Symptom
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SAP Netweaver and SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) installation fails with the error:
An error occurred updating the system history for Java, see output of logfile '/tmp/<sapinst_directory>/$'
- Sapinst_dev.log reports:
TRACE 2025-12-22 06:47:36.654 (root/sapinst) (startInstallation) [SLPGuiEngine.cpp:214] SLPGuiEngine::showMessageBoxHandleButtonImpl()
Hard disk size exceeded for location /sybase/<SID>(requires additional 342 GB). Do you want to continue with the installation anyway?
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ASE error log reports:
kernel dcreate: insufficient space on device '/sybase/<SID>/sapdata_1/<SID>_data_001.dat'.
kernel dcreate: insufficient space on device '/sybase/<SID>/saplog_1/<SID>_log_001.dat'.
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Environment
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SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 16.0 for Business Suite
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SAP Netweaver 7.x
Product
SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise 16.0 ; SAP NetWeaver 7.4 ; SAP NetWeaver 7.5
Keywords
SWPM, installation error, hard disk size exceeded, insufficient space, database setup issue, permission problem, physical device error, system history update, SAP NetWeaver error, ASE error log, sapinst_dev.log, troubleshooting, installation failure, system requirements. , KBA , BC-DB-SYB , Business Suite on Adaptive Server Enterprise , Problem
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