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Re: RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

c_shanklin — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:16:44 GMT

buggycode wrote:

Months on, Vmware Server 2.01 and this still seems to be a problem. Some of the perissions have worked. I just added another system and attmpeted to give and existing user and role permission of that role. Bang got this error message!

What is going on?

Hi guys,

Mattrich is right (way above in the thread) that the only way to get progress on this problem is by bringing it up in the VMware Server forum.

Re: RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

buggycode — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:13:05 GMT

What is going on?

Gehrard

Re: RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

dajomas — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:09:13 GMT

I noticed an additional thing here. I was able to add 1 permission and after that, I received the same error message. I then followed the steps from drossgatech but it still didn't work. Then I had a look at the file /etc/vmware/hostd/authorization.xml and noticed that the order in which the entries appeard was: id 11 followed by id 10 and the NextAceId was 11 (I also tried 12 but that didn't work either)

I then swapped the order of the entries so that 10 came first, followed by 11 and set the NextAceId to 12 and that fixed my problem.

Hope this helps the others who were still running into the problem

Greetinx

Johan

Re: RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

GeroldGruber — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:08:40 GMT

just had to increment NextAceId one time, afterwards it worked for the next accounts.

Thanks for this solution.

Re: RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

DerekShaw — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:35:53 GMT

spent a couple of hours running this to the ground.

first we changed permission on /etc/vmware/hostd and files therein, to no effect.

next we uninstalled vmware server 2.0 and cleaned up the OS to remove all remnants thereof. Re-installed vmware server 2.0, and this time chose root as the default administrator (it was previously another user with sudoers privilges). This allowed us to add exactly one (1) user in the permissions tab for the host.

next we edited /etc/vmware/hostd/authorization.xml as described by drossgatech

This fixed it. We can now add as many groups and users in the permissions tab as we desire.

So the bug is that the "add permissions" code seems unable to increment the counter past 11, when it is at 11. Changing the counter to the correct number higher than 11 fixes the problem, and the counter then increments correctly.

my vote is for drossgatech to get credit for the correct answer, and for someone in the Server 2.0 team to have a look at the incrementing code for "new permissions"

Re: RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

StuartRothrock — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:58:33 GMT

Both entries are used in my authorization.xml

I don't think I will ever approach 100 Roles (AceId) so this is what I used.

As roles are added, they have low numbers and as members are added, they get the high numbers.
I think their terms are not applied correctly.

Cheers!

Re: RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

rokla — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:32:20 GMT

In linux systems the problem is, that vmware-config create the folder /etc/vmware/hostd for user and group root. if you chose another user as administrator for your vmware-enviroment, you won't be able to write into this file, but you need to do, if you want to change and/or add permissions for virtual machines. so the workaround, which works for me and which is still secure, is to give the files in /etc/vmware/hostd group-rights to your administrator-user and allow write-right to the group, e.g. if your administrator-user is "admin" then you should have a group called "admin" (in debian-system this is standard), which one and only member is the user "admin"and change permissions as follows

chgrp admin /etc/vmware/hostd/*

chmod g+w /etc/vmware/hostd/*

Actually you dont need to change permissions for all files, but I'm to lazy to find out, which files will be affected and I want to prevent future permission problems, so I change permissions for the whole directory.

Re: RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

slabadmin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:37:43 GMT

The posted fix that seems to have helped everyone else did not work for me. What worked for me was the following:

My setup is CentOS 5.2, VMware Server 2.0.

On initial config using vmware-config.pl, I specified a user other than root as the administrative user. That user was then unable to add permissions. I ran vmware-config.pl again and specified a different uesr as teh administrative user to no avail. That user could not add permissions. I then ran vmware-config.pl again and specified root as the administrative user. I was then able to login as root through the Web UI and add permissions. It was an unfortunate fix, as I would prefer not to have the root account directly accessible from any remote interface. As such, I then logged in as one of the newly added administrators and removed root's permissions, which prevented root from logging in.

Keep your heels low and center your gravity.

Re: RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

MaskedMarauder — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:06:20 GMT

Worked perfectly. THANK YOU!

Re: RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

gervaisb — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:54:55 GMT

I have got the same problem. VUt this was just a missing access right to the vmware files.

Re: RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

ctgrubbs — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:52:14 GMT

My thanks as well...worked perfectly

Re: RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

barnys — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:31:31 GMT

what difference does it make where it is being posted as long as it provides a viable solution?

FYI folks - I tried this out and it worked on my setup. Thanks for sharing.

Re: RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

mattrich — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:25:50 GMT

Shouldn't this be in the Server 2.0 discussion, and not the VIX API discussion?

Re: RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

jfoo — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:24:02 GMT

Same problem here. Same fix. Thanks.

Re: RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

JWDenecamp — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:17:06 GMT

This worked great! Thanks for the help. I used a different Admin so I had to specify the UID for the user I created to be the admin. Very easy fix.

Re: RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

Constan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:15:55 GMT

I already found that, however the server falls then with me.

Re: RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

drossgatech — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:41:02 GMT

I dont know what the offical patch will be but here is a workaround I found translating a German document I found.

/etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt stop

vi /etc/vmware/hostd/authorization.xml

edit the line that talks about

incrament it past the current "root" or administrator account you have.

so it now reads

I also deleted

doesnt seem to be used anywhere

I then

/etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt start

and relogged in.

I was then able to add users. Looks like the initial script doesnt incrament well and keeps trying to add you to an existing userid. I dunno why they didnt just use the userid for the users in /etc/password or ldap.

hope that helps

Re: RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

JWDenecamp — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:58:58 GMT

It would be great if someone at VMWare would reply to this and tell the public if there is a fix coming or not.

Re: RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

Constan — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:52:59 GMT

I have the same problem. I hope it am soon repaired.

RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

c0l2e — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:40:09 GMT

RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

I always received that message when creating new Administrator from local users in Linux or

adding user permission on a specific Virtual Machine.

how can I fix this??