SAP HANA 2.0 installation error SLES 12 2

[rylands]

Hi,

When installing SAP HANA 2.0, Database, Client and AFL components I experience the following error for both the Client and for the AFL components:

Updating components...
Installing SAP HANA Database Client...
Update of SAP HANA Database components failed.
Cannot detect command line options dynamicly
Cannot parse external program configuration:
syntax error at line 1, column 0, byte 0 at SDB/Install/Configuration/ExternalProgramConfiguration.pm line 72.

I have used the exact same installation kit on several previous installations in an ongoing implementation project, but on the last installation the OS level is higher compared to previous installations. The error occurs not only on installing the client but also for AFL

Trying to install this on the following OS:
SLES 12 SP2
16 CPUs
437GB Memory

I have been through the different notes regarding OS specific settings for HANA 2.0 and SLES 12 SP2, but no luck yet.
Suspected missing packages or libraries, but have not been able to identify such.

Anyone had any experience with this?

Kind Regards

Sveinung

[Former Member]

How was this resolved ? I have faced the same error.

Thank you. Rob.

[raj27]

I just hit this problem on SLES 15SP5 attempting to install plug-in sap_afl_sdk_apl on an SPS7 HDB.

As the OP said, I had done this exact thing several times, but this particular server would not play ball.

When I copied the installation media off the NFS where I had it  and made it local, it worked.  I guess there is a problem with the NFS mount, or hdblcm doesn't play with NFS files nicely.  I didn't investigate any further after solving this issue FWIW.

Before resolution, my log showed:

17:29:17.586 - INFO: Installing Automated Predictive Library...
17:29:17.586 - INFO: Detecting known command line options
17:29:17.586 - INFO: Getting external program configuration
17:29:17.597 - ERR : Cannot get external program configuration
17:29:17.597 - INFO: /softdump/HANA_77/SAPPAAPL4_2203_2-80004547/installer/hdbinst: Permission denied
17:29:17.598 - ERR : Cannot detect command line options dynamically.

[raj27]

In addition, the "Permission denied" error made no sense. I was running as root, and I furthermore recursively applied 777 to the entire repository folder to no avail. As I said, it was most likely some NFS artefact, but I didn't see the need to hunt the problem down once I had resolved it.