Installation of WebSphere 5 2

[gekka]

Hi,

I'm currently trying to install websphere 5 on my gentoo 1.4rc1 box and I'm getting an error that stops the installation.

I'm using silent installation because I have no windowmanager and so I've edited the default optionfile to reflect my installation and then run:

./install -options ./options

where options is my optionfile. Then I'm getting an error telling me:

Setup.product.install, com.ibm.ws.install.actins.LogMessageAction, msg1, INST0051E: Unable to create user.

And then the install procedure quits.

I'm guessing this has something to do with the user that ws should run as and I've tried with both a custom user and with root, but both fails. I'm running the installer as root by the way.

Anyone know how to fix this?

 

[BryanSW]

Apparently this is in the infocenter doc, but it took me a while to find it....

Create two users "MQM" and "MQBRKRS" lower case, which will be default create two groups of the same name. Add your root user to be a member of both the "MQM" and "MQBRKRS" groups.

 

[dynamint]

Hi Gekka,

I believe the only supported versions of Linux one may use are Red Hat 7.3, Advanced Server and SuSE 7.?. They're pretty tough about using only supported software.

I'm guessing you're trying the full install with the MQ client; I did manage to get it running on Red Hat 8.0 but only after I created this user:

mqm

and these groups:

mqm
mqbrkrs

and placed root and mqm into them.

Good luck.