/pmdbadmin VERT_DBA_GRP=verticadba /opt/vertica/oss/python/bin/python -m vertica.local_coerce
returncode = -1
Error: Command failed on 'Node_IP':
VERT_DBA_USR=pmdbadmin VERT_DBA_DATA_DIR=/drdata/data VERT_DBA_HOME=/home/pmdbadmin VERT_DBA_GRP=verticadba /opt/vertica/oss/python/bin/python -m vertica.local_coerce
returncode = -1
System prerequisites failed. Threshold = WARN
Hint: Fix above failures or use --failure-threshold
Installation FAILED with errors.
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Enter password for root@x.x.x.x (3 attempts left):
Enter password for root@x.x.x.x (2 attempts left):
Enter password for root@x.x.x.x (2 attempts left):
Installation FAILED with errors
All supported Performance Management Releases
Two known causes have been observed generating this error.
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Shared /etc/mtab file
Work with the server team to remove the shared file and update autofs configurations to only mount what is needed on these servers.