Error Using OEM to create export files

Question

Hi
I get the following error whenever I try to use OEM to create export files (login to OS as oracle user -> http://localhost:1158/em -> login as SYSTEM -> Maintenance -> Export to Export Files (with oracle user as host credentials)
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Validation Error
Examine and correct the following errors, then retry the operation:
Error - ERROR: NMO not setuid-root (Unix-only)
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From what I've read in this forum and in others is that the problem is often related to the owner/group permissions associated with the bin/nmo and bin/nmb files. However I've tried the posted solutions by changing the owner/permissions as suggested, but this does not help. I get the same error regardless if the files are owned by oracle or by root.
Here is some more info
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[root@rhlinux bin]# id oracle
uid=501(oracle) gid=502(dba) groups=502(dba)
[root@rhlinux bin]# ls -ld /app/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 6 13:36 /app/
[root@rhlinux bin]# ls -ld /app/oracle/
drwxrwxr-x 5 oracle dba 4096 Jul 10 10:13 /app/oracle/
[root@rhlinux bin]# ls -ld /app/oracle/product/
drwxrwx--- 3 oracle dba 4096 Jul 6 16:04 /app/oracle/product/
[root@rhlinux bin]# ls -ld /app/oracle/product/v10.2.0/
drwxr-x--- 58 oracle dba 4096 Jul 11 15:31 /app/oracle/product/v10.2.0/
[root@rhlinux bin]# ls -ld /app/oracle/product/v10.2.0/bin/
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle dba 8192 Jul 20 11:19 /app/oracle/product/v10.2.0/bin/
[root@rhlinux bin]# ll nm?
-rwxr-x--- 1 root dba 18462 Jul 6 16:16 nmb
-rwxr-x--- 1 root dba 19624 Jul 6 16:16 nmo
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[oracle@rhlinux bin]$ uname -a
Linux rhlinux 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL #1 Fri Jun 30 10:23:19 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
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[oracle@rhlinux bin]$ sqlplus system@dware
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Jul 20 16:34:16 2006
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Enter password:
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
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[oracle@rhlinux bin]$ emctl status agent
TZ set to Canada/Saskatchewan
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Database Control Release 10.2.0.1.0
Copyright (c) 1996, 2005 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Agent Version : 10.1.0.4.1
OMS Version : 10.1.0.4.0
Protocol Version : 10.1.0.2.0
Agent Home : /app/oracle/product/v10.2.0/rhlinux.swlocal_DWARE
Agent binaries : /app/oracle/product/v10.2.0
Agent Process ID : 32098
Parent Process ID : 30792
Agent URL : http://rhlinux.swlocal:3938/emd/main
Started at : 2006-07-20 12:00:05
Started by user : oracle
Last Reload : 2006-07-20 12:00:05
Last successful upload : 2006-07-20 16:27:29
Total Megabytes of XML files uploaded so far : 1.54
Number of XML files pending upload : 0
Size of XML files pending upload(MB) : 0.00
Available disk space on upload filesystem : 47.83%
Agent is Running and Ready
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[oracle@rhlinux bin]$ emctl status dbconsole
TZ set to Canada/Saskatchewan
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Database Control Release 10.2.0.1.0
Copyright (c) 1996, 2005 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
http://rhlinux.swlocal:1158/em/console/aboutApplication
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g is running.
Logs are generated in directory /app/oracle/product/v10.2.0/rhlinux.swlocal_DWARE/sysman/log
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Any other ideas what might be causing this problem?
Thanks and take care,
Shayne

Answer 1

From what I've read in this forum and in others is
that the problem is often related to the owner/group
permissions associated with the bin/nmo and bin/nmb
files. However I've tried the posted solutions by
changing the owner/permissions as suggested, but this
does not help. I get the same error regardless if the
files are owned by oracle or by root.
I am not sure which "posted solutions" you had, but this is related to not running root.sh which must be run against the Agent Home.
1. Stop the Agent (emctl stop agent) while connected to the OS as Oracle user (normally oracle) that installed Grid Control
2. Connect to the OS as root and run root.sh from Agent ORACLE_HOME (if you do not have root access, your System Admin can do it)
3. Start the Agent (emctl start agent) while connected to the OS as Oracle user