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During installation, by default, temporary files will be created 
under /tmp directory. However one can change the location of 
temporary files using DB2TMPDIR variable. 
If one is using non default location to store temporary files 
i.e some other directory than /tmp, DB2 will still try to write 
temporary files to /tmp directory causing error message like 
below: 
DBI20043E DB2 failed to install because of restrictive 
permission settings on the temporary directory, "/tmp". , 
 
In installation trace, you may see flow like below: 
 
1787 / 1 iFileExists ENTRY Tue Apr 22 13:18:22 2014 -- , 
1788 | 1 iFileExists 10 -DATA- , STRING = /tmp/recovery.txt 
1789 \ 1 iFileExists EXIT Tue Apr 22 13:18:22 2014 -- , UINT = 0 
1790 / 1 validateInstanceUser ENTRY Tue Apr 22 13:18:22 2014 -- 
, 
1791 |/ 1 URE::isURERunnerRoot ENTRY Tue Apr 22 13:18:22 2014 -- 
, 
1792 ||/ 1 URE::getURERunnerUid ENTRY Tue Apr 22 13:18:22 2014 
-- , 
1793 |||/ 1 IUser::getUID ENTRY Tue Apr 22 13:18:22 2014 -- , 
1794 ||||/ 1 UserManager::getUserID ENTRY Tue Apr 22 13:18:22 
2014 -- , 
1795 ||||\ 1 UserManager::getUserID EXIT Tue Apr 22 13:18:22 
2014 -- , INT = 0 
1796 |||\ 1 IUser::getUID EXIT Tue Apr 22 13:18:22 2014 -- , INT 
= 0 
1797 ||\ 1 URE::getURERunnerUid EXIT Tue Apr 22 13:18:22 2014 -- 
, INT = 0 
1798 |\ 1 URE::isURERunnerRoot EXIT Tue Apr 22 13:18:22 2014 -- 
, UINT = 1 
1799 \ 1 validateInstanceUser EXIT Tue Apr 22 13:18:22 2014 -- , 
INT = 0 
1800 / 1 URE::setPackageLocation ENTRY Tue Apr 22 13:18:22 2014 
-- , 
1801 | 1 URE::setPackageLocation 10 -DATA- , STRING = 
/download/srv/7.1/repository/native/db2/ese 
1802 \ 1 URE::setPackageLocation EXIT Tue Apr 22 13:18:22 2014 
-- , INT = 0 
1803 / 1 checkSpace ENTRY Tue Apr 22 13:18:22 2014 -- , 
1804 | 1 checkSpace 111 -ERROR- , INT = 950 
1805 | INFORMATION-1 iSilentInstallMain 111 -- DBI20043E DB2 
failed to install because of restrictive permission settings on 
the temporary directory, "/tmp". ,

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* USERS AFFECTED:                                              * 
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* PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         * 
* See Error Description                                        * 
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* RECOMMENDATION:                                              * 
* Upgrade to version 10.5 Fix Pack 5 or higher.                * 
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Use /tmp as temp file directory

First fixed in version 10.5 Fix Pack 5.

not known / see Local fix

Date  - problem reported    :
Date  - problem closed      :
Date  - last modified       :

29.05.2014
17.03.2015
17.03.2015