Archives: 'Field-tested'

SCHAPPY — 21. Dezember 2008, 14:58

Blackberry Sync Issues of 3rd party Mail Accounts

Issue: Once you’ve synchronized successfully with your 3rd party IMAP/POP3/OWA-Account and you descide to remove the account from the BES, you may no longer receive new mails for this mail account, after you’ve added it to your BES again. The mail account setup finished successfully, and the first activation confirmation mail received on you mobile […]

SCHAPPY — 10. Dezember 2008, 16:17

[Solved] Stuck on sapinst.exe „Start Instance“

Problem: Solution Manager 4.0 SR4 installation succeeded, but during setup step „start instance“ the instance is stopped after 10 mins with the following error: „ABAP processes of instance <SID>/DVEBMGS00 [ABAP: UNKNOWN] did not start after 10:00 minutes. Giving up.“ Solution: Check /usr/sap/<SID>/DVEBMGS00/work/dev_disp for the following entry *** DP_FATAL_ERROR => DpMsAttach: local hostname ‚hostname‘ is resolved […]

SCHAPPY — 7. Dezember 2008, 12:25

MAXDB – How to reinstall a corrupted version

Just got a corrupted version of MAXDB and tried to reinstall the entire database by running SDBSETUP. However, the installer runs for hours without any changes. Sometimes errors about already installed versions and missing users/files occured. Thus I decided to get rid of all installed components by hand. On SAP systems (in my case running […]

SCHAPPY — 29. November 2008, 17:24

RA-Micro and slow network performance

RA-Micro is a SQL- and file-based data administration solution for jurists. One central server instance is accessed via UNC path in a MS Windows environment using CIFS. Problem: Opening client documents becomes very slow (at least 30s or more) Solution: Various of things should be checked on the machine acting as RA-Micro server instance to […]

SCHAPPY — 26. November 2008, 14:06

Where to find SAPLocales?

If you’re looking for saplocales check note 171356 on the Service Market Place.

SCHAPPY — 12. November 2008, 19:39

[solved] sapinst on AIX5.3 does not listen on SAPINST_DIALOG_PORT

Again, solution first — issue is described below 😉 Solution: You should use the latest version of java 1.4.2 (in my case 1.4.2_12). Increase data segment size limit to unlimited by ulimit -d unlimited Issue: starting ./sapinst works perfect, no errors logged, waiting for remote login on ports 21200 and 21212. However netstat -a shows […]

SCHAPPY — , 11:23

[solved] sapinst on AIX5.3 dumps: child … existed with signal 1

Let’s start with the solution, the issue is described below 😉 Solution: Finally I figured out the reason was the Java installation. The issue occurs with Java1.4.2_10. Upgraded to Java1.4.2_12 (64 Bit) and switched $PATH variable. Now system copy works fine 😉 Issue: Trying to do a system copy of a SAP ERP 2005 running […]

SCHAPPY — 22. Oktober 2008, 16:10

iPhone: Unread SMS messages bug

After some firmware migrations I ended on 2.1 and recognized that my SMS icon shows at least 218 unread SMS messages. I wasn’t able to mark the messages as read, even if I view all of them. I figuerd out, that the problem persists because of an improper update of the sms.db. The database contains […]

SCHAPPY — 24. September 2008, 15:38

Red Hat + VMWare Converter + ESX Server

I got to migrate an existing Red Hat VM to an ESX Server. Keep in mind, VMWare’s converter is still beta. Some words about the migration. Once you start the migration wizard, ensure the following „Source Data“ options: „Select volumes and resize to save or add space“. You must deselect the „Create separate disk for […]

SCHAPPY — 3. September 2008, 9:26

Chrome is here

Google’s new Internet Browser „Chrome“ is available. And it is fast — really fast. Tabbed browsing works on process-basis, i.e. each tab runs as an isolated process consuming approximately 20-30 MB of main memory. This may be an evidence for a stable system architecture. Settings are imported seamlessly from existing Firefox profiles. Let’s have some […]