Hi Keyur,
I got exactly the same error.
This is what you might want to try:
1) Stop SWPM
2) Find 'keydb.xml' under sapinst_instdir
3) Edit keydb.xml and locate the failed step
4) change <fld name=STATUS">
<strval><![CDATA[ERROR]]>
to
<strval><![CDATA[OK]]>
5) Save your changes
6) Start the database manually
7) Restart SWPM, select the same processing option as before and choose "Continue with the old option" when asked.
HTH,
Kari
P.S. I raised customer message about this error and SAP replied that
if the database can be started manually then one can restart sapinst with
command "./sapinst SAPINST_SKIP_ERRORSTEP=true".
This, should it work, is of course easier than editing steering files...
Message was edited by: Sillanmäki Kari