After trying to run a failed upgrade to Vertica DB (network issues) we run into a situation that /opt/vertica/config folder permissions turns to root:root we couldn't run even admintools to see what's going on then we realized it's a permission issues on the config folder in order to fix it - simply change this folder permissions chown -R dbadmin:verticadba /opt/vertica/config good luck!
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