R16 Open Failed, Error 13

[Former Member]

Hi Everyone

We are having an issue with an SAP app server, sm21 logs show a repeated error for any kind of dialog or background work process with no pattern and all have the same error message " R16 Open Failed, Error 13". No upgrade or patch was done, although teh data was recently refreshed.

Our SAP 4.7 runs on HPUX with Oracle. Any help on this will be appreciated.

"Client.............. 900"

"Terminal............ 132.189."

"Session............. 1"

Transaction code....

"Program name........ SAPMSSY1"

"Problem class....... K SAP Web AS Problem"

"Development class... STSK"

Further details for this message type

"Module name......... pfxxstat"

"Line................ 5200"

"Error text.......... 13"

"Caller.............. PfStatO"

"Reason/called....... open fa"

"Documentation for system log message R1 6 :"

" The open command has failed. Use the errno value to analyze the"

" reason."

Technical details

"File................ 000050"

"Position............ 0000358560"

"Entry type.......... m ( Error (Function" Module "Row) )"

"Message ID.......... R1 6"

"Variable parts...... 13 PfStatOopen fapfxxstat5200"

Thanks

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello,

This looks like a filesystem permissions problem.

Apparently the stat file cannot be opened.

What do the permissions and ownership of the file look like?

Look at this file

/usr/sap/<SID>/<instance>/data/stat

Good luck.

Alfonso

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks, that was it.