On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:39 PM, James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com> wrote: >> I am trying to install DFM 4.0.2, and have tried on both CentOS 4.8 >> i386 and CentOS 5.5 x86_64. I have edited my /etc/redhat-release file >> to be equal to RHEL's, as the DFM installer immediately aborts if that >> isn't right. However, I still have errors during the install: >> > > ... > >> Communication error >> error: %post(NTAPdfm-3.8-6640.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 >> >> > > ... > >> Jul 19 12:58:11 lnxsvr41 SQLAnywhere(monitordb): Running Linux >> 2.6.9-89.0.25.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu May 6 12:28:03 EDT 2010 on X86 (X86_64) >> Jul 19 12:58:11 lnxsvr41 SQLAnywhere(monitordb): Server built for X86 >> processor architecture Jul 19 12:58:11 lnxsvr41 >> SQLAnywhere(monitordb): Asynchronous IO disabled due to lack of proper >> OS support > > > You said you tried 4.8 32bit and 5.5 64bit..... how about 5.6 32bit? > > The era would be about right on C5 and it's obviously looking for > 32bit libraries and architecture.... > > What do the docs and NetApp say about RHEL support? Turns out the problem was with our /etc/security/limits.conf setting. We (by design) limit virtual memory to 2 GB. Apparently the installer needs more than that. So we did a "umask -v unlimited" and the install worked! Hope this is helpful for anyone else with the same problem.