Yet another WebSphere Portal startup issue/resolution
Posted by Vivek Agarwal on June 30, 2008
A short and sweet entry to document the quick and easy resolution for the situation where you encounter the following error starting up the WebSphere Portal service on Windows -
The IBM WebSphere Application Server V6 – WebspherePortal service terminated with service-specific error 134221464 (0×8000E98).
This is a problem where the service fails to start up, and the failure occurs real quickly. Essentially, the WebSphere Portal java process is not even kicked off and you do not find any logging in profiles\${profile_name}\logs\WebSphere_Portal\startServer.log for the WebSphere Portal server. I have encountered this a few times, and usually for me, the issue has been related to an ungraceful shutdown of WebSphere Portal. I have restarted my Portal VMWare VM unexpectedly and the WebSphere_Portal.pid file is left in the profiles\${profile_name}\logs\WebSphere_Portal. The resolution for this issue is to simply delete the pid file and to restart the service.
Ryan McBride said
Racked my brain for hours on this. Wish I would have found this link sooner. This fixed my problem without a hitch.
Thank you.
Jerry Johansson said
It solved our problem. I just deleted that bloody file and it’s up and running again…
Thank you.