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FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes

Appendix E


Error Message Format

FLEXnet Licensing error messages presented by applications have the following components:

Error messages were improved in v6. FLEXnet Licensing Error Explanation, and supporting information are only available in applications using v6.0+.

These error messages may occur in two formats available with FLEXnet Licensing or may appear in a format customized by the application.

Format 1 (short):

FLEXlm error text (-lm_errno, minor_num[:sys_errno]) [sys_error_text]

The system error information may be missing.

Example:

Can't connect to license server system (-15,12:61) Connection refused

Format 2 (long-version 6.0+):

FLEXlm error text
 FLEXlm error explanation
[Optional Supporting information]
FLEXlm error: -lm_errno, minor_num. [System Error: sys_errno] ["system_error_text"]

Example:

Cannot connect to license server system
 The server (lmgrd) has not been started yet, or
 the wrong port@host or license file is being used, or the
 port or hostname in the license file has been changed.
Feature: f1
Server name: localhost
License path: @localhost:license.dat:./*.lic
FLEXlm error: -15,12. System Error: 61 "Connection refused"

Error Code Descriptions

The following table lists the most common errors produced by FLEXenabled products.

Table E-1: FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes  
Error Code
Description
-1
Cannot find license file.
-2
Invalid license file syntax.
-3
No license server system for this feature.
-4
Licensed number of users already reached.
-5
No such feature exists.
-6
No TCP/IP port number in license file and FLEXnet Licensing service does not exist. (pre-v6 only)
-7
No socket connection to license server manager service.
-8
Invalid (inconsistent) license key or signature.
The license key/signature and data for the feature do not match. This usually happens when a license file has been altered.
-9
Invalid host.
The hostid of this system does not match the hostid specified in the license file.
-10
Feature has expired.
-11
Invalid date format in license file.
-12
Invalid returned data from license server system.
-13
No SERVER lines in license file.
-14
Cannot find SERVER host name in network database.
The lookup for the host name on the SERVER line in the license file failed. This often happens when NIS or DNS or the hosts file is incorrect. Workaround: Use IP address (e.g., 123.456.789.123) instead of host name.
-15
Cannot connect to license server system.
The server (lmgrd) has not been started yet, or the wrong port@host or license file is being used, or the TCP/IP port or host name in the license file has been changed.
-16
Cannot read data from license server system.
-17
Cannot write data to license server system.
-18
License server system does not support this feature.
-19
Error in select system call.
-21
License file does not support this version.
-22
Feature checkin failure detected at license server system.
-23
License server system temporarily busy (new server connecting).
-24
Users are queued for this feature.
-25
License server system does not support this version of this feature.
-26
Request for more licenses than this feature supports.
-29
Cannot find ethernet device.
-30
Cannot read license file.
-31
Feature start date is in the future.
-32
No such attribute.
-33
Bad encryption handshake with vendor daemon.
-34
Clock difference too large between client and license server system.
-35
In the queue for this feature.
-36
Feature database corrupted in vendor daemon.
-37
Duplicate selection mismatch for this feature. Obsolete with v8.0+ vendor daemon.
-38
User/host on EXCLUDE list for feature.
-39
User/host not on INCLUDE list for feature.
-40
Cannot allocate dynamic memory.
-41
Feature was never checked out.
-42
Invalid parameter.
-47
Clock setting check not available in vendor daemon.
-52
Vendor daemon did not respond within timeout interval.
-53
Checkout request rejected by vendor-defined checkout filter.
-54
No FEATURESET line in license file.
-55
Incorrect FEATURESET line in license file.
-56
Cannot compute FEATURESET data from license file.
-571
socket() call failed.
-59
Message checksum failure.
-60
License server system message checksum failure.
-61
Cannot read license file data from license server system.
-62
Network software (TCP/IP) not available.
-63
You are not a license administrator.
-64
lmremove request before the minimum lmremove interval.
-67
No licenses available to borrow.
-68
License BORROW support not enabled.
-69
FLOAT_OK can't run standalone on license server system.
-71
Invalid TZ environment variable.
-73
Local checkout filter rejected request.
-74
Attempt to read beyond end of license file path.
-751
SYS$SETIMR call failed (VMS).
-76
Internal FLEXnet Licensing error-please report to Macrovision Corporation.
-77
Bad version number must be floating-point number with no letters.
-82
Invalid PACKAGE line in license file.
-83
FLEXnet Licensing version of client newer than server.
-84
USER_BASED license has no specified users - see license server system log.
-85
License server system doesn't support this request.
-87
Checkout exceeds MAX specified in options file.
-88
System clock has been set back.
-89
This platform not authorized by license.
-90
Future license file format or misspelling in license file.
The file was issued for a later version of FLEXnet Licensing than this program understands.
-91
Encryption seeds are non-unique.
-92
Feature removed during lmreread, or wrong SERVER line hostid.
-93
This feature is available in a different license pool.
This is a warning condition. The server has pooled one or more INCREMENT lines into a single pool, and the request was made on an INCREMENT line that has been pooled.
-94
Attempt to generate license with incompatible attributes.
-95
Network connect to THIS_HOST failed.
Change this_host on the SERVER line in the license file to the actual host name.
-96
License server machine is down or not responding.
See the system administrator about starting the server, or make sure that you're referring to the right host (see LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable).
-97
The desired vendor daemon is down.
1) Check the lmgrd log file, or 2) Try lmreread.
-98
This FEATURE line can't be converted to decimal format.
-99
The decimal format license is typed incorrectly.
-100
Cannot remove a linger license.
-101
All licenses are reserved for others.
The system administrator has reserved all the licenses for others. Reservations are made in the options file. The server must be restarted for options file changes to take effect.
-102
A FLEXid borrow error occurred.
-103
Terminal Server remote client not allowed.
-104
Cannot borrow that long.
-106
License server system out of network connections.
The vendor daemon can't handle any more users. See the debug log for further information.
-110
Cannot read dongle: check dongle or driver.
Either the dongle is unattached, or the necessary software driver for this dongle type is not installed.
-112
Missing dongle driver.
In order to read the FLEXid hostid, the correct driver must be installed. These drivers are available from your software vendor.
-114
SIGN= keyword required, but missing from license certificate.
You need to obtain a SIGN= version of this license from your vendor.
-115
Error in Public Key package.
-116
TRL not supported for this platform.
-117
BORROW failed.
-118
BORROW period expired.
-119
lmdown and lmreread must be run on license server machine.
-120
Cannot lmdown the server when licenses are borrowed.
-121
FLOAT_OK requires exactly one FLEXid hostid.
-122
Unable to delete local borrow info.
-123
Returning a borrowed license early is not supported.
Contact the vendor for further details.
-124
Error returning borrowed license.
-125
A PACKAGE component must be specified.
-126
Composite hostid not initialized.
-127
A item needed for the composite hostid is missing or invalid.
-128
Error, borrowed license doesn't match any known server license.
-135
Error enabling the event log.
-136
Event logging is disabled.
-137
Error writing to the event log.
-139
Communications timeout.
-140
Bad message command.
-141
Error writing to socket. Peer has closed socket.
-142
Error, cannot generate version specific license tied to a single hostid, which is composite.
-143
Version-specific signatures are not supported for uncounted licenses.
-144
License template contains redundant signature specifiers.
-145
Bad V71_LK signature.
-146
Bad V71_SIGN signature.
-147
Bad V80_LK signature.
-148
Bad V80_SIGN signature.
-149
Bad V81_LK signature.
-150
Bad V81_SIGN signature.
-151
Bad V81_SIGN2 signature.
-152
Bad V84_LK signature.
-153
Bad V84_SIGN signature.
-154
Bad V84_SIGN2 signature.
-155
License key required but missing from the license certificate. The application requires a license key in the license certificate. You need to obtain a license key version of this certificate from your vendor.
-156
Invalid signature specified with the AUTH= keyword.
-500
Invalid server port number.
-501
Invalid value in license where an integer was expected.
-502
Invalid value supplied for count.
-503
Invalid hostid supplied in license.
-504
Invalid hostid type supplied.
-505
Bad feature line syntax.
-506
Internal FLEXnet Licensing error.
-507
Bad date format in license file.
-508
Bad SERVER line.
-509
Bad license string.
-510
Server's feature doesn't authenticate on client side.
-511
No license checked out.
-512
License already checked out.
-513
Error list returned.
-514
No certicom module available.
-515
Wrong or incomplete certicom module.
-516
SIGN or SIGN2 required in license certificate.
-517
Feature object has no license sources.
-518
An Identical license is already checked out on this license source.
-519
This license has an asynchronously-queued checkout pending.
-521
Library for native hostid couldn't be loaded.
-522
Already connected to another vendor daemon.
-523
No such user, host, or display.
-524
Shutdown of license server system failed.
-525
Shutdown failed - already connected to license server system.
-526
Invalid license source string.
-527
Log file switch error.
1Indicates errors due to an operating system failure.


 

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