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RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems. posted: Sep 29, 2008 10:40 PM

c0l2e

1 posts since
Sep 29, 2008

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??

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

1. Oct 6, 2008 3:52 PM

in response to: c0l2e

Constan

2 posts since
Aug 11, 2008

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

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

2. Oct 7, 2008 12:58 PM

in response to: c0l2e

JWDenecamp

2 posts since
Oct 7, 2008

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.

3. Oct 7, 2008 3:42 PM

in response to: c0l2e

drossgatech

1 posts since
Oct 7, 2008

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.

4. Oct 7, 2008 4:15 PM

in response to: c0l2e

Constan

2 posts since
Aug 11, 2008

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

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

5. Oct 8, 2008 9:17 AM

in response to: c0l2e

JWDenecamp

2 posts since
Oct 7, 2008

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.

6. Oct 8, 2008 5:24 PM

in response to: drossgatech

jfoo

1 posts since
Oct 8, 2008

Same problem here. Same fix. Thanks.

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

7. Oct 8, 2008 6:25 PM

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mattrich

510 posts since
Nov 29, 2006

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.

8. Oct 8, 2008 8:31 PM

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barnys

108 posts since
Oct 29, 2006

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.

9. Oct 11, 2008 11:52 AM

in response to: drossgatech

ctgrubbs

1 posts since
Oct 11, 2008

My thanks as well...worked perfectly

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

10. Oct 16, 2008 1:54 AM

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gervaisb

4 posts since
Sep 19, 2008

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.

11. Oct 21, 2008 8:06 AM

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MaskedMarauder

1 posts since
Dec 4, 2007

Worked perfectly. THANK YOU!

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

12. Nov 13, 2008 6:37 PM

in response to: Constan

slabadmin

1 posts since
Nov 13, 2008

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.

13. Nov 19, 2008 1:32 AM

in response to: slabadmin

rokla

1 posts since
Nov 19, 2008

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.