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Problem Note 18202: 'Cannot start remote process' or 'spawner prompt not found' errors might occur when connecting to a UNIX spawner program (sastcpd)
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When connecting to the UNIX spawner program (sastcpd) via the SAS/CONNECT® SIGNON or the SAS/IntrNet® Load Manager, the following errors might occur:
From the SAS/CONNECT SIGNON:
'ERROR: Cannot start remote process.'
From the SAS/IntrNet Load Manager:
'Spawner prompt not found'
This problem might occur intermittently. You might be able to SIGNON or connect via the Load Manager one time, but the next time you might get the above error messages.
You might also receive the above error messages after a subsequent number of SAS/CONNECT SIGNON/SIGNOFF successes.
Select the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/CONNECT | Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 | ||
| Linux on Itanium | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 | ||
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 | ||