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Linux for Newbies: Installing ABAP AS 7.50 on Oracle VirtualBox

NOTE: ASE license expiry

 

New ASE license, valid until Q1 2019 is available in this blog post: ASE License Blog. Please see the instructions below for the correct procedure.

 

Linux for Newbies

So, you want to install a developer edition of a SAP NetWeaver ABAP AS. It should sit on a Linux distribution, in a virtual box.
However, you’re a Linux newbie.
FEAR NOT!
We have created a genuine, step-by-step guide, with loads of screenshots to help you on your way.
In this example, we will focus on the openSUSe distribution.

This guide is part of a series for anyone who wants a free trial version of an SAP NetWeaver ABAP AS. To find out more about this whole series, see SAP NW 750 SP2 ABAP AS Available to Download!

A. Preparation

  1. Download the latest released version of Oracle VirtualBox from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads for your Operating system.
  2. Download openSUSE Leap 42.1 in your local machine (64 bit, released version) from https://software.opensuse.org/421/en
  3. Make sure the relevant ABAP download files (“abap.rar”) are on your local hard drive.
  4. Download the correct version of the ASE license from this blog: ASE License Blog and store it on your local hard drive.

B. Create VirtualBox instance; install openSUSE:

    1. Start VirtualBox and create a new VirtualBox instance by clicking the New button:
    2. Enter the following values:
      • Name : MyVirtualLinux (for example)
      • Type : Linux
      • Version: openSUSE (64 bit) -> Next
      • Select Memory size : 6 GB  -> Next
      • Hard disk: Create a virtual hard disk now -> Next
      • Hard disk file type: VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) -> Next
      • Storage on physical hard disk: Dynamically allocated -> Next
      • File location and size: 100 GB
      • Choose Create.
    3. Again in the VirtualBox Manager, click on Start to start the VirtualBox:
    4. In the dialog that appears, navigate to the downloaded openSuse installation file which you downloaded in Step 2, eg openSUSE-Leap-42.1-DVD-x86_64.iso.Then select this drive, choose OK:
    5. Now choose Installation (using keyboard, not mouse):
    6. Important: Choose language and keyboard layout (test keyboard).
      NOTE: We have only tested the US English-language version. If you have problems, please use the English version.

      • Accept the License Agreement by choosing Next.
      • In Installation Options, leave the 2 options unchecked, and choose Next:
      • In Suggested Partitioning, choose Edit Proposal Settings and enter the following:
        • File System for Root partitionin: choose  Ext4 from the drop-down box.
        • Uncheck Propose Separate Home Partition
          (This step is needed so that SUSE installation creates only one drive but does not create 2 drives (Home and Extension) where Home has less space to continue the ABAP installation.)
        • (Optional: Enlarged Swap for Suspend – I left it unchecked.)
      • Choose Ok, -> Next
      • Select Region and Timezone -> Next
      • In Desktop Selection, choose GNOME desktop -> Next
      • Enter:
        • Your full name
        • (Create a ) User name
        • Create a Master password, confirm it -> Next
          (
          I ticked Use this password for system administrator and Automatic Login. Leave the authentication method and encryption method as they are.
          The password should be at least 7 characters.)
    7. IMPORTANT: In Installation Settings, do not choose Install yet! You need to make settings:
      Scroll down to find Firewall and SSH.

      • Disable Firewall
      • Enable SSH service:
    8. Click on Install and Confirm again to Install the Operating System.The Linux operating system will install (yes!)

C. Prepare openSUSE system for ABAP installation

In this section, we will make some settings in the openSUSE system to prepare it for the ABAP installtion: Proxy settings; extract the ABAP .rar files; automount the folder containing these .rar files; install the uuidd daemon; change the hostname; assign root privileges to the install script.

  1. If you have successfully installed the openSUSE operating system, you will see something like this:
  2. Boot up the system by choosing the first option, “Boot from Hard Disk.”Now, we just have these settings before we install the ABAP server.
  3. Change Proxy settings if you are behind a proxy:
    • Open Activities and enter “N” as the search term.
      The system returns something like this:
    • Choose Network.
      In the dialog that opens, choose Network Proxy, then choose Manual.
    • Change the http / https proxy settings according to your company requirements and set the port to 8080:
  4. Now we want to enter some commands using a tool called Xterm.
    (Background note: Technically speaking, we are interacting with the shell, a program that passes keyboard commands to the operating system. We are interacting with the shell using a terminal emulator, called Xterm. If these terms are unfamiliar, I would strongly recommend William Schotts’ The Linux Command Line (free PDF)).

    • Again, choose Activities, then enter “X” as the search term.
    • Choose Xterm.
    • Check used memory by typing df -h :

      Minimum space in home directory should 33 GB to avoud memory errors during installation. (In this example, mine is 92G, or 5%.)
  5. AND NOW…, it is time to download and extract the abap rar files to a local folder.
    First, so that the Linux system can access this folder, we need to register it for auto-mount.
  6. IMPORTANT: Make sure your Linux system is up and running.
    • Select the folder, then choose Settings, then choose Shared Folders.
    • Add a new folder to automount, by choosing the plus icon to the right:
    • In the dialog that appears, navigate to the folder that contains the ABAP installation.
    • Change the folder name to s4installer. (You will need to enter this folder name manually later, so using this alias is less error-prone than trying to remember the complete path.):
    • Choose OK, OK.
    • IMPORTANT: Reboot the Linux system.
  7. Now we are going to change some settings, before installing the uuidd daemon. This daemen provides universal unique identifiers – essential for creating database keys. (See SAP Note 1310037 for more details.)
    (Note: You only need to do this step if you are using a proxy.)

    • Open the system tool YaST (choose Activities -> enter “Y” as search term…).
    • Enter your root password (ie the one you use to log on to the Linux system.)
    • On the left, choose Software .
    • Scroll down on the right-hand side and choose Proxy.
    • CHange the http settings, tick Use same for all, then test proxy.
    • Choose OK, OK.
  8. Now we are going to install the uuidd daemon.
    • Still in YaST, scroll back up and select Online Update.
    • Open the Search tab, and and enter the search term “uuidd”, then choose Search.
    • Select “uuidd”, then choose Accept.
      YaST will install uuidd, then reboot.
    • End YaST.
  9. Now we are going to start the uuidd service in Xterm.
    • Open Xterm.
    • Start uuidd, by entering:  sudo service uuidd start 
    • Enter the root’s password.
      (
      Note: sudo = “superuser do” ie you need to be a superuser to execute this command. Thus you also have enter the root’s password.)
    • Check if the service has started by entering: sudo service –status-all |grep uuidd
    • Your Xterm will look like this:
  10. Now, still in Xterm we will change the hostname, by entering sudo vi /etc/hostname.
    • Insert the hostname by entering i (for “insert”). It should look something like this:
    • Save your changes by hitting the ESC key, then :wq (ie “colon”, “Write”, “Quit”)
    • Check by entering sudo cat /etc/hostname
    • Restart network by entering: sudo rcnetwork restart
    • Check that the hostname has changed by entering hostname
  11. Now we will map hosts to the new hostname.
    • Check the IP address by entering sudo ifconfig
    • Open the hosts file by entering sudo vi /etc/hosts
    • Using this IP address, add a new entry of the form:
      <IP address> <hostname> <hostname>.dummy.nodomain
      (Here it is: 10.0.2.15 vhcalnplci vhcalnplci.dummy.nodomain )
    • (To add a new entry, proceed as before:
      • Enter 
      • Enter  10.0.2.15 vhcalnplci vhcalnplci.dummy.nodomain
      • Hit ESC
      • Enter :wq
    • Save the file hosts
    • Check the changes by using the cat command: sudo cat /etc/hosts
  12. And now, we will assign root privileges, by entering sudo -i.
    • Enter the root’s password.
    • Navigate to the shared folder with the ABAP installation: cd /media/sf_s4installer
    • Change the access rights of the install script: chmod +x install.sh
  13. Finally, just before we install, we will ensure that we have the correct ASE license version. To do so, put the new .lic file, which you downloaded in section A above, in the same folder as the script file, using the name SYBASE_ASE_TD.lic . Do this after you have successfully extracted the ABAP .rar files. You do not need to edit the .tar files:

(Background: The .rar files for this version, 7.50, are now relatively old. However, only 7.50 supports SLT. Therefore, if you need SLT, you need to insert the correct ASE license version before you install.)

D. Install ABAP

  1. FINALLY, we run the installation, by entering the command ./install.sh

    • Read and accept the license agreement
    • When prompted for the OS users password enter your master password of the virtual Linux OS instance twice
    • Be patient, this will take a while…
    • If the installation is successful, you will see something like this:
  2. Ok, we’re almost done. We just need to enter the right proxy settings so that SAP GUI, ABAP in Eclipse etc can find your ABAP system:
    • In Oracle VirtualBox Manager, select the VirtualBox with the installed ABAP system on it, then choose Settings from the context menu.
    • From the left-hand menu, choose Network.
    • Open Advanced, then choose Port Forwarding.
    • In the dialog that appears, enter the following settings:
      Name Protocol Host IP Host Port Guest IP Guest Port
      HTTP TCP 127.0.0.1 8000 10.0.2.15 8000
      HTTPS TCP 127.0.0.1 44300 10.0.2.15 44300
      RFC TCP 127.0.0.1 3300 10.0.2.15 3300
      SAPGUI TCP 127.0.0.1 3200 10.0.2.15 3200

And that’s it! Hope this helps. Feel free to comment below.
We have also provided some additional info (admin, starting / stopping the server, created directories and users, etc) in the Concise Installation Guide.

Further reading:

The first thing to do is to make yourself familiar with the Linux command line (steps 17-21). I found the most helpful guide here:
The Linux Command Line, by William E Shotts, Jr (PDF)

For openSUSE support: openSUSE forums

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      Author's profile photo Cezary Kakowski
      Cezary Kakowski

      Hello Julie, Hi Everyone!

      First thing – thanks a lot for this really neat step-by-step guide!

      I’d be 100% pleased if it acutally worked for me.

      My problem, at first, was that even if i changed hostname to the one requested it prompted that it’s not complient with standard (after hitting hostname command it prompted the old hostame).

      Yes i was in sudo when changing – solution was simply restarting linux before proceeding with anything.

      But before i figured that out i tried with ./install.sh -s – error the same some guys reported – seemingly it couldn’t change “sa” database user password to other. I also tried with -g but stuck on SL Controller started (or whatever that is) and no action.

      Then i took second try:

      I formatted completely my Virtual OpenSUSE, then before changing anything related to SAP Installation i updated every package installed forcibly by Online update (You can pick all installed packages when prompt is popping up, also You can install uuidd by the way).

      Then (after proceeding all preparation steps) i tried to install it once again (this time i restarted machine after changing hostnames). This time name convention was checked correctly.
      So i wanted to install my instance with graphic option.

      After hitting ./install.sh -g it went out fine until i got a message that no GUI server is installed and it listens on port 21212. So i said “f* it”, let’s give it a try without -g.

      The same message popped out – impossible to change username. And without any switch in install command i got the same result – “sa” was the problem for the installer.

      I think i’ll continue to describe my struggles here, maybe it will help anybody.

      Cheers,

      Cezary

      Author's profile photo Cezary Kakowski
      Cezary Kakowski

      Okay i gave it another try:

      This time i applied advice from Radek (to supply password - step 21 - not necessarily from Linux itself, but use pattern - small and capitalized letters plus digits without any special characters).

      I think Step 21 is kinda misleading. I thought at first i have to supply my sudo username over there twice, whereas it's a SAP Admin and Database Admin pwd.

      Anyways:
      The same error message - cannot change password for user "sa".

      I can log into both account on Linux - Database Admin and SAP Admin but i cannot execute on SAP Admin isql command, but there's a possibility to apply this on Database Admin. Unfortunately there's some .NET exception occuring - it cannot get connection to database nodes.

      SAP is literally first bigger program i have problems installing.

      Wouldn't it be good to create some VHD with already installed and bootable version of correctly configured SAP Instance? I woudln't mind to download 50 gb file (in parts) from Your servers, still i have to download like 15 gb

      I think i will give up for some time installing SAP.

      Cheers,

      Cezary

       

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Cezary, Several users have had a problem with "sa". The following helped:

      1. Resources : at least 4, preferably 6 GB RAM ; 100 GB HD.
      2. To fix the issue, follow finals steps in the SAP note 1706410:

        Login as npladm

        isql -X -Usapsa -SNPL -w999
        use master
        go
        sp_helpexternlogin
        go
        exec sp_dropexternlogin SYB_JSTASK, sapsa
        go
        exec sp_addexternlogin SYB_JSTASK, sapsa, sapsa, '<new sapsa password>'
        go

      3. Copy the new licence file from link: New Sybase License  . Need to place this license file in /sybase/NPL/SYSAM-2_0/licenses/SYBASE_ASE_TestDrive.lic. Set the Ownership and Group as per manual attached in the link. 

      Do these help?
      Best wishes Julie.

      Author's profile photo Cezary Kakowski
      Cezary Kakowski

      Hi Julie!

      I left it for some time and started over now. Here's the deal. I think i'm just an idiot. I forgot about one simple thing - to install freakig 64 bit java on the Linux. After that installer worked like magic!
      You can consider adding this to Your tutorial. I feel really stupid now. I always thought Linux comes with Java by default.
      Sheesh.

      Best Wishes!

      Caesar

       

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Cezary,

      Thanks for your feedback. I don't think you're stupid!

      Props for owning up. I'll try to incorporate this.

      Best wishes Julie.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hello Julie,

      The installation stops (keeps waiting) at the following line. Am I missing anything during the installation? Please help.

      guiengine: No GUI server connected; waiting for a connection to host vhcalnplci, port 21212 to continue with the installation.

       

      Thank You

      Devidas

      Author's profile photo Rathan Kumar Nagathota George
      Rathan Kumar Nagathota George

      Hi Devidas,

      Restart your installation. Start fresh with your Suse Installation.

      Follow the below installation guide point to point.  

      https://sap.github.io/cloud-s4ext/week-1/unit-6/

      As the database license has expired. You'll see password failure issue.

      Take a snapshot at that point.

      New ASE license is available here: Use this as per the instructions. You should be a root user to copy the specified licence.

      Renew ASE License: SAP Document Center

      Now use ./install.sh -g option. From that point. Fresh installation is not necessary. If something fails you start your OS from the snapshot that you have taken.

       

      Author's profile photo Harald Wilde
      Harald Wilde

      on my OracleVM/SUSE the -g Option does not work. Without this option it was successfull. Another hint if you are new like me with Linux/SUSE: Download the new license File unzipped, without the .pdf file. I used the SUSE Firefox for that.

      Hmm, yesterday the new SUSE/SAP system was up and running and i have had access with SAP_GUI, But today it aborts after "startsap ALL" with message "no Profil found". Well... complete new Installation seems to be tricky. I will uninstall SAP/SUSE again like described here in blog and then try the installation guide provided by rathan.

      Rathan, please..Im not familar with rights in linux...

      How is the replacing done exactly? Last time i replaced it in XTERM with "su npladm" followed by "chown -v npladm licenses" and then copy with

      cp –i SYBASE_ASE_TestDrive.lic /sybase/NPL/SYSAM-2_0/licenses/

      Do i need to change rights after replacing it? Or something other to be done?

      Author's profile photo Rathan Kumar Nagathota George
      Rathan Kumar Nagathota George

      Hi Harald,

      On the logon screen when you login to Suse, switch user to root or enter root for user and login password. Ideally you are in the root now. Navigate to the said folders copy and paste the required licences. You have to change the rights after replacing the file. You can right click on the file and change the permissions. When you check the properties you'll see the details for a root user (default permissions). Change the users to the proposed names in the license file.

      Thanks and Regards,

      Rathan.

       

       

       

      Author's profile photo Harald Wilde
      Harald Wilde

      Many thanx for your reply. I made complete new installation from th eOpenSAP Guide (which is better) but No User=root  available at login screen. Nevertheless i replaced the license file with command… above. Replacing was successful, now checking the rights..

      Do i need JAva SAP-GUI on SUSE for the install -g command? Because installation hanging at that point: "No GUI server connected; waiting for a connection on host vhcalnplci, port 21212 to continue with the installation" ist doesnt semmed to be the license problem...

      Author's profile photo Harald Wilde
      Harald Wilde

      There are no users named in the license File “SYBASE_ASE_TestDrive.lic”. I found nice apllication called “”File Manager – Super User Mode”. I think this is a File-explorer with root rights. Propertiese of the “SYBASE_ASE_TestDrive.lic” show rights as follows (i think its alright) 

      I will try it again from snapshot before replacing the license file. Just to see what rights are there before replacing…

      -restore snapshot- and yes.. permissions before replacing are exactly the same. Must be other reason.

      Also this speaks for that these are the right permissions: Karl Kessler on Twitter

      Author's profile photo Harald Wilde
      Harald Wilde

      I think i got it now. Without the -g option. See my post earlier in this thread searching for "In case of complete new installation". For today it works after restarting. if i get again an error tomorrow i wil post it.

       

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Rathan,

       

      Greetings! Thanks for your help. I tried as per your instructions however I am still not able to complete the installation successfully. Do I need to start any GUI server in order to complete the installation. Because the installation stops and waits with the following details;  Appreciate your help!

       

      The GUI could not be started because the environment variable DISPLAY is not set. Please make sure that this variable is defined correctly or start the GUI on another host (for details please consult the installation guide)

       

      Starting GUIServer using:
      SAPinst port : 21212
      GUI autostart : off
      GUI mode : normal
      command : /tmp/sapinst_exe.10110.1500992629/jre/bin/java -Xmx512M -Dsap.env.var.javahome=SAPINST_JRE_HOME -cp "/tmp/sapinst_exe.10110.1500992629/JAR/instgui.jar" SDTServer "rootdir=/root/.sdtgui" config=jar:sdtserver.xml guiport=21212 -nolock -srvarg=/SAPinstService/host=127.0.0.1 -srvarg=/SAPinstService/port=pipe:5:8 guistart=off

      guiengine: 2017-07-25 19:53:57 Waiting for client connection (1)
      load resource pool /tmp/swpm/resourcepool.xml
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:00 PM [Info]: *************************
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:00 PM [Info]: Starting Server
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:00 PM [Info]: Reading server configuration.
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:00 PM [Info]: Reading service configuration SAPinstService.
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:00 PM [Info]: Configuring LogManager ...
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:00 PM [Info]: *************************************************
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:00 PM [Info]: Starting SL Controller listening on port 21212 ...
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:00 PM [Info]: StorageService switched off.
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:00 PM [Info]: Initializing SecurityManager ...

      guiengine: No GUI server connected; waiting for a connection on host vhcalnplci, port 21212 to continue with the installation
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:08 PM [Info]: Server certificate fingerprint is DD EE 1E B6 77 6C 6D 51 36 82 EA BB FB 3C 66 FC
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:08 PM [Info]: HTTPManager switched off.
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:08 PM [Info]: WebstartService switched off.
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:08 PM [Info]: RoleService switched off.
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:08 PM [Info]: AlertService switched off.
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:08 PM [Info]: NotesService switched off.
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:08 PM [Info]: ProcessService switched off.
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:08 PM [Info]: MIDService switched off.
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:08 PM [Info]: Starting FileService ...
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:08 PM [Info]: LogService switched off.
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:08 PM [Info]: MailService switched off.
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:08 PM [Info]: Starting services ...
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:08 PM [Info]: Starting service "SAPinstService" ...
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:08 PM [Info]: Service "SAPinstService" started
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:08 PM [Info]: Services started.
      Jul 25, 2017 7:54:08 PM [Info]: SL Controller started.

       

      Thank you

      Devidas

      Author's profile photo Rathan Kumar Nagathota George
      Rathan Kumar Nagathota George

      Hi Devidas,

      You don't have to start the GUI server.  When the Installation fails for the first time with password failure issue with an error something like this "“sa” database user password to other".

      Did you take  a snap shot at this point?

      If you saved it at this point, Restart your machine using this snapshot. Login as root user into your system. User Name: root password: <yourpassword>.

      Copy the new ASE licence as proposed in the file. Change all the user permissions as suggested.

      As you are already in root, navigate to the installation folder after mounting your folder with the installation files if your installation is on another folder.

      Do a /install.sh -g. After some time SAP Should launch a GUI window so that you can perform installation steps using the navigation and confirmation buttons on the screen.

       

      Thanks,

      Rathan.

       

      Author's profile photo Harald Wilde
      Harald Wilde

      Hi Rathan,

      Have you tried out the -g option by yourself on OracleVM/SUSE System with  a windows SAP-Gui? I tried it many times including waiting hours for the gui but without success. leaving the -g option -now, this day- seems to do it. After checking rights of the replaced  SYBASE license file and renewing SAP license in Transaction SLICENSE the same day like installation and without restarting the SAP.

       

      Author's profile photo Rathan Kumar Nagathota George
      Rathan Kumar Nagathota George

      Hi Harald,

      The server is installed on OracleVM/SUSE System.

      SAP GUI is installed on Mac.

      First time when I installed I did it without -g.

      After replacing the file I did it with -g.

      I have tried installing with -g option in SUSE. The installation has failed many times and I couldn't see the GUI Screen to finish the installation. After some n'th installation I got the SAP Guided Installation steps and it has finished successfully after I set the export DISPLAY=:0 value. I don't know what made the installation successful.

      Thanks and Regards,

      Rathan.

       

      Author's profile photo Harald Wilde
      Harald Wilde

      Hello,

      Concerning the -g option: Maybe this depends on the installation of the Java environment. If i remember right this is not described in detail here in Julies Blog. But in the openSAP Course it is, watch out here:

      UNIT 5, Step 1 “Installing Java 8 SDK”

      if i check here on windows console the java environment:

      Java Version with:  java -version –> OK

      Java-SDK with: javac -version –> its an unknown command

      by the way: Installation from before weekend is still running, including start/stop everything. Thanks again Rathan for the very valuable link to this OpenSAP Guide.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Rathan and Harald,

       

      I did fresh installation and followed all the steps as instructed by Rathan with one change as suggested by Harard (i.e. install without -g) and it worked!!!

      Thank you so much for your help. You guys are great. I am now able to connect to it from another PC as well.

       

      Thanks

      Devidas

       

      Author's profile photo Harald Wilde
      Harald Wilde

      Hi Devidas,

      Me too i want to have possibility to connect from another computer. I found some help here in the blog if you search by "how can i connect to my server from different computer". Two members answered. Have you followed the two answers, both? And.. do you found something else to do?

      Author's profile photo Praveen Singh
      Praveen Singh

      Hi George,

      Which version of openSUSE you are using? openSUSE version 42.1 which in mentioned in tutorial is outdated now and I am unable to install UUIDD components now.I have tried this with openSUSE version 42.2 / 42.3 but installation is failing.

      Please advise.

      Thanks,

      Praveen

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Rathan,

      Once again, can you explain what is missing in the guide, that is available in https://sap.github.io/cloud-s4ext/week-1/unit-6/ ? They should be the same, since I edited one and wrote the other. Thanks a lot Julie.

      Author's profile photo Taryck BENSIALI
      Taryck BENSIALI

      Hi,

       

      I've tryed to install this version on my CentOS 7 server that leads to server crash. So I decide to try this methods. I've done 3 times with or without SAP GUI but it leads to :

      ERROR 2017-08-01 19:31:18.525 (root/sapinst) [CInstallerCallBackImpl.cpp:259] id=ind-rel.ind-os.ind-db.assertionFailed errno=CJS-00030
      Assertion failed: Unable to generate a new password for database login 'sa'. Refer to trace file sapinst_dev.log for further information.

      ERROR 2017-08-01 19:31:18.526 (root/sapinst) [iaxxbjsmod.cpp:97] id=modlib.jslib.caughtException errno=MUT-03025
      Caught ESAPinstException in module call: Assertion failed: Unable to generate a new password for database login 'sa'. Refer to trace file sapinst_dev.log for further
      information..

      ERROR 2017-08-01 19:31:18.651 (root/sapinst) [CSiStepExecute.cpp:1107] id=controller.stepExecuted errno=FCO-00011
      The step syb_step_reset_db_passwords with step key
      |offlineadjustment_dialogs|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|offlineadjustment_db_post|ind|ind|ind|ind|db_post|0|syb_rename_db_post_dia|ind|ind|ind|ind|syb|0|NW_SYB_DB_REN|ind|ind|ind|ind|syb2|0|syb_step_reset_db_passwords
      was executed with status ERROR ( Last error reported by the step: Assertion failed: Unable to generate a new password for database login 'sa'. Refer to trace file sapinst_dev.log
      for further information.).

       

      This is not a linux issue but an installer issue... Any solution/help will be appreciated !!

      Author's profile photo Tobias Moeller
      Tobias Moeller

      Any news on this error?

      Author's profile photo Taryck BENSIALI
      Taryck BENSIALI

      I switch to OpenSuse VM because SAP installation has corrupted my User database and I had to reinstall CentOS....

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      This error is often caused by an outdated ASE license. Please download the correct license and PDF of instructions from here:

      Renew ASE License: SAP Document Center

      Best wishes Julie.

       

      Author's profile photo Alain Cyr
      Alain Cyr

      Hi,

      I followed step by step (except the proxy step which I don't use). Tried 5 times and finally end up with the same error every time...

      Assertion failed: Unable to generate a new password for database login 'sa'.

      Error No is CJS-00030

      I'm installing on Virtual Box 5.1.24r117012 (Qt5.6.2) on Windows 10.

      The OS in my virtual box is openSUSE 64 bit as mentioned in this blog.

      Anybody encountered the same error?

      Thanks in advance,

      Alain.

       

      Author's profile photo prasad badal
      prasad badal

      Same issue . Tried it  multiple times on personal (no proxy) Mac & win10 following instruction to the T with fresh Linux  install every time .

      look like install script errors that have been fixed in past releases that have cropped up again.

      here is the log of non info entries

       

      Prasad

      ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

      WARNING[E] 2017-08-05 12:15:39.222 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.network.getInfoFailed errno=FSL-03003
      Unable to determine parameter "DNS domain name". DNS domain name is not configured in resolv.conf (UNIX) or the registry (Windows) and neither getaddrinfo nor gethostbyname could retrieve it.

      WARNING 2017-08-05 12:15:39.226 (root/sapinst) id=modlib.jslib.caughtException
      Caught ::ESyException in module call: At line 241 file syxxcnwmgt.cpp
      Call stack:
      EJSController.cpp: 181: EJSControllerImpl::executeScript()
      JSExtension.hpp: 1136: CallFunctionBase::call()
      iaxxcnetwork.cpp: 129: iastring CIaOsNetworkConnect::callMemberFunction(iastring const& name, args_t const& args)
      iaxxcnetwork.cpp: 340: iastring CIaOsNetworkConnect::getDNSDomainName(args_t const& _args)
      iaxxbnetwork.cpp: 53: CIaOsNetwork::getDNSDomainName_impl()
      syxxcnwmgt.cpp: 157: iastring CSyNetworkMgtImpl::getDNSDomainName() const

      Unable to determine parameter "DNS domain name". DNS domain name is not configured in resolv.conf (UNIX) or the registry (Windows) and neither getaddrinfo nor gethostbyname could retrieve it.
      .---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

      INFO 2017-08-05 12:16:35.957 (root/sapinst)
      Execution of the command "/tmp/sapinst_exe.3060.1501949587/jre/bin/java -classpath /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/sybhelper.jar -Xmx256m portcheck 4901 4902 4903 4904" finished with return code 0. Output:
      checking port 4901
      could bind port 4901
      could not connect to port 4901
      checking port 4902
      could bind port 4902
      could not connect to port 4902
      checking port 4903
      could bind port 4903
      could not connect to port 4903
      checking port 4904
      could bind port 4904
      could not connect to port 4904

      INFO 2017-08-05 12:16:36.470 (root/sapinst)
      Execution of the command "/tmp/sapinst_exe.3060.1501949587/jre/bin/java -classpath /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/sybhelper.jar -Xmx256m portcheck 4901 4902 4903 4904" finished with return code 0. Output:
      checking port 4901
      could bind port 4901
      could not connect to port 4901
      checking port 4902
      could bind port 4902
      could not connect to port 4902
      checking port 4903
      could bind port 4903
      could not connect to port 4903
      checking port 4904
      could bind port 4904
      could not connect to port 4904
      --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.586 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/redhat_batang.ttf.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.613 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/redhat_dotum.ttf.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.629 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/redhat_gulim.ttf.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.669 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/redhat_hline.ttf.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.674 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/redhat_sazanami-gothic.ttf.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.685 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/redhat_sazanami-mincho.ttf.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.706 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/redhat_ukai.ttf.

       

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.719 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/redhat_uming.ttf.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.733 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/suse_batang.ttf.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.738 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/suse_dotum.ttf.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.771 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/suse_FZFangSong.ttf.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.776 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/suse_FZHeiTi.ttf.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.806 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/suse_FZKaiTiB.ttf.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.823 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/suse_FZKaiTi.ttf.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.839 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/suse_FZMingTiB.ttf.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.861 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/suse_FZSongTi.ttf.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.866 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/suse_gulim.ttf.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.871 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/suse_hline.ttf.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.901 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/suse_sazanami-gothic.ttf.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.906 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/suse_sazanami-mincho.ttf.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.911 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/suse_sgothic.ttf.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:18:48.930 (root/sapinst) id=syslib.filesystem.aclSetFailed errno=FSL-02007
      Unable to set access rights of /sybase/NPL/jre64/lib/fonts/suse_smincho.ttf

       

      ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:20:37.922 (root/sapinst) [CInstallerCallBackImpl.cpp:259] id=ind-rel.ind-os.ind-db.assertionFailed errno=CJS-00030
      Assertion failed: Unable to generate a new password for database login 'sa'. Refer to trace file sapinst_dev.log for further information.

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:20:37.923 (root/sapinst) [iaxxbjsmod.cpp:97] id=modlib.jslib.caughtException errno=MUT-03025
      Caught ESAPinstException in module call: Assertion failed: Unable to generate a new password for database login 'sa'. Refer to trace file sapinst_dev.log for further information..

      ERROR 2017-08-05 12:20:38.272 (root/sapinst) [CSiStepExecute.cpp:1107] id=controller.stepExecuted errno=FCO-00011
      The step syb_step_reset_db_passwords with step key |offlineadjustment_dialogs|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|offlineadjustment_db_post|ind|ind|ind|ind|db_post|0|syb_rename_db_post_dia|ind|ind|ind|ind|syb|0|NW_SYB_DB_REN|ind|ind|ind|ind|syb2|0|syb_step_reset_db_passwords was executed with status ERROR ( Last error reported by the step: Assertion failed: Unable to generate a new password for database login 'sa'. Refer to trace file sapinst_dev.log for further information.).

       

      Author's profile photo Taryck BENSIALI
      Taryck BENSIALI

      Fixed with new ASE license file.

      Follow my install guide for SAP NW 7.5 on OpenSuse VM : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6wlEuX4PvVXc1FkdmVzLUR6ZlU/view

       

      Author's profile photo Ahmed Syeda
      Ahmed Syeda

      Hi Taryck,

      Are there any changes to the new version installation i.e. 751-SP 02. If yes, could you please update this guide and let me know.

      TIA.

       

      Author's profile photo Taryck BENSIALI
      Taryck BENSIALI

      No changes, as far as I know. I've got 7.51 installed with this install guide but I can't remember if it's SP02. However I don't really think it's matters for the install

      Author's profile photo Ahmed Syeda
      Ahmed Syeda

      Thanks Taryck.

       

      Author's profile photo SOPRA Taryck Bensiali
      SOPRA Taryck Bensiali

      @Julie Plummer

      Could you retry installation on opensuse as you did it when build this guide, because it doesn't work now. We are many with the same issue on sa password generation (event with -g option) and I've ask to a friend who has succeed months ago and he tried several times and failed with the same issue !

       

      I guess that because the install files are a little too old installation fails.

       

      Could you please provide support and answer to this major issue ?

       

      Thanks in advance for your answer.

       

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Taryck,

      Most people with this issue have had an outdated license.

      Due to community feedback, we have had to focus on the new version, 751, for Teched.

      This is now available here (with valid license):

      https://blogs.sap.com/2017/09/04/sap-as-abap-751-sp02-developer-edition-to-download/ 

      For that reason, we  were unable to rebuild the whole package with the new license.

      Should I provide more extensive step-by-step docu for this, or are you happy with the docu?
      Thanks for your feedback,

      Julie.

       

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi there,

      Same goes for me, I retried after a successful instalation  before licence expiry.

      But now installation failed on SA password modification. I tried with and without complex password with max 8 car.

       

      Please fixe the installation files.

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      As above: Have you tried installing the new license:

      Renew ASE License: SAP Document Center

      (This SAP Document Center folder includes instructions.)

      Does this help?
      Best wishes Julie.

       

      Author's profile photo SOPRA Taryck Bensiali
      SOPRA Taryck Bensiali

      This is confirmed by log files :

      SySAM: Using licenses from: /sybase/NPL/SYSAM-2_0/licenses/SYBASE_ASE_DE.lic:/sybase/NPL/SYSAM-2_0/licenses/SYBASE_ASE_TestDrive.lic:/sybase/NPL/SYSAM-2_0/licenses/SYBASE_ASE_XE.lic
      SySAM: Failed to obtain license(s) for ASE_CORE feature from license file(s) or server(s).
      SySAM: Licenses exist for ASE, but a license containing the configured (PE=EE;LT=AC) attributes could not be obtained. Verify that ASE is configured to use the correct type of license, and either reconfigure; or generate and deploy the desired license from the Sybase Product Download Center.
      SySAM: Feature has expired.
      SySAM: License feature name: ASE_CORE
      SySAM: Expire date: 30-jun-2017
      SySAM: License search path: /sybase/NPL/SYSAM-2_0/licenses/SYBASE_ASE_DE.lic:/sybase/NPL/SYSAM-2_0/licenses/SYBASE_ASE_TestDrive.lic:/sybase/NPL/SYSAM-2_0/licenses/SYBASE_ASE_XE.lic:
      SySAM: FlexNet Licensing error:-10,32
      SySAM: For further information, refer to the Sybase Software Asset Management website at http://www.sybase.com/sysam
      There is no valid license for ASE server product. Installation date is not found or installation grace period has expired. Server will not boot.

       

      Author's profile photo Igor Kompas
      Igor Kompas

      Hello,

      I am unable to generate license via https://go.support.sap.com/minisap/ web page. Page seems to be down. Does anybody have some problem or is there alternative web page that can be used?

      Thanks,

      Igor

      Author's profile photo Taryck BENSIALI
      Taryck BENSIALI

      I'had to switch on Chrome no file generated on FireFox

       

      Author's profile photo Jamps Nugpatz
      Jamps Nugpatz

      Hello Everyone!

      Honestly, this NPL Failed error starts to get into my nerves as I’ve been trying to work on the installation for almost a week now.

      I would like to seek for your kind help to solve this issue. Please anyone could enlighten me what to do. Thank you in advance guys!

      (see attachment)

       

      reating file /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/instslana.xml.

      a /tmp/sapinst_exe.9359.1502618651/dev_selfex.out
      a /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/control.xml
      a /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/controllerKdbClient.dmp
      a /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/date.log
      a /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/df.log
      a /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/hostname.log
      a /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/instana.xsl
      a /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/keydb.xml
      a /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/rpm.log
      a /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/rsecssfx.log
      a /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/sapinst.log
      a /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/sapinst_dev.log
      a /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/sapinst_loginquirer.log
      a /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/start_dir.cd
      a /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/stepKeydbClient.dmp
      a /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/syslib_priv.log
      INFO 2017-08-13 22:06:56.863 (root/sapinst) [syuxccuren.cpp:540] id=syslib.process.currentProcessEnv.cwdSuccessful CSyCurrentProcessEnvironmentImpl::setWorkingDirectory(const CSyPath& /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD)
      Working directory changed to /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD.

      ################################################
      Abort execution because of
      Step returns modlib.jslib.caughtException
      ##############################################

      Installation of NPL failed, please check logifiles in /tmp/sapinst_instdir for possible root cause.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi John,

      The installation of NPL is failing because, the Sybase ASE Database license that exists in the rar files in https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#abap (from where we are downloading the SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP Developer Edition), has expired.

      So what we need to do, is as follows –

       

      • After unzipping the rar files for SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP Developer Edition, downloaded from https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#abap go to folder “server/TAR/x86_64” and take the file “dbexe.tgz-aa“. Untar the file “dbexe.tgz-aa” and in the folder “sybase/NPL/SYSAM-2_0/licenses“, replace the existing Sybase ASE Database license (file SYBASE_ASE_TestDrive.lic) with the new licence file downloaded in previous step.

       

      • Tar the folder again to “dbexe.tgz-aa” file and replace the existing “dbexe.tgz-aa” file with the new one.

       

      • Use this new folder for SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP Developer Edition, for uploading in the VirtualBox and follow the remaining steps as-is.

       

      @Julie – Can you please ask the relevant team in SAP to update the new Sybase ASE Database license in the rar files in https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#abap, so that everyone do not need to do the above steps.

       

      Thanks,

      Indrajit Chakraborti

      Author's profile photo Raul Ruiz
      Raul Ruiz

      Hi Indrajit.

      If I am not wrong , I am experiencing the same issue (it seems the license is not updated yet). However, I am not able to update the file. Cannot access sybase directory after unzipping the TAR, as I have no permission. Did you use any special option when unzipping dbexe.tgz-aa? I did this:

      sudo tar -zxvf dbexe.tgz-aa

       

      Thanks in advance

       

      Author's profile photo Taryck BENSIALI
      Taryck BENSIALI

      I've succeed by pass the ASE license issue but this leads to a invalid hardware key that is not supported by SAP Sneak Preview License Key Request.

      I've got a running SAP ut can't connect with something else than SAP*

      I've used the new archive for the ASE DB on a fresh install and at last it's works...

       

      Author's profile photo Jamps Nugpatz
      Jamps Nugpatz

      Hi Indrajit,

       

      I really appreciate your reply concerning this issue.

      I got the license issue sorted out but it look's like I got another one, do you also have solution for this error? Thank You in advance!

       

      Author's profile photo Manfred Stein
      Manfred Stein

      I also suggest that you try our new version, just like Julie recommends. Anyhow, you have a problem with your network Setup. Our installer does not discover the hostname to be used bythe system as active on the Installation server. You have to carefully implement the respective steps of Julie’s guide, for either 750 or 751 as appropriate.

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Indrajit,

      Thanks for your help. However, following community feedback we have focussed on providing a new version, 751, with valid license,  in time for Teched. This is now available here:

      https://blogs.sap.com/2017/09/04/sap-as-abap-751-sp02-developer-edition-to-download/

      As such, we are unlikely to have the resources to rebuild the 750. Sorry, I cannot help further – I will let you know if this changes.

      Best wishes Julie.

       

      Author's profile photo Manfred Stein
      Manfred Stein

      Hi Indrajit

      The install.sh has a check built in that allows you to provide a new ASE license files without the Need to repackage the dbex.tgz file. Just place your new valid SYBASE_ASE_TD.lic file into the Directory where install.sh resides and then execute install.sh. install.sh will update the license file in the license Directory of ASE. We will make a valid SYBASE_ASE_TD.lic available any time soon.

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Thanks Manfred, I will be updating the docu shortly.

      Best wishes Julie.

      Author's profile photo Akshath LT
      Akshath LT

      Hi Manfred/Julie,

      I am getting below after performing below steps.

      1. Downloaded new file (dbexe.tgz-aa) from the sap portal and replaced with old file.
      2. Placed new valid SYBASE_ASE_TD.lic file into the directory where install.sh resides.

      Could you please help to solve this issue.

      Regards,

      Akshath L.T

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hello to all. I would like to install suse at home to practice, but the tutorial says that you need a HTTP Proxy. I do not have an HTTP Proxy. How can I do? Thank you

       

      Author's profile photo Taryck BENSIALI
      Taryck BENSIALI

      skip the proxy setting step. You don't need it.

       

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Nicola,

      No, it says “IF you have a proxy....”.

      So dont worry if you don’t- just skip those steps.

      Best wishes,

      Julie.

      Author's profile photo Taryck BENSIALI
      Taryck BENSIALI

       

      Hi all,

       

      After many tries I succeed install SAP NW 7.50 Developer edition.

      Because of the high number of tries I had to do. I’ve created a install guide that helps me to speed up my installs. My installs was failling due to ASE license issue on new install. Now that SAP has just fixed this issue few days ago. My install guide was leading to a success full install.

      Here is my install guide for SAP NW 7.5 on OpenSuse VM : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6wlEuX4PvVXc1FkdmVzLUR6ZlU/view

      I’ve saved my Virtual Box’s VM (47Gb) at the end of the installation so if anyone want a copy, I’ll create a torrent file (10,5Gb) to download it. Just Ask for it.

      Taryck.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Yes please, can you link me the torrent file?

      Many thanks!

      Author's profile photo Taryck BENSIALI
      Taryck BENSIALI

      Hi,

       

      The torrent file should be accessible @ : https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6wlEuX4PvVXa2QyUk5MQnMtUVE

      Please confirm download is OK and keep seeding this torrent…

      Taryck.

       

      Author's profile photo Jamps Nugpatz
      Jamps Nugpatz

      Thanks for the file. Can you also send the extracted rar folders with the updated ASE license?

      One more thing, if you don't mind sharing the access for your user accounts in your VMs that would be great.

      Author's profile photo Taryck BENSIALI
      Taryck BENSIALI

      Hi,

       

      It’s a the top of the blog page :

      NOTE: ASE license expiry

      New ASE license is available here:

      Renew ASE License: SAP Document Center

      Password for :

      • root
      • desktop user
      • SAP users

      is 8 chars long : SAPnw750

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      .

      Author's profile photo Rafal Kowalski
      Rafal Kowalski

      Hi Taryck

       

      trying to download new ASE license directly from your pdf guide, but got information that document is already not available....thanks for any help...

       

      Rafal

       

      Author's profile photo Taryck BENSIALI
      Taryck BENSIALI

      Please contact Julie PLUMMER because the link I provide is the same one at the begining of this blog :

       

      New ASE license is available here: Renew ASE License: SAP Document Center

       

      and as you said this link has expired....

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Hi All,

      New ASE license is available here: ASE License 2019 - have updated link at top of blog.

      Best wishes Julie.

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      PS Taryck Bensiali  - thanks a lot for all your Community support.

      Best wishes Julie.

      Author's profile photo Akshath LT
      Akshath LT

      Hi Taryck,

       

      I am getting below issue. Could you please guide me to solve the issue.

      I have followed the same steps (2.1,2.2 and 2.3) as you mentioned in the document.

      But,  still i am getting below error.

      Thanks in advance

       

      Regards,

      Akshath L.T

      Author's profile photo Taryck BENSIALI
      Taryck BENSIALI

      You'll have to look at the log to get the error. Could you provide the check results described in §4.1

      You should have followed the guide from §1 until step §4.2.6 where you get a failure

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hello Taryck,

      thank you very much for your very detailed introduction!

      I have installed everything successfully, could successfully log in to SAP-GUI but after the following

      configuration: "Edit DEFAULT.PFL -> Add parameter : icm/host_name_full = $(SAPLOCALHOST).dummy.nodomain" and restart Netweaver i can't log in to SAP-GUI.

      I get the following error message:

      ___________________________________________

      connection to partner '127.0.0.1:sapdp00' broken

      Component: NI(network interface)
      Release: 740
      Version: 40
      Module: D:/depotbas/740_REL/src/base/ni/nixxi.cpp
      Line: 5129
      Method: NiRead: P=127.0.0.1:3200; L=127.0.0.1: 50040
      Return Code: -6
      SystemCall: recv
      Counter: 1

      ___________________________________________

      I downloaded and executed your VM (torrent-file) too and I getting the same error.

      My Client ist on Windows10 installed.

      I think this property 'icm/host_name_full' is very important for me because i want programming WEB-

      Dynpros.

      Can you help me?

      Author's profile photo Taryck BENSIALI
      Taryck BENSIALI

      VM, i guess is not working because we will many with the same installation ID. I get issue when reusing my own VM.

      So proper install from begining is the best/recommanded way.

      Could you provide the check results described in §4.1 ?

      Because most of the time SAP GUI issue are wrong IP (either in SAP GUI Configuration) or Server configuration.

      could you ping the server from your sap gui's PC ?

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hello Taryck and many thanks for the quick answer!

      All points 4.1 (Perform Checks ) are success.

      As already mentioned: I made a VM by myself (all complete) and later i used your torrent file too.

      In both cases: I was able to log on to SAP-GUI, activate license and programing ABAP.

      Only when I set DEFAULT.PFL (icm/host_name_full = $ (SAPLOCALHOST).dummy.nodomain) and restart Netweaver I can’t login anymore.

      I suspect the problem has something to do with the network settings of my Windows10.

      Many greetings
      Maxim

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      “could you ping the server from your sap gui’s PC ?”

      Yes and I can connect with root on SSH using MobaXterm.

      Here log from my connection and server-start from MobaXterm:

      Last login: Fri Jan 5 19:45:36 2018 from 10.0.2.2
      Have a lot of fun...
      vhcalnplci:~ # su npladm
      vhcalnplci:npladm 51> startsap ALL
      ping: unknown host vhcalnpldb
      Checking syb Database
      Database is running
      -------------------------------------------
      Starting Startup Agent sapstartsrv
      OK
      Instance Service on host vhcalnplci started
      -------------------------------------------
      starting SAP Instance ASCS01
      Startup-Log is written to /home/npladm/startsap_ASCS01.log
      -------------------------------------------
      /usr/sap/NPL/ASCS01/exe/sapcontrol -prot NI_HTTP -nr 01 -function Start
      Instance on host vhcalnplci started
      Starting Startup Agent sapstartsrv
      OK
      Instance Service on host vhcalnplci started
      -------------------------------------------
      starting SAP Instance D00
      Startup-Log is written to /home/npladm/startsap_D00.log
      -------------------------------------------
      /usr/sap/NPL/D00/exe/sapcontrol -prot NI_HTTP -nr 00 -function Start
      Instance on host vhcalnplci started

      Author's profile photo Taryck BENSIALI
      Taryck BENSIALI

      If you log is correct :

      connection to partner ‘127.0.0.1:sapdp00’ broken

      Component: NI(network interface)
      Release: 740
      Version: 40
      Module: D:/depotbas/740_REL/src/base/ni/nixxi.cpp
      Line: 5129
      Method: NiRead: P=127.0.0.1:3200; L=127.0.0.1: 50040

       

      You use 127.0.0.1 for your SAP GUI connexion.

      You should try and switch to the real Server's IP. the one you've pinged or used with Mobaxterm...

       

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      You mean 10.0.2.15 from ->

      vhcalnplci:~ # ifconfig
      eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:D1:F5:68
      inet addr:10.0.2.15 Bcast:10.0.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
      inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fed1:f568/64 Scope:Link
      UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
      RX packets:353 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
      TX packets:353 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
      collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
      RX bytes:39353 (38.4 Kb) TX bytes:56254 (54.9 Kb)

      lo Link encap:Local Loopback
      inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
      inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
      UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
      RX packets:400 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
      TX packets:400 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
      collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
      RX bytes:49307 (48.1 Kb) TX bytes:49307 (48.1 Kb)

      If i try to use this ip to connect, then i get follw message bei log on&

      "partner '10.0.2.15:sapdp00' not reached

       

       

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      I found the reason for my problem:

      I can not more log in when i activate the DEFAULT-profile:

      /usr/sap/NPL/SYS/DEFAULT.PFL

      **************************************************************************************************
      SAPDBHOST = vhcalnpldb
      j2ee/dbtype = syb
      j2ee/dbname = NPL
      j2ee/dbhost = sid-npl
      SAPSYSTEMNAME = NPL
      SAPGLOBALHOST = vhcalnplcs
      system/type = ABAP
      rdisp/mshost = vhcalnplcs
      rdisp/msserv = sapmsNPL
      rdisp/msserv_internal = 3901
      enque/process_location = REMOTESA
      enque/serverhost = vhcalnplcs
      enque/serverinst = 01
      is/HTTP/show_detailed_errors = FALSE
      icf/user_recheck = 1
      icm/HTTP/ASJava/disable_url_session_tracking = TRUE
      service/protectedwebmethods = SDEFAULT
      #parameter created by: SAP* 06.01.2018 15:01:30
      PHYS_MEMSIZE = 60%
      gw/acl_mode = 1
      gw/sec_info = $(DIR_GLOBAL)$(DIR_SEP)secinfo$(FT_DAT)
      login/password_downwards_compatibility = 0
      vmcj/enable = off
      login/system_client = 001
      dbms/type = syb
      dbs/syb/schema = SAPSR3
      dbs/syb/server = vhcalnpldb
      dbs/syb/dbname = NPL
      dbs/syb/port = 4901
      rsdb/ssfs_connect = 1
      rsec/ssfs_datapath = /usr/sap/NPL/SYS/global/security/rsecssfs/data
      rsec/ssfs_keypath = /usr/sap/NPL/SYS/global/security/rsecssfs/key
      rdisp/TRACE = 1
      system/uuid = af7fa6d5-d54a-4016-a590-2ab416afe1a0

      **************************************************************************************************

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Now I solved the problem by editing the profile file /usr/sap/NPL/SYS/DEFAULT.PFL directly with a text editor.

      Author's profile photo Jamps Nugpatz
      Jamps Nugpatz

      Hi Maxim,

       

       

      I'm not sure if this will also solve the issue I have with my SAP Log On PAD. it says (see attached)...

      Please let me know. cheers

       

      Author's profile photo Praveen Singh
      Praveen Singh

      Hi Julie Plummer

      Could you please help by providing step by step procedure to implement SAP S4HANA on Oracle VM as openSUSE 42.1 is outdated and I am unable to install SAP on my system?

      Please help.

      Thanks,

      Praveen

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Praveen,

      "SAP S/4HANA"?

      No, I can't. This forum is for SAP AS ABAP server (dev edition) only.

      Best wishes Julie.

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

       

      Hi everyone,

      Since we now have 6 blogs referring to 2 different versions of the download developer edition, blog comments are becoming unmanageable. In addition, searching through blog comments is very difficult for other users, resulting in many duplicate issues.

      From now on, please DO NOT post a blog comment if you require troubleshooting.

      Please post on the ABAP Development forum : https://www.sap.com/community/topic/abap.html , using the hashtag #ABAP_Trial. I promise to work through the backlog here, but cannot answer any further questions.

      Thank you for your understanding.

      Best wishes,

      Julie Plummer.

      SAP Product Management.

      Author's profile photo James Chau
      James Chau

      Hi Julie,

      Apparently the Developer Access Key

      35408798513176413512 used for abap 750 is not the right one to use for abap 751.
      
      Would you have the right Developer Access Key for abap 751?
      
      Thanks and warm regards,
      James

       

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Hi James,

      Yes, it's 12222845243181034647 .

      Best wishes,

      Julie

      Author's profile photo Teodor Nita
      Teodor Nita

      Thank you Julie!

      Worked perfectly.

       

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Excellent!

      Best wishes

      Author's profile photo Rafal Kowalski
      Rafal Kowalski

      Hi Jullie,

      trying to download new license file directly by link and receive information that files/documents are already not available there. Thank you for help

      Rafal

      https://mdocs.sap.com/mcm/public/v1/open?shr=dRhHsVYVLc5c1UDveogwtXBdL9m82JccRlvvBXO6K5Q

       

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi everyone,

      I did a few installs (on ubuntu, suse) on the manual step by step, and not 1 installation was not completed. I found a ready-made virtual machine with the NW750, but it also crashed. After installing a clean system, I did not change the network settings and register a static IP only assigned hostname and domain name. I installed nw7.51 with the -s option, everything worked.

      Author's profile photo chintan bodar
      chintan bodar

      hi everyone,

      abap installation done as above. but now in sap gui  i can't logon...

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Chintan,

      Can you please create this as a question in the forum:

      https://www.sap.com/community/topic/abap/all-content.html , telling us what error you got, preferably with a screen shot?
      Also, if you include my name, Julie Plummer  , then I **should** get a notification.

      Best wishes Julie.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Could you please extend the license file , seems it is expired.

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Nooruddin - should be ok now.

      Best wishes JUlie.

      Author's profile photo Karl Pelzer
      Karl Pelzer

       

      Does anyone have a link to the recent NPL license download page? The old license expired end of march.

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Karl,

      The license you need is not for NPL (ABAP server) but for ASE (database).

      Please try this:

      https://sap.sharepoint.com/sites/101566/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx

      Please let me know if this works . Best wishes Julie.

      Author's profile photo Karl Pelzer
      Karl Pelzer

      Hi Julie,

      sorry I did forget to mention. All is up and running.

      Thanks,

      Karl

       

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Karl, Good to know thanks!

      Best wishes Julie.

      Author's profile photo Rolf Hemmerling
      Rolf Hemmerling

      I followed all the instructions of this valuable blog article,

       

      to install the latest free SAP Developer edition,

      SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.51 SP02 by SAP America, Inc. (Trial Version)

      https://store.sap.com/sap/cp/ui/resources/store/html/SolutionDetails.html?pid=0000014493&catID=&pcntry=DE&sap-language=EN&_cp_id=id-1477346420741-0

      on the current openSUSE 64-bit ( with all current patches )

      openSUSE-Leap-42.3-DVD-x86_64.iso

      , on current VirtualBox 5.2.8 ( 100 GB filespace, 8 GB vitual RAM ),

      on a Win10 64-bit PC, i7 CPU, 32 GB RAM physical RAM.

       

      I started the install script as suggested after "sudo -i" in the mounted NTFS directory

      /media/sf_s4installer

      by "./install.sh"

      and entered

      ENTER key

      # after "Hit Enter to continue"

      yes

      # to acknowledge the license

      suse2018

      # I am asked to set the "password for the OS users" two times

       

      But the installation script “install.sh” breaks by the error message.

      *******
      Abort execution because of Step returns modlib.jslib.caughtExecption.
      Installation of NPL failed, please check logfiles in /tmp/sapinst_instdir for possible root cause
      *******

      At

      /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/sapinst.log

      there are 2 ERRORs quite at the end of the logfile, after that there are 3 minor non-error messages at the end of the file:

      *******

      INFO 2018-04-12 14:41:46.165 (root/sapinst)
      Account sybnpl does not exist.

      INFO 2018-04-12 14:41:46.200 (root/sapinst)
      Account npladm does not exist.

      INFO 2018-04-12 14:41:46.297 (root/sapinst)
      Working directory changed to /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD.

      INFO 2018-04-12 14:41:46.336 (root/sapinst)
      Execute step fillContext of component |offlineadjustment_dialogs|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|offlineadjustment_os_users|ind|ind|ind|ind|osUsers|0

      INFO 2018-04-12 14:41:46.514 (root/sapinst)
      Working directory changed to /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD.

      INFO 2018-04-12 14:41:46.835 (root/sapinst)
      Execute step setValuesFromInputParameterFile of component |offlineadjustment_dialogs|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|offlineadjustment_os_users|ind|ind|ind|ind|osUsers|0

      INFO 2018-04-12 14:41:47.007 (root/sapinst)
      Working directory changed to /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD.

      INFO 2018-04-12 14:41:47.563 (root/sapinst)
      Execute step fillContext of component |offlineadjustment_dialogs|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|offlineadjustment_os_users|ind|ind|ind|ind|osUsers|0|NW_GetUserParameter|ind|ind|ind|ind|getUserParameter|0

      INFO 2018-04-12 14:41:47.735 (root/sapinst)
      Working directory changed to /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD.

      INFO 2018-04-12 14:41:48.203 (root/sapinst)
      Execute step fillContextFromParameterFile of component |offlineadjustment_dialogs|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|offlineadjustment_os_users|ind|ind|ind|ind|osUsers|0|NW_GetUserParameter|ind|ind|ind|ind|getUserParameter|0

      INFO 2018-04-12 14:41:48.375 (root/sapinst)
      Working directory changed to /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD.

      INFO 2018-04-12 14:41:48.556 (root/sapinst)
      Execute step init of component |offlineadjustment_dialogs|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|offlineadjustment_os_users|ind|ind|ind|ind|osUsers|0|NW_GetUserParameter|ind|ind|ind|ind|getUserParameter|0|NW_GetUserParameterUnix|ind|ind|ind|ind|users_unix|0

      INFO 2018-04-12 14:41:48.722 (root/sapinst)
      Working directory changed to /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD.

      INFO 2018-04-12 14:41:48.997 (root/sapinst)
      Execute step setDefaults of component |offlineadjustment_dialogs|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|offlineadjustment_os_users|ind|ind|ind|ind|osUsers|0|NW_GetUserParameter|ind|ind|ind|ind|getUserParameter|0|NW_GetUserParameterUnix|ind|ind|ind|ind|users_unix|0

      INFO 2018-04-12 14:41:49.196 (root/sapinst)
      Working directory changed to /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD.

      INFO 2018-04-12 14:41:49.451 (root/sapinst)
      Execute step askSidAdm of component |offlineadjustment_dialogs|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|offlineadjustment_os_users|ind|ind|ind|ind|osUsers|0|NW_GetUserParameter|ind|ind|ind|ind|getUserParameter|0|NW_GetUserParameterUnix|ind|ind|ind|ind|users_unix|0

      ERROR 2018-04-12 14:41:49.626 (root/sapinst) id=modlib.jslib.caughtException errno=MUT-03025
      Caught ESAPinstException in module call: Validator of step |offlineadjustment_dialogs|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|offlineadjustment_os_users|ind|ind|ind|ind|osUsers|0|NW_GetUserParameter|ind|ind|ind|ind|getUserParameter|0|NW_GetUserParameterUnix|ind|ind|ind|ind|users_unix|0|askSidAdm reports an error:

      To solve that problem start the installation without using SAPINST_START_GUI option..

      ERROR 2018-04-12 14:41:49.729 (root/sapinst) id=controller.stepExecuted errno=FCO-00011
      The step askSidAdm with step key |offlineadjustment_dialogs|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|offlineadjustment_os_users|ind|ind|ind|ind|osUsers|0|NW_GetUserParameter|ind|ind|ind|ind|getUserParameter|0|NW_GetUserParameterUnix|ind|ind|ind|ind|users_unix|0|askSidAdm was executed with status ERROR ( Last error reported by the step: Caught ESAPinstException in module call: Validator of step |offlineadjustment_dialogs|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|offlineadjustment_os_users|ind|ind|ind|ind|osUsers|0|NW_GetUserParameter|ind|ind|ind|ind|getUserParameter|0|NW_GetUserParameterUnix|ind|ind|ind|ind|users_unix|0|askSidAdm reports an error:

      To solve that problem start the installation without using SAPINST_START_GUI option..).

      INFO 2018-04-12 14:41:49.953 (root/sapinst)
      Creating file /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/INSTANA.XML.

      INFO 2018-04-12 14:41:50.043 (root/sapinst)
      Creating file /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD/instslana.xml.

      INFO 2018-04-12 14:41:50.399 (root/sapinst)
      Working directory changed to /tmp/sapinst_instdir/NW73/SBC/STANDARD

       

      *******

      Even a local SAP Code Jam lecturer had no clue what is wrong, a year ago he succeeded with installation of SAP on openSUSE.

      He suggested me not to consider the “To solve that problem start the installation without using SAPINST_START_GUI option” hint, as the installation process of the free developer edition is console/text-based only. He was unable to tell me how to apply this tip or whether this tip is useful.

      Any help is appreciated.

      Sincerely

      Rolf

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Rolf, Thanks for your clear summary.

      I am officially out of office. But 2 users solved this issue by renewing their ASE license. Can you check yours : it may have expired in March 2018?

      Best wishes, Julie.

      Author's profile photo Rolf Hemmerling
      Rolf Hemmerling

      Julie,

      I am very sorry, but your answer is inadequate.

      I fail with the installation process prior the application or even installation of a license file. So I dont have any ASE license file installed.

      Btw, the install script demands entering a general password, There was no indication about the requirements for that, so I entered

      suse

      , later I tried a new SAP installation with password

      suse2018

      as password for my local, non-productive free development SAP server.

      Is that ok, or might be the reason why the installation breaks ?

      What kind of passwords are expected and accepted by the script ?

       

      Same failure by “askSidAdm”, looks like having the same break message ( but according to the thread creator, was solved by simply using usernames which conform to SAP standards )

      https://answers.sap.com/questions/455114/abap-trial-asksidadm-reports-error-on-install-sap.html

       

      Might somebody open a "ticket" ?

      Or might tell me how to do that, and where ?

       

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Rolf, I answered this in the other comment you posted.:

      https://answers.sap.com/questions/455114/abap-trial-asksidadm-reports-error-on-install-sap.html?childToView=487228&answerPublished=true#answer-487228

      Trust me: The license may not be valid. The install script checks before completing the install.

      It is quite possible that you have a different problem; if so, please then let me know. The license check is just the first step. 

      See my other comment for more details.

      Best wishes Julie.

      Author's profile photo Fedor Shestov
      Fedor Shestov

      Hi. I've installed sap trial successfully but I cannot connect it via Eclipse because it requires SNC connection. What should I type there? In my version of Eclipse, SNC is obligatory. I've tried to use 127.0.0.1 and the host name, however it ends up with the same mistake "Logon to system NPL failed (SNCERR_BAD_NT_PREFIX, SncPImportPrName() parsing error, name="127.0.0.1")"

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      "In my version of Eclipse, SNC is obligatory. "

      I'm on Oxygen 4.7.1 - it's recommended but not obligatory.

      Please update your Eclipse. AFAIK, we don't provide SNC with the free trial edition.

      Best wishes Julie.

      Author's profile photo Teodor Nita
      Teodor Nita

      Starting SAP Server after a reboot.

      Hello All,

      Please use following command in xterminal (xterm, not terminal)  to START your SAP server after a Linux/PC reboot:

      su -c “startsap all” -l npladm

      • please wait until system is fully operative, after you should be able to connect to your SAP instance using SAPGUI from Windows/MAC
      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Teodor,

      Why? I have never had a problem with terminal - could you please provide details?
      Thanks Julie.

      Author's profile photo Teodor Nita
      Teodor Nita

      Hello Julie,

       

      I faced only one issue during the setup process. I received the NPL installation failed error message, even after  i renewed the license key using untar > replace license file > tar dbexe.tgz-aa.

      I resolved this issue and installed NPL Server successfully using nano application under Gnome Terminal, (not  Xterminal)

      • i opened Terminal, launched "su" command
      • navigate with nano to license file , directly under dbexe.tgz-aa (no untar needed), copied and pasted new license text then save.
      • still under Terminal i used the nano command for install.sh
      • I found this fix on youtube.
      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Teodor,

      Ah, thanks for the response. I'll make a note of this.

      Best wishes,

      Julie.

      Author's profile photo Marco Büscher
      Marco Büscher

      Hello,

       

      my MINISAP runs now since a few month. -But now I have the Problem that the CPU Used 100% and the VM and also SAP freeze for ca. 1/2 up to 1 hour. After that everything is fine. On day later, the same problem. Freeze for one hour and after that everything is fine...

      Had somone the same problem an solved it?

       

      Best regards.

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Dear all,

      As of now, I will not be able to moderate comments on this blog. Therefore, comments entered after today, 26th July, 2018 will have to be ignored. (I will try to process existing comments as soon as I can, but there is a backlog.)

      From now on, please ask your question in the ABAP Development Community forum:

      https://www.sap.com/community/topic/abap/all-content.html

      If it is an issue involving ABAP developer edition, remember to add the hashtag #ABAP_Trial.

      Please do not use comments in the blogs to ask tech support questions :

      • It makes it difficult for other users to find similar issues in future, which leads to many duplicated errors.
      • Very few people follow these blogs, so you will not get help from the vast majority of the community

      I apologize for this, but there is no capacity to monitor all blogs for all released versions.

      Best wishes Julie.

       

       

      Author's profile photo Jimit Shah
      Jimit Shah

      Hi!

      I am stuck at Point no.12 assign root privileges. I went step by step but I got this error which I have attached. Please guide me for this situation.

      Thank you.

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Jimit,

      This appears to be a known issue for some users - so far, an issue with the new VBox and MS Windows 10.

      That is, it is not an issue with the AS ABAP. However, you do not have to use the "Mount" function: Instead, use WinSCP. Step-by-step guide is here:

      VMWare Guide

      If that fails, please please create a question - I have explained why above :

      ABAP Forum

      HTH Julie.

      Author's profile photo Harry Guenter
      Harry Guenter

      I tried the Installation but end up with:

      Abort execution because of
      Step Returns modlib.jslib.caughtException

      I've read that it could be caused by a Licence Problem. However I saw that the ASE License provided expired by the end of march 2020.

      Are there any chances that the License is prolonged?

      Author's profile photo Julie Plummer
      Julie Plummer
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Harry,

      No, for legal reasons we cannot prolong the license.

      Please upgrade to AS ABAP 7.52 SP04. All links and info here: https://blogs.sap.com/2019/07/01/as-abap-752-sp04-developer-edition-to-download/

      Best wishes,
      JUlie.

      Author's profile photo amani Abushaala
      amani Abushaala

      pleas asst me when try instaal abap i got error please help me

      To install this TestDrive you have to accept
      the SAP COMMUNITY DEVELOPER License (DEV).
      Do you agree to the above license terms? yes/no:
      User's response to the accept license prompt = 'y'
      Please enter a password:
      Please re-enter password for verification:
      extracting data archives...
      extracting /media/sf_ABAP752/server/TAR/x86_64/dbdata.tgz-*
      extracting /media/sf_ABAP752/server/TAR/x86_64/dblog.tgz-*
      extracting /media/sf_ABAP752/server/TAR/x86_64/dbexe.tgz-*
      extracting /media/sf_ABAP752/server/TAR/x86_64/usrsap.tgz-*
      extracting /media/sf_ABAP752/server/TAR/x86_64/sapmnt.tgz-*
      Checking Linux kernel memory management parameters according to SAP Note 941735
      Backing up /etc/sysctl.conf in /etc/sysctl.backup
      Checking Linux kernel parameter vm.max_map_count according to SAP Note 900929
      Checking presence of new SYBASE license files
      Replaced the license file /sybase/NPL/SYSAM-2_0/licenses/SYBASE_ASE_TestDrive.lic
      Waiting 30 seconds for asynchronous call to /tmp/hostctrl/saphostexec -install to complete...
      Install service
      Check Installation Path ...

      saphostexec is already running (pid=8077). Stopping...Stopped
      ok
      Copy Executable ...
      ok
      Generate Profile ...
      ok
      Install SYS-V service ...
      [WARNING] installsapinit.sh exit with status 5
      -> Start /usr/sap/hostctrl/exe/saphostexec pf=/usr/sap/hostctrl/exe/host_profile <-
      start hostcontrol using profile /usr/sap/hostctrl/exe/host_profile
      ok
      [OK] SAPHostExec / SAPHostControl succesfully installed
      Executing: "/usr/sap/hostctrl/exe/SAPCAR" -xvf "./SHADBMETRICSDEF.SAR" -R "/usr/sap/hostctrl/exe/config.d"
      SAPCAR: processing archive ./SHADBMETRICSDEF.SAR (version 2.01)
      x dbmetric.definition.db4.cimobj
      x dbmetric.definition.db6.cimobj
      x dbmetric.definition.hdb.cimobj
      x dbmetric.definition.mss.cimobj
      x dbmetric.definition.ora.cimobj
      x dbmetric.definition.sap.cimobj
      x dbmetric.definition.siq.cimobj
      x dbmetric.definition.syb.cimobj
      x dbmetric.definition.tst.cimobj
      x dbmetrics.d
      x dbmetrics.d/00.general.hdb.cimobj
      x dbmetrics.d/00.state.hdb.cimobj
      x dbmetrics.d/10.host.capacity.hdb.cimobj
      x dbmetrics.d/20.indexserver.hdb.cimobj
      x dbmetrics.d/20.nameserver.hdb.cimobj
      SAPCAR: 15 file(s) extracted
      SAPCAR: rc 0
      30 seconds are up, continuing the main script.
      =>sapparam(1c): No Profile used.
      =>sapparam: SAPSYSTEMNAME neither in Profile nor in Commandline
      ################################################
      Abort execution because of
      Step returns modlib.jslib.caughtException
      ################################################

      Error: sapinst has finished with an error code, please find logs in /tmp/sapinst_instdir
      Error code: 20
      ++++ Support data section BEGIN ++++
      * mount
      proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
      sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
      devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,size=4096k,nr_inodes=1048576,mode=755,inode64)
      securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
      tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,inode64)
      devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
      tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,size=3734164k,nr_inodes=819200,mode=755,inode64)
      tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,size=4096k,nr_inodes=1024,mode=755,inode64)
      cgroup2 on /sys/fs/cgroup/unified type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate)
      cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,name=systemd)
      pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
      bpf on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
      cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio)
      cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/pids type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids)
      cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)
      cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
      cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
      cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb)
      cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
      cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
      cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,rdma)
      cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/misc type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,misc)
      cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
      cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)
      /dev/sda2 on / type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache,subvolid=268,subvol=/@/.snapshots/1/snapshot)
      systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=30,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=17713)
      debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
      hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime,pagesize=2M)
      mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
      tracefs on /sys/kernel/tracing type tracefs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
      fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
      configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
      /dev/sda2 on /.snapshots type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache,subvolid=267,subvol=/@/.snapshots)
      /dev/sda2 on /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache,subvolid=265,subvol=/@/boot/grub2/x86_64-efi)
      /dev/sda2 on /boot/grub2/i386-pc type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache,subvolid=266,subvol=/@/boot/grub2/i386-pc)
      /dev/sda2 on /root type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache,subvolid=262,subvol=/@/root)
      /dev/sda2 on /opt type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache,subvolid=263,subvol=/@/opt)
      /dev/sda2 on /srv type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache,subvolid=261,subvol=/@/srv)
      /dev/sda2 on /usr/local type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache,subvolid=259,subvol=/@/usr/local)
      /dev/sda2 on /tmp type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache,subvolid=260,subvol=/@/tmp)
      /dev/sda2 on /home type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache,subvolid=264,subvol=/@/home)
      /dev/sda2 on /var type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache,subvolid=258,subvol=/@/var)
      tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=1867080k,nr_inodes=466770,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=100,inode64)
      gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
      ABAP752 on /media/sf_ABAP752 type vboxsf (rw,nodev,relatime,iocharset=utf8,uid=0,gid=465,dmode=0770,fmode=0770,tag=VBoxAutomounter)
      tracefs on /sys/kernel/debug/tracing type tracefs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
      binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
      * df -h
      Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
      devtmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev
      tmpfs 9.0G 4.0K 9.0G 1% /dev/shm
      tmpfs 3.6G 26M 3.6G 1% /run
      tmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
      /dev/sda2 98G 42G 55G 44% /
      /dev/sda2 98G 42G 55G 44% /.snapshots
      /dev/sda2 98G 42G 55G 44% /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi
      /dev/sda2 98G 42G 55G 44% /boot/grub2/i386-pc
      /dev/sda2 98G 42G 55G 44% /root
      /dev/sda2 98G 42G 55G 44% /opt
      /dev/sda2 98G 42G 55G 44% /srv
      /dev/sda2 98G 42G 55G 44% /usr/local
      /dev/sda2 98G 42G 55G 44% /tmp
      /dev/sda2 98G 42G 55G 44% /home
      /dev/sda2 98G 42G 55G 44% /var
      tmpfs 1.8G 68K 1.8G 1% /run/user/1000
      ABAP752 466G 103G 364G 23% /media/sf_ABAP752
      * df -hi
      Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
      devtmpfs 1.0M 481 1.0M 1% /dev
      tmpfs 2.3M 2 2.3M 1% /dev/shm
      tmpfs 800K 798 800K 1% /run
      tmpfs 1.0K 19 1005 2% /sys/fs/cgroup
      /dev/sda2 0 0 0 - /
      /dev/sda2 0 0 0 - /.snapshots
      /dev/sda2 0 0 0 - /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi
      /dev/sda2 0 0 0 - /boot/grub2/i386-pc
      /dev/sda2 0 0 0 - /root
      /dev/sda2 0 0 0 - /opt
      /dev/sda2 0 0 0 - /srv
      /dev/sda2 0 0 0 - /usr/local
      /dev/sda2 0 0 0 - /tmp
      /dev/sda2 0 0 0 - /home
      /dev/sda2 0 0 0 - /var
      tmpfs 456K 72 456K 1% /run/user/1000
      ABAP752 1000 -976K 977K - /media/sf_ABAP752
      * cat /etc/os-release
      NAME="openSUSE Leap"
      VERSION="15.5"
      ID="opensuse-leap"
      ID_LIKE="suse opensuse"
      VERSION_ID="15.5"
      PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 15.5"
      ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
      CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:leap:15.5"
      BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
      HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"
      DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Leap"
      LOGO="distributor-logo-Leap"
      * ls -ld / /sybase /usr/sap /sapmnt
      drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 190 Nov 9 12:53 /
      drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Sep 6 2019 /sapmnt
      drwxr-x--- 1 sybnpl sapsys 6 Feb 20 2017 /sybase
      drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 68 Nov 9 12:55 /usr/sap
      ++++ Support data section END ++++
      All logs have been written to the file /media/sf_ABAP752/install_2023-11-09_12-49-46.log
      Please see readme.html to find out how to get help