Re: Unable to create a semaphore. (ARERR 8742)

2013-04-22 Thread Aditya C
Thanks Vaibhav, The problem was related to arserver not releasing Handles. it seems have resolved the issue. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:02 PM, vaibhav wadekar wadekar.vaib...@gmail.comwrote: ** It appears to be related to a bug # SW00445924 - Cant release the the file handles. You can track

Re: Unable to create a semaphore. (ARERR 8742)

2013-04-15 Thread Joe D'Souza
I've seen this happen a very long time ago, when I was using the AR System as a root user and had changed to non-root, and some of the semaphores were not gracefully shut down after shutting down the services as root. Then we had to kill those and then start as the non-root user. Have you done

Re: Unable to create a semaphore. (ARERR 8742)

2013-04-15 Thread Axton
What platform are you on? Are you using any virtualization (e.g., zones)? Axton Grams On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Aditya C adityarem...@gmail.com wrote: ** Hello, We are seeing lot of Semaphore errors in our Production environment. This is resulting the AR server crash every moment

Re: Unable to create a semaphore. (ARERR 8742)

2013-04-15 Thread Aditya C
Thanks for the replies... I am on Windows 2008 Platform with AR on 7.6.04 SP2 and DB as MS SQL 2008 On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Axton axton.gr...@gmail.com wrote: ** What platform are you on? Are you using any virtualization (e.g., zones)? Axton Grams On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:10

Re: Unable to create a semaphore. (ARERR 8742)

2013-04-15 Thread Axton
I would suggest installing sysinternal's process explorer to see what semaphores are being used/denied. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Aditya C adityarem...@gmail.com wrote: ** Thanks for the replies... I am on Windows 2008

Re: Unable to create a semaphore. (ARERR 8742)

2013-04-15 Thread Aditya C
Thanks Axton. ok let me try this utility. However the Windows account Initially used for the Installation of AR is deleted and there is another account by which AR services getting restarted. I am not sure whether this will cause semaphore errors. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Axton

Re: Unable to create a semaphore. (ARERR 8742)

2013-04-15 Thread vaibhav wadekar
It appears to be related to a bug # SW00445924 - Cant release the the file handles. You can track the Handles for arserver.exe (Task Manager, View Select Columns Check for handles). See if the handles count increasedecrease time to time or what is it when the server got crashed.