1. David Lacey
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. Tuesday, 2 October 2018 18:10 PM UTC

Hi,

I have PB 10.5 and PB classic 12.5 and both have just started to fail to load on Windows 10.

Message is "Startup Initialization Failed - Cannot continue"

I can't see an Initpath in the registry for 10.5 if that's anything of a clue.

Help appreciated.

Thanks

 

Davy

 

David Lacey Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Wednesday, 3 October 2018 09:19 AM UTC
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. # 1

Still investigating this, but on consulting with colleagues, it seems a common problem in this particular environment. Using a batch file stored in my user folder to run PB10.5 and that's my workaround at present. Will dig further when I get some time.  Software should not suddenly stop working:-)

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  1. Kevin Ridley
  2. Wednesday, 3 October 2018 11:34 AM UTC
Great argument to migrate to PB2017 so you can get support! Glad to hear you at least have a workaround.
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  1. David Lacey
  2. Wednesday, 3 October 2018 11:57 AM UTC
Thanks Kevin. We have PB 10.5, 12.5 and 2017 in this shop. Hopefully at some point, everything will move to the more recent vesrions of PB.
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David Lacey Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Tuesday, 2 October 2018 20:25 PM UTC
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. # 2

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for this. I do have a memory of reading something like what you referred to, but alas I am on not using a touchscreen. t

There is something not quite making sense to me. If I navigate to a .pbw and attempt to open PB as a suggested app it fails, but then when I ignore the suggestion and navigate to the PB105 exe, PB loads up ok.  However, if I navigate directly to the PB105 exe in File Manager and attempt to run it again gives me the "Failed to Initialise" message 

 

Seems that there is something odd about finind the IDE dlls as Chris suggested. Not sure what though.

 

Davy

 

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Kevin Ridley Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Tuesday, 2 October 2018 19:44 PM UTC
  2. PowerBuilder
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I forget the exact error message so this might be way off, but are you using a touchscreen device?  There was an issue starting PB (not sure if it went all the way back to 10.5 but maybe) when using a touchscreen.  I'd have to search for the solution but you basically had to turn off one of the touchpad services and then it opened fine.  Again I could be way off but I vaguely remember something like that.

 

Kevin

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Chris Pollach @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Tuesday, 2 October 2018 18:40 PM UTC
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. # 4

Hi Davy;

   Before that ... are the PB IDE's run-time  DLL load locations still in the O/S's "System Path"?

Regards ... Chris

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  1. David Lacey
  2. Tuesday, 2 October 2018 19:26 PM UTC
Hi Chris,



Many thanks for the reply. I think you are pointing me in the right direction. I was connected to my corporate VPN, though all my PB installations are local. Apologies - I should have had that info in my original post, but I did manage to open PB 10.5 once. As far as I recall, the order of events was:



1. Connected to corporate VPN

2. Ran PB 10.5 OK

3. Closed PB 10.5

4. Closed Connection to VPN

5. Shutdown PC

6. Booted up PC

7. Opened connection to VPN

8 PB 10.5 Failed to Load

9. Tried PB 12.5 and that failed to load too.



I will have a look to see what the path looks like and whether the dll path is included..

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  1. David Lacey
  2. Tuesday, 2 October 2018 19:45 PM UTC
PB IDE's run-time DLL load locations are in c:program files (x86)\sybase\shared\powerbuilder and that folder is included in the os path
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  1. David Lacey
  2. Tuesday, 2 October 2018 19:57 PM UTC
Well that's odd. I navigated to one of the tutorial workspaces and managed to run PB using the "Open With". Still getting the error that I had initially, but will investigate further. Wondering if source control ( Perforce ) is complaining. Will report back. Thanks for help
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