Attempting to upgrade 8.5.1 to 8.5.2 on Linux (RHEL) server. Simple install - not partitioned.
Install completes with no error, but gets two errors when attempting to start Domino: “Error writing to process file pid.nbf” and “An error occurred during license use management initialization. Ensure that you are running Domino with a valid license file.”
Per tech notes and other Google finds, I checked permissions on Domino8.lic, deleted the pid.nbf file, reinstalled, and verified notes.ini. With luck I can avoid the pid.nbf error, but the license error continues and 8.5.2 doesn’t start.
I reverted to 8.5.1 and started it manually (as opposed to the rc_domino script that I normally use). It also generated the license error, but it starts and runs anyway. Perhaps it’s always done that.
I’ve exhausted all the solutions that I’ve seen on the web. Any suggestions?
Potentially The same things you have found, but here is a list that can cause this:
Third party apps can sometimes change [notes] in the first line of the ini to [notes.ini]
The full Error for “Error writing to process file pid.nbf” May have contained info for an additional process. If this is the case, see if you can start notes up without this process running. Or even try removing any addins from the extention_manager or tasks lists in the ini.
You can also get the error if the initial install of the server was on a trial release, but I doubt this is the case.
Thanks. The first two lines of notes.ini are clean - just as they should be. The pid file error message suggests that there may be another process writing to that file, but I’ve not installed any extensions that I know of. In any event, deleting the file seems to avoid that error (I think). Testing is hard because I can’t take the server offline casually. The license issue seems to be the fatal problem in this case. I mention the pid file in case they’re related.
