After installing Rational Synergy on Windows the startup fails with error: Failed on initializing Disk Space and Shared Memory

Following a Rational Synergy install, the Informix IDS service does not start and the Informix Server Creation process will fail.

The Informix Server creation process shows the following messages:

Initializing Disk Space and Shared Memory, please wait .................................
ERROR: Failed on initializing Disk Space and Shared Memory.
Clean up database server's files....

The Windows Event Viewer may show entries such as;

error:1069: The service did not start due to a logon failure

If you try subsequently to create a database server using the ccmsrv create command, this will fail with similar error messages.

During the creation of the Rational Synergy database server, the install process tries to start the Informix IDS service to create and install the schema and master database. If Informix IDS does not come online the process will abort and a cleanup phase is initiated. The database server is not created.

It is necessary for the database server create process that the installer is able to start the Informix IDS service.

The Infoirmix IDS Service is configured to run as the informix user. The message; error:1069 The service did not start due to a logon failure usually indicates a logon failure for the informix account.. This most probably is due to the fact that the user does not have the required Log on as a Service right, but it might also be caused by anti-virus software restrictions.

Another possible cause of this problem is that the TEMP and/or TMP directory is not writable by the current user.

Windows Active Directory Domain

The Informix IDS server creation process in the Rational Synergy install.log shows the following messages:

Initializing Disk Space and Shared Memory, please wait .................................
ERROR: Failed on initializing Disk Space and Shared Memory.
Clean up database server's files....

The Windows Event Viewer may show entries such as:

error:1069: The service did not start due to a logon failure Check that the currently logged on user can create files in [ %TEMP% and in %TMP% by running the commands:

copy nul %TEMP%\x

copy nul %TMP%\x

If either fails, then the current user does not have the right to create files in the temporary directories.

Apply one or more of the following solutions below to resolve the issue:

• Ensure when using Windows commands gpedit.msc or secpol.msc /s or in your Local Policies > User Rights Assignments that the user informix has the following rights:
  
  • Act as part of the operating system
  • Adjust memory quotas for a process
  • Debug programs
  • Log on as a service
  • Log on locally
  • Manage auditing and security log
  • Replace a process level token
  
  
  Note: Even if you set these User Rights policies locally, you may still need to ensure the client has not inherited a conflicting or opposite policy from the domain Group Policy. In Windows, where there is a policy conflict, the lower privilege will apply. You can check the effective policy by going to Start > Run and typing gpedit.msc on the client, and then browsing to the policy.

• Add the oninit and onscpah processes to the exceptions list in your Anti Virus configuration
  
  
• Set your TEMP and TMP environments to a fully writable directory path.