Can't start Foundation Services on Windows XP, Essbase 11.1.2

Question

Installation and & configuration were fine and everything worked for a while. Machine was rebooted. After that, I tried : "EPM System Start" from start menu, but it fails starting foundation services. I tried starting only Foundation services ... It is the same. In the starter log I can see:
Adding reference: ant.PropertyHelper
Detected Java version: 1.6 in: C:\Oracle\Middleware\jdk160_11\jre
Detected OS: Windows XP
Adding reference: ant.ComponentHelper
Setting ro project property: ant.file -> C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\common\config\11.1.2.0\resources\instance\start.xml
Adding reference: ant.projectHelper
Adding reference: ant.parsing.context
Adding reference: ant.targets
parsing buildfile C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\common\config\11.1.2.0\resources\instance\start.xml with URI = file:/C:/Oracle/Middleware/EPMSystem11R1/common/config/11.1.2.0/resources/instance/start.xml
Setting ro project property: ant.project.name -> start engine
Adding reference: start engine
Setting ro project property: ant.file.start engine -> C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\common\config\11.1.2.0\resources\instance\start.xml
Project base dir set to: C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\common\config\11.1.2.0\resources\instance
+Target:
+Target: start
+Target: stop
[antlib:org.apache.tools.ant] Could not load definitions from resource org/apache/tools/ant/antlib.xml. It could not be found.
[property] Loading Environment env.
Setting project property: env.TEMP -> C:\DOCUME~1\apsarch\LOCALS~1\Temp
Setting project property: env.INIT_PARAM -> EssbaseAdminServices.properties
Setting project property: env.JAVA_HOME -> C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\..\jdk160_11
Setting project property: env.CLASSPATH -> .;C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\common\utilities\Ant\1.7.0\lib;C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\..\jdk160_11\lib;C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\common\config\11.1.2.0\configtool.jar;
Setting project property: env.day -> 18
Setting project property: env.ProgramFiles -> C:\Program Files
Setting project property: env.Path -> C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\common\config\11.1.2.0;C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1/products/Essbase/EssbaseServer/bin;C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\products\Essbase\EssbaseClient\bin;C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\products\Essbase\EssbaseClient;;C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\common\EssbaseRTC\11.1.2.0;C:\Oracle\Middleware\ohs\bin;C:\Oracle\Middleware\ohs\opmn\bin;C:\Oracle\Middleware\ohs\opmn\lib;C:\Oracle\Middleware\ohs\perl\bin;C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\common\ODBC\Merant\6.0\Drivers;C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\products\Essbase\eas\console\bin;C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\products\Essbase\eas\server\bin;C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\common\JRE\Sun\1.6.0\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\common\utilities\Ant\1.7.0\bin;C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\..\jdk160_11\bin;
Setting project property: env.SESSIONNAME -> RDP-Tcp#1
Setting project property: env.EPM_ORACLE_INSTANCE -> C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem1
Setting project property: env.SystemRoot -> C:\WINDOWS
Setting project property: env.EPM_ORACLE_HOME -> C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1
Setting project property: env.USERNAME -> apsarch
Setting project property: env.APS_HOME -> C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\products\Essbase\aps
Setting project property: env._JAVACMD -> C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\..\jdk160_11\bin\java.exe
Setting project property: env.PROCESSOR_LEVEL -> 15
Setting project property: env.VSEDEFLOGDIR -> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection
Setting project property: env.FP_NO_HOST_CHECK -> NO
Setting project property: env.USERPROFILE -> C:\Documents and Settings\apsarch
Setting project property: env.PROCESSOR_REVISION -> 0209
Setting project property: env.timestamp -> 20100618T052007
Setting project property: env.CommonProgramFiles -> C:\Program Files\Common Files
Setting project property: env.ANT_CMD_LINE_ARGS -> -debug -f C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\common\config\11.1.2.0\resources\instance\start.xml start -logfile C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem1\diagnostics\logs\starter\starter20100618T052007.log
Setting project property: env.HOMEPATH -> \Documents and Settings\apsarch
Setting project property: env.HYPERION_HOME -> C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1
Setting project property: env.minute -> 20
Setting project property: env.PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE -> x86
Setting project property: env.OS -> Windows_NT
Setting project property: env.EAS_HOME -> C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\products\Essbase\eas\server
Setting project property: env.CLIENTNAME -> Console
Setting project property: env.ComSpec -> C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
Setting project property: env.PATHEXT -> .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.PSC1
Setting project property: env.PROMPT -> $P$G
Setting project property: env.dow -> Fri
Setting project property: env.ALLUSERSPROFILE -> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
Setting project property: env.ESSLANG -> English_UnitedStates.Latin1@Binary
Setting project property: env.HOMEDRIVE -> C:
Setting project property: env.year -> 2010
Setting project property: env.PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER -> x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel
Setting project property: env.APPDATA -> C:\Documents and Settings\apsarch\Application Data
Setting project property: env.ESSBASEPATH -> C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\products\Essbase\EssbaseClient
Setting project property: env.NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS -> 1
Setting project property: env.month -> 06
Setting project property: env.second -> 07
Setting project property: env.ANT_HOME -> C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\common\utilities\Ant\1.7.0
Setting project property: env._USE_CLASSPATH -> yes
Setting project property: env.DEFLOGDIR -> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection
Setting project property: env.ARBORPATH -> C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\products\Essbase\EssbaseClient
Setting project property: env.SystemDrive -> C:
Setting project property: env.TMP -> C:\DOCUME~1\apsarch\LOCALS~1\Temp
Setting project property: env.USERDOMAIN -> RYLIU-TEST
Setting project property: env.tvdebugflags -> 0x20805
Setting project property: env.hour -> 05
Setting project property: env.windir -> C:\WINDOWS
Setting project property: env.COMPUTERNAME -> RYLIU-TEST
Setting project property: env.LOGONSERVER -> \\RYLIU-TEST
Class com.hyperion.cis.ant.starter.StarterEngine loaded from parent loader (parentFirst)
+Datatype starter com.hyperion.cis.ant.starter.StarterEngine
Attempting to create object of type org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor
Adding reference: ant.executor
Build sequence for target(s) `start' is [start]
Complete build sequence is [start, stop, ]
start:
[starter] Starting component: FoundationServices.properties
[starter] Selected starter: com.hyperion.cis.ant.starter.ServiceStarter@b9b538[name=HyS9FoundationServices,checker=com.hyperion.cis.ant.starter.checkers.J2eeChecker@1e1a408,engine=<null>,id=<null>,type=<null>,waitFor=true,running=false,timeout=500000,interval=5000,softDependency=[],strongDependency=[],isExecuted=false]
[starter] Start time: Fri Jun 18 05:20:16 PDT 2010
[starter] End time: Fri Jun 18 05:30:11 PDT 2010. Delay : 595063ms
[starter] Operation 'start' wasn't completed
[starter] Starting component: EssbaseAdminServices.properties
[starter] Selected starter: com.hyperion.cis.ant.starter.ServiceStarter@1835282[name=HyS9eas,checker=com.hyperion.cis.ant.starter.checkers.J2eeChecker@9df354,engine=<null>,id=<null>,type=<null>,waitFor=true,running=false,timeout=500000,interval=5000,softDependency=[FoundationServices.properties],strongDependency=[],isExecuted=false]
[starter] Start time: Fri Jun 18 05:30:16 PDT 2010
[starter] End time: Fri Jun 18 05:40:11 PDT 2010. Delay : 595313ms
[starter] Operation 'start' wasn't completed
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 20 minutes 1 second
I need to run Admin Services Console & essmsh. If I try to run Admin Service Console it has error: "Could not connect to admin server" and after thae "EAS server not available". How can I start Essbase? After reboot, I can see only Hyperion Integration service started - all others not (they are set to Automatic start). Also, I see ESSBASE.exe process and couple of opmn.exe ...
Does anything else has to be started before starting EPM System start script? I really appreciate any help!

Answer 1

Can't you install Essbase 11.1.1.x to not use Shared Services?
From the 11.1.1.3 install guide:
If you want to install Essbase in standalone mode (not using Shared Services), you can skip the installation for Shared Services. However, you must configure the Oracle's Hyperion Shared Services Registry database. To configure the Shared Services Registry database without installing Shared Services, see “Setting Up the Shared Services Registry Without Installing Shared Services” on page 112.And from page 112:
If you want to install Essbase in standalone mode (not using Shared Services), you can skip the installation for Shared Services. However, you must still configure the Shared Services Registry database. To configure the Shared Services Registry database without installing Shared Services, you run EPM System Configurator from the command line using the –forceRegistry option. This option forces the “Shared Services and Registry Database Configuration” page to display during configuration so you can enter database details for the Shared Services Registry. EPM System Configurator populates the database with tables for the Shared Services Registry, but not for Shared Services.I'm pretty sure people are running Essbase on XP boxes. That includes EAS, and maybe APS for SmartView, and that's pretty much it.
For sure XP isn't a supported environment.
Regards,
Cameron Lackpour