My Oracle Support Banner

When Making Changes in Bi Publisher Get Error: 'Could Not Write to Configuration File' (Doc ID 750223.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 20, 2022

Applies to:

BI Publisher (formerly XML Publisher) - Version 10.1.3.2.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
This problem can occur on any platform.

Symptoms

When attempting to change password in BI Publisher for a user
the following error occurs.

ERROR
Could not write to configuration file.

STEPS
The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:
1. Change the security model in BI Publisher to 'BI Publisher Security'.
2. Set Report Repository set to a file system location:
/u01/oracleBI/product/10.1.3/OracleBI/xmlp/XMLP.
3. Try to change the password for a user account, it fails with the error:
Could not write to configuration file.
4. Any changes in the Admin forms give the same error.

BUSINESS IMPACT
The issue has the following business impact:
Due to this issue, users cannot finish setting up BI Publisher.

Cause

To view full details, sign in with your My Oracle Support account.

Don't have a My Oracle Support account? Click to get started!


In this Document
Symptoms
Cause
Solution


My Oracle Support provides customers with access to over a million knowledge articles and a vibrant support community of peers and Oracle experts.