hostid 00000000

Latman · 06-25-2012, 08:24 AM

Hi,

Just finished building my RHEL 6.1 server and trying to get sybase installed on it.
For some reason it keeps failing and I think it may have something to do with hostid.
When I type in hostid, I get 00000000. I've tried googling and was not able to find a solution to this.
Network seems to be functioning ok and it has the correct IP and MAC address.
Any ideas?

catkin · 06-25-2012, 09:26 AM

One possibility is that the hostid did not initialise correctly during installation. If there is an /etc/hostid file you could try renaming it (so you can put it back if necessary) and running the hostid command which may re-create /etc/hostid.

Alternatively and more safely you could contact RHEL support and ask their advice.

chrism01 · 06-25-2012, 07:57 PM

Is this in a VM of some kind?
I've tried hostid on (non-vm) RHEL5 & 6 and received a sane answer both times.

Latman · 06-26-2012, 02:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrism01

Is this in a VM of some kind?
I've tried hostid on (non-vm) RHEL5 & 6 and received a sane answer both times.

Yeap, it is a Hyper-V VM. Not sure if it is normal or not, but have opened a case with RedHat.
I will post back and let you know what they say.