"Failed to start Core Services: Failed to launch rpcss" when starting Optim

Problem(Abstract)

On unix platforms the following error is seen

"Failed to start Core Services: Failed to launch rpcss."

when starting Optim with the rtserver command.

Symptom

The full output when running rtserver is:

optim@myserver:> ./rtserver start

Seems that there are no applications running.
No display defined - don't clean xprops
Seems that there are no applications running.
No display defined - don't clean xprops
Core Services are not running.
Failed to start Core Services: Failed to launch rpcss.

The MainWin log file may show the following error:

RPCSS ServiceMain failed with 1702

Cause

This problem is typically caused by a network conflict.

Resolving the problem

The following have resolved this issue:

• Run "rtserver verify"
• Ensure that the rtservername entry in pstserv.cfg matches that in /etc/hosts
• Ensure that the rtservername only appears once in /etc/hosts
• Ensure that the IP address associated with the server only appears once in /etc/hosts

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