2205969 - ASE user logins hang. sp_who shows cmd - MAINTENANCE TOKEN - SAP ASE

• ASE user logins hang and the login never completes. sp_who shows the command as MAINTENANCE TOKEN and a dbcc stacktrace shows the following:
     
    upsleepgeneric
    uboallocw
    send_audit
    form_and_send_audit
    chk_and_send_audit
    gen_auditrecord
    login
    conn_hdlr
     
• send_audit indicates that auditing is enabled and that logins are being audited.
     
• ASE log shows:
     
  AUDIT PROCESS EXCEPTION: Can't allocate space for either syslogs or the current sysaudit table in database 'sybsecurity' because the corresponding segment is full/has no free extents. Please refer to Security Administration Guide for details.
     
• Over time, the ASE runs out of user connections. Error 1601 is reported in the ASE errorlog
           
  Error: 1601, Severity: 17, State: 3
  There are not enough 'user connections' available to start a new process. Retry when there are fewer active users, or ask your System Administrator to reconfigure ASE with more user connections.

• SAP Adaptive Server Entrprise (ASE) 15.7.x
• SAP Adaptive Server Entrprise (ASE) 16.0

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