1612745 - BI 4.x: Report Application Servers fail during startup (Linux / Unix)

• In a Linux or Unix SAP BI environment...
• Report Application Servers (RAS) are in Failed status, cannot be started successfully
• This server is considered failed because it has stopped 5 time(s) in 60 minute(s).
• Other server types are starting successfully
• Core dumps may be generated when attempting to start Report Application Servers
• Newly-created Report Application Servers exhibit the same behavior
• Crystal Reports Processing Servers may be equally impacted
   
• With tracing enabled, RAS log files contain messages like:
• Failed to create CrystalReports.AgentOptions. Please make sure DTSAgent.dll is installed. Also, make sure that DTSAgent.dll is registered as an in-process COM server by running the following on the command line: 'regsvr32.exe DTSAgent.dll
• Received eRpuDllLoadFailure or eRpuInitializationFailure from child. (RCIRAS0624)
• ras21-core: ChildProcessCreatorThread caught exception: <RASServerException ( errCode=<ErrorFailure> message=<An error occurred while creating a subprocess in the processing server.> rootCause=<RCIRAS0603> debugString=<[ProcWorkerManager.cpp : 6213] > message=<Internal error. Please contact your system administrator.> rootCause=<RCIRAS0603>
  
• With tracing enabled, RAS child process log files may show the following:
• ras21-core: caught IPSSException: <RASServerException ( errCode=<ErrorTryAgain> message=<Internal error. Please contact your system administrator.> rootCause=<RASPROCREPORT0135> debugString=<procreport DLL was not initialized successfull
  ras21-core: did not initialize sucessfully, so stopping immediately
   
• SIA trace logs include the following:
• Server Intelligence Agent: server <NODE>.CrystalReports2013ReportApplicationServer stopped with exit code = 255
• Server Intelligence Agent: server <NODE>.CrystalReports2013ReportApplicationServer stopped unexpectedly
   
• /var/log/messages file may include the following:
• A subprocess in the processing serer was forced to terminate. (RCIRAS0622)
• The function PEOpenEngineEx failed. Reason: Crystal Reports: Print Engine Error.
  
  
• Coredump shows below information:
• #0  0x00002aabfe5a7f97 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
  #1  0x00002aabfe5a936a in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6
  #2  0x000000000050297d in sig_abnormal_system_handler(int) ()
  #3  <signal handler called>
  #4  0x000000000050df69 in CDTSApp::TermCORBAServer() ()
  #5  0x0000000000516d66 in CDTSApp::ExitInstance() ()
  #6  0x0000000000578ca2 in AfxWinMain(HINSTANCE__*, HINSTANCE__*, wchar_t*, int) ()
  #7  0x00000000005b6bf0 in WinMain ()
  #8  0x00000000004f04db in main ()

• SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.x
• Unix / Linux

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