Database Startup Fails After Incremental Installation (6615279)

After an incremental installation of the server, console, Advanced System Monitoring (ASM) Modules, Common Config Reader, and Desktop add-ons, database startup fails. The following error message is displayed:

Failed to start database

Workaround 1: Type the following commands:

1. Give read permissions to the group and others for the /var/opt/SUNWsymon/db/data/SunMC/pg_hba.conf file:

   usr/bin/chmod go+r /var/opt/SUNWsymon/db/data/SunMC/pg_hba.conf

2. svcadm disable sunmcdatabase

3. /opt/SUNWsymon/sbin/es-start -A

Workaround 2: Type the following commands:

1. Change the owner and group of the /var/opt/SUNWsymon/db/data/SunMC/pg_hba.conf file to smcdbu and smcdbg respectively:

   usr/bin/chown smcdbu:smcdbg /var/opt/SUNWsymon/db/data/SunMC/pg_hba.conf

2. svcadm disable sunmcdatabase

3. /opt/SUNWsymon/sbin/es-start -A