OHS Not Starting Up, Error In Log "Invalid argument: setgid: unable to set group id to Group 4294967295" (Doc ID 2682823.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 22, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

Only the OHS was not starting up. Customer was able to access Workspace via http://<host>:28080/workspace/index.jsp.

Error in ohs_component.log -
2020-06-21T14:45:21.0248-04:00] [OHS] [INCIDENT_ERROR:20] [OHS-9999] [core.c] [host_id: <host>] [host_addr: <IP>] [pid: <pid>] [tid: 1] [user: root] [VirtualHost: main] (22)Invalid argument: setgid: unable to set group id to Group 4294967295

[2020-06-21T14:45:21.0323-04:00] [OHS] [NOTIFICATION:16] [OHS-9999] [core.c] [host_id: <host>] [host_addr: <IP>] [pid: <PID>] [tid: 1] [user: root] [VirtualHost: main] Oracle-Application-Server-11g/11.1.1.7.0 Oracle-HTTP-Server (Unix) mod_ssl/11.0.0.0.0 OtherSSL/0.0.0 mod_plsql/11.1.1.0.0 mod_onsint/2.0 configured -- resuming normal operations

[2020-06-21T14:45:21.0324-04:00] [OHS] [INCIDENT_ERROR:20] [OHS-9999] [core.c] [host_id: <host>] [host_addr: <IP>] [pid: <PID>] [tid: 1] [user: root] [VirtualHost: main] Child 9371720 returned a Fatal error... Apache is exiting!

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