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This message essentially means the SAP Management Console (or a related tool) can’t communicate with the sapstartsrv process—the service responsible for starting, stopping, and monitoring SAP instances on Windows or Linux. Without it, you’re locked out of basic control functions. cannot connect to service sapstartsrv
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ERROR: bind() failed (Address already in use) ERROR: Could not register service with WINS Often, the problem is transient. Restarting fixes it: cannot connect to service sapstartsrv