Troubleshooting
Problem
This technote explains why attempts to join an IBM® Rational® ClearCase® UCM project results in the error []error: unable to load .pdo unknown error in vob[] and provides instructions o resolve the issue.
Cause
The group of the project VOB (PVOB) is a group name to which you are not a member.
Note: The example and scenarios below are taken from a Microsoft® Windows® environment, but the concepts are the same on UNIX® and Linux®.
- Describe the PVOB to get the group name:
cleartool describe vob:\pvob
Example:
C:\>cleartool describe vob:\PVOB
versioned object base "\PVOB"
created 07-Jan-05.11:50:12 by John Doe (jdoe.clearuser@HOST1)
project VOB
VOB family feature level: 4
VOB storage host:pathname "host1:e:\ClearCase_Storage\VOBs\PVOB.vbs"
VOB storage global pathname "e:\ClearCase_Storage\VOBs\PVOB.vbs"
database schema version: 54
VOB ownership:
owner DOMAIN1\jdoe
group DOMAIN1\clearuser
promotion levels:
REJECTED
INITIAL
BUILT
TESTED
RELEASED
default promotion level: INITIAL
Attributes:
FeatureLevel = 4
Hyperlinks:
AdminVOB <- vob:\comp1
AdminVOB <- vob:\comp2
- See what your primary group and group list consist of:
creds -w
Example:
C:\>creds -w
Login name: DOMAIN1\jdoe2
USID: NT:S-1-5-21-1607275091-1726037764-648285020-1004
Primary group: DOMAIN1\Domain Users (NT:S-1-5-21-1607275091-1726064-648280-513)
Groups: (7)
Everyone (NT:S-1-1-0)
DOMAIN1\clearuser121 (NT:S-1-5-21-1607275091-1726037764-648285020-1007)
BUILTIN\Administrators (NT:S-1-5-32-544)
BUILTIN\Users (NT:S-1-5-32-545)
LOCAL (NT:S-1-2-0)
NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE (NT:S-1-5-4)
NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users (NT:S-1-5-11)
You do not have ClearCase administrative privileges.
You are not logged into Windows NT domain.
- See what the CLEARCASE_PRIMARY_GROUP value is set to by running the set command.
set
Example:
C:\>set
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\IBM Employee\Application DataCLEARCASE_PRIMARY_GROUP=clearuser
<more data ... not included>
Note: In this case the user is not a member of the group clearuser (rather they are a member of clearuser121). The primary group variable is defaulting to the domain controller chosen primary group.
Resolving The Problem
Use the cleartool protectvob -add_group command on the project VOB to add a valid ClearCase primary group.
or
Add the group to which the PVOB is owned to the group list of the users and set it as your primary group within your account profile (on the primary domain controller) or using the CLEARCASE_PRIMARY_GROUP variable.
See technote 1135509 for more information about the CLEARCASE_PRIMARY_GROUP variable.
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Document Information
Modified date:
16 June 2018
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