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EM 13.4: Agent Failed to Start Reporting "File system likely corrupted and/or directory permissions changed to disallow writes" in gcagent.log (Doc ID 2770191.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 17, 2023

Applies to:

Enterprise Manager Base Platform - Version 13.4.1.0.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

EM 13.4 Agent Failed to start with the following errors:

$<AGENT_INST>/sysman/log/emagent.nohup reports

----- 2021-04-12 10:49:35,063::18005::EMAgent exited at 2021-04-12 10:49:35,063 with return value 55. -----
----- 2021-04-12 10:49:35,063::18005::EMAgent has exited due to initialization failure. -----
----- 2021-04-12 10:49:35,063::18005::Stopping other components. -----
----- 2021-04-12 10:49:35,063::18005::Commiting Process death. -----
----- 2021-04-12 10:49:35,063::18005::writeAbnormalExitTimestampToAgntStmp: exitCause=ABNORMAL : restartRequired=0 -----
----- 2021-04-12 10:49:35,064::18005::Generating additional diagnostics for 18110 -----
----- 2021-04-12 10:49:35,064::18005::Generating netstat report in <AGENT_BASE_DIR>/agent_inst/sysman/log/netstat_18110 -----
----- 2021-04-12 10:49:35,323::18005::Generating all host processes report in <AGENT_BASE_DIR>/agent_inst/sysman/log/allprocesses_18110 -----
----- 2021-04-12 10:49:35,360::18005::Exiting watchdog loop

$<AGENT_INST>/sysman/log/gcagent.log reports following error:

File system likely corrupted and/or directory permissions changed to disallow writes since 2021-04-12 10:48:49 BST

Cause

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