3020873 - Server fails to start with error 840 on a device followed by error 3404 master database - SAP ASE

• ASE server bot fails with error 840 and error 3404
• The 840 error can be seen on a system database device (likely sybsystemprocs device) or a user database device 
• Log entries show:
  
  Error: 840, Severity: 17, State: 2
  Device 'sysprocsdev' (with physical name '$SYBASE/data01/sybprocs.dat', and virtual device number 1) has not been correctly activated at startup time.
  Error: 3404, Severity: 21, State: 1
  Rec_complete: Could not open controlling database (id 31514) of controlling database in multi-db transaction.
  Cannot recover the master database, exiting.
  ueshutdown: exiting
  
  
• Generally, there are preceding errors at runtime that indicate (severe) corruption issues with the database, data and/or log device from the 840 error

SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) - All versions

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