EIDY 1348820 - sapstartsrv hangs after receiving "StopService' request
Version 1 Validity: 03.08.2009- active Language English (Mester)
Header Data
Released On 04.09.2009 12-51-18,
Release Status Released for Customer
Component —_BC-CCILMON CCMS Monitoring & Alerting
Other Components BC-CST-STS Startup Sermce
Priority Comrecbon wth high poaty
Category Program enor
‘Symptom
Sapstartsry process becomes unresponsive after receiving the shutdown request. The process does not
exist clearly after receiving shutdown requests either per calling of "Stopservice” web-method, or
by receiving the TERM signal. Following the shutdown request sapstartsry process does not respond to
the subsequent web-method calls and write no Togs
‘SAP installation and SAP upgrade script sapinst may hang and fail as a side effect of this problem,
because running sapstartsry process do not release files. After the following command:
sapcontrol -prot NI_HTTP -nr 00 -function stopser
you may see numerous Tines in the subsequent log files ‘sapcontrol__.1og" Tike this
GetInstanceProperties
FATL: NIECONN_REFUSED (Connection refused), NiRawConnect failed in plugin_fopen()
Other Terms
sapstartsry deadlock shutdown nutex sapinst Stopservice
Reason and Prerequisites
‘The cause of the problem is a deadlock of threads occurring during the shutdown sequence. this is
the Software error (design defect). The problem has been reported on Linux as well as windows
platforms.
‘Solution
Workaround:
If it is applicable, kill the sapstartsry process using "ki1] -9" command or an equivalent for your
conrespandent platfonn,
Fix:
Upgrade the sapstartsry from the package saphostagent.sar to the CCMS Patch Collection 2009/3 or
jater. Sapstartsry will be also updated with the Kernel update (package dw.sar). Please see the
related notes for the exact patch numbers of the correspondent packages.
Validity
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References
This document refers to:
SAP Notes
41885845 SAP composite note: sapcontrol
1304480 GMS agent and kemet patches 2009
This document is referenced by:SAP Notes (2)
1304480 CMS agent and kemet naiches 2000
1585645 SAP composite nol sancontol