SAP GUI 7.20 PL5 -> Does NOT start

[Former Member]

Hi there,

I just installed PL5 for SAP GUI for Windows 7.20. I hoped this would fix the problem with the centralized saplogontree.xml as said in several notes.

But after I installed the patch, the GUI doesnt start anymore. The screen with the version number and the two people appears and after a few seconds disappears. The GUI doesnt start and I cant connect to our systems. There is no process running the GUI. I tried to reboot too, no success.

Any ideas? Possibly a bug?!

Anyone else having problems with the patch?

[Peter_Inotai · Accepted solution]

>Anyone else having problems with the patch?

I've just installed an hour ago. It doesn't seem to stable. It was hanging several times, I had to kill it. Probable I'll go back to PL4.

[Jelena]

This thread comes up as one of the first posts in Google search, so I'm just adding our variation of the issue here. We don't have a GUI server and such but one user started to have the same issue - the picture appears and that's it, nothing else happens. We tried tracing with no success, but this post clued me in on the possible issue. So I just started SAP GUI configuration (it's a program under 'SAP Front End' in Windows) and compared the settings to another PC where GUI worked. Lo and behold, somehow there was an odd HTTP address in the 'XML configuration file' field. I just removed it and it worked.

[Former Member]

After I corrected the adress for the saplogon.ini in the saplogontree.xml file on the webserver the GUI starts up normally. My fault was that I typed in the absolute path "http:://domain.tld/saplogon.ini" instead of just "domain.tld/saplogon.ini". The XML-file then linked to http://http://domain.tld/saplogon.ini

After I corrected the entry, the GUI starts normal.

Regards,

Jann