Symptom
Customer is doing ASE upgrade using sap host agent and it fails with error:
/usr/sap/hostctrl/exe/saphostctrl -function LiveDatabaseUpdate -dbname <SID> -dbtype syb -updatemethod Execute -updateoption TASK=UPDATE_ASE -updateoption DROP_LOCATION=/<PATH>/ASEBS<version>
Error: Command execution failed. (fault code: 127)
----- Log messages ----
Info: saphostcontrol: Executing LiveDatabaseUpdate
Error: saphostcontrol: LiveDatabaseUpdate failed (sapdbctrl exit code = 6)
Checking dev_sapdbctrl log from Sap Host Agent we can see it failed with error:
sap host agent terminate with error :
execute: Execute: /bin/csh -c "ps -ef | grep -e '/sybase/<SID>/' | grep -e '/bin/dataserver' | grep <SID> | grep syb<sid> | grep -v grep "
execute: Running with pid xxxy
readOut: Timeout: -1
readOut: TerminateOnTimeout: false
readOut: Bad : modifier in $ '/'.
wait: Process xxxy exited with rc=1
readOut: Pipe has closed
Or similar error during same command:
readOut: Missing '}'.
readOut: Missing '}'.
readOut: NF: Undefined variable.
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Environment
- SAP Adaptive Enterprise 16 or higher
- SAP Host Agent 7.21 PL43 and later
Product
Keywords
KBA , BC-DB-SYB , Business Suite on Adaptive Server Enterprise , Problem
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