Siteminder Error: performing semget() on ColdFusion Registry semaphore

Products

• SITEMINDER

Issue/Introduction

Siteminder PolicyServer installation fails with the below error message

Symantec_SiteMinder_Policy_Server_Install:

STDERR: Error: performing semget() on ColdFusion Registry semaphore:No space left on device
/tmp/972301.tmp/LoadRegKeys.sh: line 14: 31856 Aborted                 (core dumped) "/tmp/972301.tmp/smreg" LoadRegKeys "/disk/apps/policyserver/siteminder" "" "EN"

Environment

Siteminder PolicyServer:12.8 SP8 CR01

Operating System: RHEL  

Cause

The cause of the error message is environmental.

One possible cause in this case is that semaphores were not recycled, resulting in zombie semaphores with empty key values.

Resolution

Perform semaphore cleanup and shared memory cleanup using the commands below.

ipcrm -s semid

ipcrm -m shmkey

Alternatively, perform a server restart to clear the zombie semaphores if the above doesn't work.