I'm trying to get the LASR Server started (vs 7.3 on REHL). We did have it running once a month or so again when first installed but something's changed since then. I get the error: ERROR: Failed to load analytic extension for the distributed computing environment. I am starting as the user sas, which has SSH (passwordless) keys set up between the main server and 3 distributed servers for VA. I found this article: http://support.sas.com/kb/60/126.html and was able to verify the SSH works for sas between nodes (/opt/TKGrid/bin/simsh /opt/TKGrid/bin/simsh hostname). At the bottom of the article was info & I confirmed I'm using RSA keys, and keys are stored in $HOME/.ssh. I think this may be true: SSH authentication is performed using GSSAPIAuthentication (based on Kerberos) so I tried the next tip (setting GRIDRSHCOMMAND) - tried in the sasv9_local.cfg. This seemd to hang the start process (rather than return an error message). Any ideas to debug are welcome. Do have a ticket open also.
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