SAP Install Error( Starting Instance Phase )

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

Lets start from the beginning; I'm still a student and I luckily found a software company that wanted to hire me before I finished my studies. I started doing some QA and now they moved me to SAP Testing. Now the thing is, I'm the only one doing SAP here. Nobody knows about it or anything. The only thing my boss wants from me is to install SAP (should be easy right?) on a local system here.

Here is my problem. I've found countless guides on how to install it. with detailed steps. None of them worked out. I'm always getting one particular error. Its at the starting instance phase (27 of 47)

Attached is a Screen shot of the Error ( SAP Error.bmp )

Please note in the screen shots the SAP System ID is APZ, and in my error the SAP System ID is AP0. The error screenshot was taken at a different attempt to install.

There is also a .RTF Documents with the detailed steps I followed to install SAP. (SAP_Install_guide_Modified.rtf)

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

I can also attach the error logs that I get if its useful.

Thanks a lot guys! please let me know

Thanks, Eric

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27336118/SAP_Install.rar

*System specs

Don't know if this helps or not but

Core I7 950

12GB DDR3 1333

OS drive 500GB WD caviar blue

Oracle and SAP drive 1TB WD caviar black

[JPReyes · Accepted solution]

Seems like a problem to start the instance, check dev_disp and dev_w0 for errors and post them here. You'll find those at /usr/sap/<sid>/<instance>/work

Regards

Juan

[Former Member]

Thanks guys this worked fine and my boss is happy ! If you ever come by Ottawa in Canada give me a shout and I will buy you a beer

[Former Member]

I still started the installation with 36GB, lets hope that won't mess it up,

I've gotten a new error at Phase 18 of 47, in the import ABAP.

Here is the error

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27336118/import%20ABAP.bmp

So I just keep clicking retry, and it worked out great... now im on to phase 20 of 47, lets hope everything goes well from here.

Edited by: EDumouchel on Jun 7, 2011 6:19 PM

[JPReyes]

You should have read the errors in the import logs... if there was a problem during the import load then most likely will be an issue later.

Regards

Juan

[Former Member]

hi Juan and spantaleoni,

My current page file was 2GB, since my RAM is 12GB, should I still use 3X more? so 36gb of page files?

I'm currently repaving my system to retry the install. thanks a lot for the quick reply's, you guys are awesome

Eric.

[JPReyes]

Usually a 20Gb page file is good enough when running a 64bit windows box.

Good luck

Regards

Juan

[Former Member]

Also this, (sorry I had to double post. the formating was not done correctly.)

Slots: 300, Used: 0, Max: 0

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NiWait: sleep (5000ms) ...

NiISelect: timeout 5000ms

NiISelect: maximum fd=1

NiISelect: read-mask is NULL

NiISelect: write-mask is NULL

Fri Jun 03 13:53:24 2011

NiISelect: TIMEOUT occured (5000ms)

DpHalt: shutdown server >saptester1_AP0_10 < (normal)

DpJ2eeDisableRestart

Switch off Shared memory profiling

ShmProtect( 57, 3 )

ShmProtect(SHM_PROFILE, SHM_PROT_RW

ShmProtect( 57, 1 )

ShmProtect(SHM_PROFILE, SHM_PROT_RD

DpWakeUpWps: wake up all wp's

Stop work processes

Terminate gui connections

wait for end of work processes

not attached to the message server

cleanup EM

EsCleanup ....

EmCleanup() -> 0

Es2Cleanup: Cleanup ES2

***LOG Q05=> DpHalt, DPStop ( 1712) [dpxxdisp.c 10421]

Good Bye .....

[JPReyes]

Seems like the dispatcher is crashing but you have not posted the full log... I can presume you either have a problem with your instance parameters or your kernel is not the right one.

Can you add the rest of the dev_disp log?

Regards

Juan

[JPReyes]

Sorry, missed the log link...

ERROR => <EsNT> paging file too small for 2044 MB mapfile [esnti.c      1186]

Seems like you are running out of memory... whats the size of your page file?

The thumb rule is that your page file should be at least 3 times the size of your physical memory

Regards

Juan

[Former Member]

For PagingFile is raccomended min. 4096Mb (both Initial Size and Maximum Size, and not "extend dinamically")

[Former Member]

Hello Juan,

Thanks for the quick reply!

The dev_w0 was empty, but the dev_disp has some text in it. Here is everything that seems like a error to me..

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No Ty. Pid Status Cause Start Err Sem CPU Time Program Cl User Action Table

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• ERROR => DpRqTxt: bad rqtype -1 [dpxxrq.c 785]

0 ? -1 Free no 0 0 0

• ERROR => DpRqTxt: bad rqtype -1 [dpxxrq.c 785]

1 ? -1 Free no 0 0 0

• ERROR => DpRqTxt: bad rqtype -1 [dpxxrq.c 785]

2 ? -1 Free no 0 0 0

• ERROR => DpRqTxt: bad rqtype -1 [dpxxrq.c 785]

3 ? -1 Free no 0 0 0

• ERROR => DpRqTxt: bad rqtype -1 [dpxxrq.c 785]

4 ? -1 Free no 0 0 0

• ERROR => DpRqTxt: bad rqtype -1 [dpxxrq.c 785]

5 ? -1 Free no 0 0 0

• ERROR => DpRqTxt: bad rqtype -1 [dpxxrq.c 785]

6 ? -1 Free no 0 0 0

• ERROR => DpRqTxt: bad rqtype -1 [dpxxrq.c 785]

7 ? -1 Free no 0 0 0

• ERROR => DpRqTxt: bad rqtype -1 [dpxxrq.c 785]

8 ? -1 Free no 0 0 0

• ERROR => DpRqTxt: bad rqtype -1 [dpxxrq.c 785]

9 ? -1 Free no 0 0 0

• ERROR => DpRqTxt: bad rqtype -1 [dpxxrq.c 785]

10 ? -1 Free no 0 0 0

• ERROR => DpRqTxt: bad rqtype -1 [dpxxrq.c 785]

11 ? -1 Free no 0 0 0

• ERROR => DpRqTxt: bad rqtype -1 [dpxxrq.c 785]

12 ? -1 Free no 0 0 0

• ERROR => DpRqTxt: bad rqtype -1 [dpxxrq.c 785]

13 ? -1 Free no 0 0 0

• ERROR => DpRqTxt: bad rqtype -1 [dpxxrq.c 785]

14 ? -1 Free no 0 0 0

• ERROR => DpRqTxt: bad rqtype -1 [dpxxrq.c 785]

15 ? -1 Free no 0 0 0

• ERROR => DpRqTxt: bad rqtype -1 [dpxxrq.c 785]

16 ? -1 Free no 0 0 0

Dispatcher Queue Statistics Fri Jun 03 17:53:19 2011

If this does not help I put a link to the file it self.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27336118/dev_disp.txt

Thanks again.

Edited by: EDumouchel on Jun 7, 2011 3:20 PM

Edited by: EDumouchel on Jun 7, 2011 3:20 PM