NOT POSSIBLE TO START ESSBASE WHEN SSO INITIALIZATION FAILS

Question

Version is 11.1.1.3. My Essbase is not starting. Issues from the logs and what I have attempted are as follows. I have highlighted the relevant areas in bold.
When Starting Essbase from products/Essbase/bin/start.bat:
C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\bin>start.bat
C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\bin>REM eis
C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\bin>net start "Hyperion Integration Services"
The requested service has already been started.
More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2182.
C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\bin>REM APS
C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\bin>call C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\aps\bin\start.bat
C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\bin>REM aps
C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\bin>net start HyS9aps
The requested service has already been started.
More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2182.
C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\bin>REM EAS
C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\bin>call C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\eas\bin\start.bat
C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\bin>REM eas
C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\bin>net start HyS9eas
The requested service has already been started.
More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2182.
C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\bin>REM EssbaseAgent
C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\bin>net start hypservice_1
The service name is invalid.
More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2185.
C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\bin>REM EssbaseStudio
C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\bin>C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\EssbaseStudio\Server\startServer.bat
C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\bin>setlocal
C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\bin>set CONFIGTOOL_HOME="C:\Hyperion\common\config\9.5.0.0"
C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\bin>call ""C:\Hyperion\common\config\9.5.0.0"\setJavaRuntime.bat"
Logging configuration file is not found. Expected filename is C:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\bin\.\server.properties
Log file location is:
C:\Hyperion\logs\esbstudio\server.log
13:23:09 11/01/11 INFO Starting up
13:23:09 11/01/11 INFO Oracle Essbase Studio Server. Version 11.1.1.3.00, Bui
ld 090, June 25 2009
13:23:16 11/01/11 (system) WARNING Failed to load driver for sap
13:23:16 11/01/11 (system) SEVERE Cannot load Teradata connector
13:23:16 11/01/11 (system) WARNING Failed to load driver for teradata
13:23:16 11/01/11 (system) WARNING Failed to load driver for mysql
13:23:16 11/01/11 (system) WARNING Failed to load driver for netezza
Essbase.log:
[Tue Oct 25 11:26:31 2011]Local/ESSBASE0///Error(1051223)
Single Sign On function call [css_init] failed with error [CSS Error: CSS method invocation error: com.hyperion.css.CSSSystem.<init>]
[Tue Oct 25 11:26:31 2011]Local/ESSBASE0///Info(1051198)
Single Sign-On Initialization Failed !
[Tue Oct 25 11:26:31 2011]Local/ESSBASE0///Info(1051232)
Using English_UnitedStates.Latin1@Binary as the Essbase Locale
[Tue Oct 25 11:26:31 2011]Local/ESSBASE0///Error(1051527)
In Shared Services Security mode it is not possible to start Essbase when single sign on initialization fails.
AND
C:\Hyperion\logs\essbase\SharedServices_Security_Client.log com.hyperion.css.CSSSystem.<init>(Unknown Source)
2011-10-25 11:26:11,039 INFO [main] Configure CSS with registry com.hyperion.css.CSSSystem.initCSSSystem(Unknown Source)
2011-10-25 11:26:11,039 INFO [main] Initializing CSS from Registry. com.hyperion.css.common.configuration.CSSConfigurationManager.getConfiguration(Unknown Source)
2011-10-25 11:26:11,085 INFO [main] Trying to get Registry Instance com.hyperion.css.registry.RegistryManager.<init>(Unknown Source)
2011-10-25 11:26:31,023 ERROR [main] 20:1092:Failed to initialize EPM System registry. *[Root Cause: java.sql.SQLException: [Hyperion][SQLServer JDBC Driver]Error establishing socket to host and port: machinex:1433. Reason: Connection refused: connect ] com.hyperion.css.registry.RegistryManager.<init>(Unknown Source)*
*2011-10-25 11:26:31,023 ERROR [main] Arguments: param1={}, param2=null, param3=C:\Hyperion\logs\essbase\,* com.hyperion.css.CSSSystem.initCSSSystem(Unknown Source)
2011-10-25 11:26:31,023 INFO [main] CSS system intialization failed. : [21484 ms] com.hyperion.css.CSSSystem.initCSSSystem(Unknown Source)
What I have attempted:
- Attempted to connect to Shared Services, Workspace url's - YES
- Checked openLDAP & my Database is running - YES
- Added following to Configuration File :
SharedServicesLocation machinex 28080
AUTHENTICATIONMODULE CSS http://machinex:28080/interop/framework/getCSSConfigFile YES, but same error
- Changed essbase.bak to essbase.sec YES but same error
- netstat -an to check for 1423. Port 1423 is not listening, although ALL TCP Ports have been enabled. So YES but same error.
- Read Knowledgebase article # 954322.1 - the suggested things in there don't seem to apply to my case, unless I am missing something.
At this point does anybody have any suggestions ?

Answer 1

An update: Just for kicks, I tried restarting Essbase using Start->Programs-EPMSystem->Essbase->EssbaseServer->Essbase.bat and apparently now Essbase is started.
EAS, Studio and Planning however are down.
Excerpt from the HyS9eas-sysout.log:
[ERROR] RegistryUtils - SQL Exception when trying to create a new connection [Hyperion][SQLServer JDBC Driver]Error establishing socket to host and port: machinex:1433. Reason: Connection refused: connect
* CRITICAL ERROR: Common Security Services initialization failed. Please *
* make sure that a valid entry is provided for SECURITY_CONFIGURATION in *
* OlapAdmin.properties. This is required if Shared Services is enabled. *
* Please restart the server after the changes. *
Stopping DAO factory!
HBR Configuration has not been initialized. Make sure you have logged in sucessfully and there are no exceptions in the HBR log file.
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
.... bunch of java code.
This is really strange. There is NOTHING that I changed, started or stopped which could have caused Essbase to start magically all of a sudden.
Any insights into the cause of all this ?