SAPINST guiengine: login timeout; the client was unable to establish valid

[Former Member]

sapinstGUI cannnot connect to sapinst.

Message :

<b>guiengine: login timeout; the client was unable to establish a valid connection</b>

The GUI with selectable install components never shows

Any idea?

I have been trying a lot of alternatives , and did quite some internet investigations, but to no avail.

<b>Details :</b>

WIN2003 SP1 with latest patches

All Firewalling turned off

sapinst 701 (as provided with Sol Mgr 4.0 ; ERP2005)

java 1.4.2.12. JAVA_HOME set to c:\j2sdk1.4.2_12 c:\j2sdk1.4.2_12\bin added to PATH

<b>Step 1 : Start sapinst without GUI</b>... it gives these messsages

<i>SAPinst is getting started.

Please be patient ...

starting gui server process:

sapinstport: 21200

guiport : 21212

guistart : false

command : "c:\j2sdk1.4.2_12/bin\javaw.exe" -cp "C:/DOCUME_1/ADMINI1/LOCALS_{1/Temp/sapinst_exe.2156.1168127928\jar\instgui.jar;C:/DOCUME}1/ADMINI_1/LOCALS1/Temp/sapinst_exe.2156.1168127928\jar\inqmyxml.jar" -Xmx256M -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true SDTServer config=jar:sdtserver.xml guiport=21212 sapinsthost=localhost sapinstport=21200

load resource pool F:\51031659_11\DVD_4.0_SAP_Solution_Manager_Inst_Master\IM_WINDOWS_I386\resourcepool.xml

guiengine: no GUI connected; waiting for a connection on host amms, port 21200 to continue with the installation</i>

netstat -a shows a.o. ....

<i>Active Connections

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State

TCP amms:epmap amms:0 LISTENING

TCP amms:microsoft-ds amms:0 LISTENING

TCP amms:1026 amms:0 LISTENING

TCP amms:21200 amms:0 LISTENING

TCP amms:21212 amms:0 LISTENING</i>

looks fine to me.

<b>Step 2 : start startinstgui ...</b>

messages in startinstgui window

<i>Java Runtime found in JAVA_HOME environment variable

Path: c:\j2sdk1.4.2_12\bin\java.exe

Start mode: gui (GUI only)

Connection parameters:

GUIServer host: localhost

GUIServer port: 21212

Starting...

<<< frog.jar: version 5.4.5 10/19/05 sap.theme: null >>></i>

messages in sapinst window :

<i>guiengine: login in process...............................

guiengine: login timeout; the client was unable to establish a valid connection

Exit status of child: 1</i>

The startinstgui terminates.

netstat -a reveals no lines anymore for the ports.

NOTE... when I start sapinst <b>with</b> GUI then the same sequence of messages.

BUT even after the sapinst is terminated netstat -a shows

TCP amms:1230 amms:21212 ESTABLISHED

TCP amms:1231 amms:21200 ESTABLISHED

TCP amms:21200 amms:1231 ESTABLISHED

TCP amms:21212 amms:1230 ESTABLISHED

I cannot get rid of those and need to reboot.

[Former Member]

Hi Reader

Solved myself.

Turned out to be that somehow Symantec Antivirus/AutoProtect was the cause of this behaviour. After restoring a 2003 image, created just before installing Symantec, running sapinst was no problem anymore.

(perhaps I had not the server version of Symantec software)

[Former Member]

I am working on Unix.

pls let me know the comand to view teh softwares installed

[Former Member]

Hi bart,

Yes I've also use the same MS Wndows Version and sapinst.

Have you tried to start sapinst from another installation master DVD?

regards

daniel

[Former Member]

Hi Daniel

Yes I did. From SolMgr, from Ides ERp2005, from SAPGUI 620; from InstallChecker...

all fail, albeit somewhat differently.

The symptoms I have seen all together much resembles :

So sometimes I seem to have had some luck but then i got stuck at "loading rsource pool"

But 95% of the time I cannot get that far.

Driving me really crazy.

Using W2000 server seems not to be an option as it complains about my large disks and finds the partitions corrupt and wants to delete trhem before progressing.

[Former Member]

Hi bart,

I'm wondering about the output of sapinst.exe -> "guistart : false"

When I'm starting sapinst.exe, I'll get following output:

SAPinst is getting started.

Please be patient ...

starting gui server process:

sapinstport: 21200

guiport : 21212

guistart : true

command : "C:\j2sdk1.4.2_12/bin\javaw.exe" -cp "C:/WINDOWS/TEMP/1/sapinst_exe.7184.1168268864\jar\instgui.jar;C:/WINDOWS/TEMP/1/sapinst_exe.7184.1168268864\jar\inqmyxml.jar" -Xmx256M -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true SDTServer config=jar:sdtserver.xml guiport=21212 sapinsthost=localhost sapinstport=21200 guistart=true

load resource pool F:\inst\IM_WINDOWS_I386\resourcepool.xml

guiengine: no GUI connected; waiting for a connection on host sapphirbwp, port 21200 to continue with the installation

guiengine: login in process.

Try to run sapinst from command line with parameter SAPINST_START_GUI set to true

(e.g. sapinst "SAPINST_START_GUI=true").

With sapinst -p you will get all possible parameters of sapinst (often usefull e.g. if you need to change port and don't know how).

Regards

Daniel

[Former Member]

Hi Daniel

Yes I did that first (see my original mail ..at the bottom for messages)

"<i>NOTE... when I start sapinst with GUI then the same sequence of messages.

BUT even after the sapinst is terminated netstat -a shows</i>"

.....

After that did not work .. I decoupled it ... starting sapinst without gui (SAPINST_START_GUI=false) and seperately there after startinstgui.bat.

You have sapinst 701 as well , working on Win2003SP1 ?

Thanks for thinking with me. Much appreciated.

[Former Member]

Hi bart,

Start sapinst.exe and you will get the install gui. startinstgui.bat try to connect to a sapinst process if you havent't started sapinst.exe you will never get a connection.

Regards

Daniel

[Former Member]

Hi Daniel

Thanks for your reply.

I did start sapinst first (see above step 1) and then started startinstgui (step 2).

And in the sapinst output window , i saw the gui trying to do the login... but failed,.

Must be something with security, would be my guess.

BTW was logged in as Administrator.

Any further ideas? Thanks.