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Error: Failed to allocate a SYSV semaphore

Troubleshooting


Problem

You faced the following issue on your environment: "Insufficient system resources - failed to allocate a SYSV semaphore"

Symptom

You may receive:

QE-DEF-0285 The logon failed

QE-DEF-0321 The userID or password is either missing or invalid

RQP-DEF-0068 Unable to connect to ast least one database [...]

UDA-SQL-0031 Unable to access [...]

UDA-SQL-0129 Invalid login information was detected by the underlying database

[unixODBC][Sybase][ODBC Driver][SQL Anywhere]Connection error: Insufficient system resources - failed to allocate a SYSV semaphore

BME-EX-0144 Trace back [...]

[{"Product":{"code":"SSEP7J","label":"Cognos Business Intelligence"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU048","label":"IBM Software"},"Component":"Install and Config","Platform":[{"code":"PF016","label":"Linux"}],"Version":"10.2;10.2.1;10.2.2","Edition":"Edition Independent","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB76","label":"Data Platform"}},{"Product":{"code":"SS6G84","label":"IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU048","label":"IBM Software"},"Component":" ","Platform":[{"code":"","label":""}],"Version":"","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB76","label":"Data Platform"}}]

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Modified date:
08 May 2025

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