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Vertica error during installation

  • May 28, 2021
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SK21
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Hello Trying to install vertica on POC any idea of this error?

[root@infra-vertica-3 ~]# /opt/vertica/sbin/install_vertica --hosts 10.42.22.209 --rpm vertica-9.0.1-8.x86_64.RHEL6.rpm --dba-user mydb --ignore-install-config
Vertica Analytic Database 9.0.1-8 Installation Tool

Validating options...

Error: 'getpwuid(): uid not found: 1019'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vertica/install/init.py", line 1353, in run_install
_installMain(options)
File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vertica/install/init.py", line 1035, in _installMain
executor = adminExec.adminExec(False, user = options.vertica_dba_user)
File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vertica/engine/adminExec.py", line 170, in init
ssh_auth.setup_from_admintools_conf_if_needed()
File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vertica/network/ssh_auth.py", line 184, in setup_from_admintools_conf_if_needed
self._ssh_user = cfg.detect_dbadmin()
File "/opt/vertica/oss/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vertica/config/Configurator.py", line 840, in detect_dbadmin
pwd_info = pwd.getpwuid(stat_info.st_uid)
KeyError: 'getpwuid(): uid not found: 1019'
Installation FAILED with errors.

Installation stopped before any changes were made.

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Jim_Knicely
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  • May 29, 2021

1 - Why are you doing a POC an unsupported version of Vertica?
2 - What OS is this?