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2831955 - Locale name "POSIX" doesn't exist in your locales.dat file - SAP ASE

Symptom

  • ASE is installed successfully and is up and running

  • An error message is returned when
    • trying to connect to ASE or
    • when starting Backup Server :

      Your Sybase home directory is /sybase/SID. Check the environment variable SYBASE if it is not the one you want!
      Using locale name "POSIX" defined in environment variable LANG
      Locale name "POSIX" doesn't exist in your /sybase/SID/locales/locales.dat file

    • Other messages may precede or follow, most commonly:

      The context allocation routine failed when it tried to load localization files


  • When Installing SAP Identity Management Core Component, an error occurred while processing option: SAP Identity Management  > Installation > Distributed System > SAP Identity Management Core Component

    • Last error reported by that step:

      Program '/tmp/sapinst_exe.3863.1566920854/jre/bin/java -classpath com.sap.idm.identity-store-schema-transport-8.6.7.jar:com.sap.idm.IdMCommon-8.6.13.jar:db-install-tools-1.9.7.jar:dbapi-1.9.7.jar com.sap.idm.install.DBInstaller syb stylidpdb01 5000 sa XXXXXX /sybase/SID/data /sybase/SID/log MXMC com.srcl Administrator XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX' exits with error code 64. For details see log file(s) /tmp/sapinst_instdir/IDM80/SYSTEM/DISTR/CORE/db_install_out.log).

    • In db_install_out.log, The same message reported:

      Your Sybase home directory is /sybase/SID. Check the environment variable SYBASE if it is not the one you want!
      Using locale name "POSIX" defined in environment variable LANG
      Locale name "POSIX" doesn't exist in your /sybase/SID/locales/locales.dat file


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Environment

  • SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)
    • This error can be seen in all ASE environments but is generally reported for Business Suite (ERP / SolMan), IDM & Business Objects systems

Product

SAP NetWeaver 7.5

Keywords

IDM, Schema, POSIX, SYBASE, Locale, Name, DB, Database , KBA , BC-SYB-ASE , Sybase ASE Database Platform (non Business Suite) , BC-DB-SYB , Business Suite on Adaptive Server Enterprise , Problem

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