Installing Solution Manager 4 error

Question

I am trying to installing Solution Manager 4 onto a server which has an existing installation of SMD on it already. The play was to install SM4 and then migrate SMD to it at a later time.
While running through the system information check (this runs after I have input the path to the java component DVD and the location of the JCE policy) an is returned "type of instance in cache is wrong".
This seems to be related to SMD, the sapinst_dev.log:
TRACE      [iaxxejsexp.cpp:188]
           EJS_Installer::writeTraceToLogBook()
2006-05-10 16:45:00.953 NWInstance._fromRow()
TRACE      [iaxxejsexp.cpp:188]
           EJS_Installer::writeTraceToLogBook()
2006-05-10 16:45:00.953 NWInstance._fromRow() found instance in cache.
TRACE      [iaxxejsexp.cpp:188]
           EJS_Installer::writeTraceToLogBook()
2006-05-10 16:45:00.953 NWInstance._fromRow() done
TRACE      [iaxxejsexp.cpp:188]
           EJS_Installer::writeTraceToLogBook()
2006-05-10 16:45:00.953 NWInstance._fromRow()
TRACE      [iaxxejsexp.cpp:188]
           EJS_Installer::writeTraceToLogBook()
2006-05-10 16:45:00.953 NWInstance._fromRow() found instance in cache.
TRACE      [iaxxejsexp.cpp:188]
           EJS_Installer::writeTraceToLogBook()
2006-05-10 16:45:00.953 NWInstance._fromRow() done
TRACE      [iaxxejsexp.cpp:188]
           EJS_Installer::writeTraceToLogBook()
2006-05-10 16:45:00.953 NWInstance._fromRow()
TRACE      [iaxxejsexp.cpp:188]
           EJS_Installer::writeTraceToLogBook()
2006-05-10 16:45:00.953 NWInstance._fromRow() found instance in cache.
ERROR      2006-05-10 16:45:00 [iaxxinscbk.cpp:271]
           abortInstallation
CJS-00030  Assertion failed: in
function (theRow) {
    NW.trace("NWInstance._fromRow(", dump_properties(theRow), ")");
    var name = theRow.name;
    var type = theRow.type;
    var retval;
    var key = NWInstance._whereFromRow(theRow);
    var fromCache = NWInstance._cache[key];
    if (fromCache) {
        NW.trace("NWInstance._fromRow() found instance in cache.");
        retval = fromCache;
        ASSERT(arguments.callee, retval.getType() == type, "type of instance in cache is wrong");
Has anyone come across this, or have any suggestions on what might be happening.
Thanks,
David

Answer 1

Hello,
I know this is old, but I faced the same problem and the steps I did to resolve were:
1) Make sure there is nothing else under /usr/sap/<SID> and /sapmnt/<SID>
2) Stop SAPinst and remove sapinst_dir
3) Clean or remove /usr/sap/sapservices file
Good Luck!
Cleiton