BI production down

Hi,
While starting BI production server we are getting the following error
in sapstart.log
(770176) Starting: local se.sapFBP_DVEBMGS23
pf=/usr/sap/FBP/SYS/profile/FBP_DVEBMGS23_fbpci-db -F
(811034) Starting: local ig.sapFBP_DVEBMGS23 -mode=profile
pf=/usr/sap/FBP/SYS/profile/FBP_DVEBMGS23_fbpci-db
(483480) Waiting for Child Processes to terminate.
(811034) New Child Process created.
(811034) Starting local Command:
Command: ig.sapFBP_DVEBMGS23
-mode=profile
pf=/usr/sap/FBP/SYS/profile/FBP_DVEBMGS23_fbpci-db
(483480) **** 2007/05/19 11:06:57 Caught Signal to Stop all Programs.
(483480) Parent Shutdown at 2007/05/19 11:06:59
(483480) Stop Child Process: 811034
(483480) Wait 300 sec for Process 811034 terminating...
(483480) Stop Child Process: 770176
(483480) Wait 300 sec for Process 770176 terminating...
(483480) Stop Child Process: 368744
(483480) Wait 300 sec for Process 368744 terminating...
(483480) Stop Child Process: 950304
(483480) Wait 300 sec for Process 950304 terminating...
Execute Post-Shutdown Commands
(483480) Exiting with Return-Code 0. (Ok)
Cannot create Lock File. ("sapstart.sem" Invalid file system control
data detected)
(901218) Exiting with Return-Code -103. (Access permission denied)
Cannot create Lock File. ("sapstart.sem" Invalid file system control
data detected)
(745538) Exiting with Return-Code -103. (Access permission denied)
Cannot create Lock File. ("sapstart.sem" Invalid file system control
data detected)
(778438) Exiting with Return-Code -103. (Access permission denied)
We cleaned ipc and shared memory before starting the instance.
Please reply as it is our production system.
Regards,
Manish S.

Hi,
Could you please let me know the OS.
If the OS is AIX ..
Please use following commands
ICPS | grep -i <SID>
using the command ipcrm ... you have to clean memory sigments ..
ipcrm <-q or -s or -m options > process ID..
or
Restart server
Regards
Ben

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I have been doing this exact same work with Acrobat from the days of Live Cycle or what ever it was called, and just a few weeks ago I was creating the same interactive's using the same files for a different client, using the Acrobat 9 pro I believe in the built in "Forms" builder.
I think where I may have screwed up is I had always done my Reduce File Size before I made the form interactive, this time I happened to see that each page was over 1 MB and I know that the non-interactive version that I also post on our website is more like 200 KB, so when I saw that they were over 1 MB, I decided that I was going to use the Reduce File Size after I had finished all of my 13 pages of interactive's.
I did not think to check the first one to see that the interactive was still functional, and proceeded to change all of them by quickly opening doing the save as reduce file size and then closing, and it took a whole 3 minutes to undue/ ruin the hours of building the pages with the 30 to 50 field areas that were interactive.
I don't wish to replicate it right now, but I will attempt a test with some made up test files to verify when the deleting of the fields took place, because there was data in the fields, but it was now flat and when you click on the edit in forms, it asks if you want to have the wizard place fields because no fields are in the document, or something to that effect.
I will let you know the outcome of my experiment.
If you come up with any other info I would be very interested.
Thanks again for the help.
Sincerely,
Omnia Guy

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