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Win32 access denied errors while installing Planning Analytics for Excel on non-system drive

Troubleshooting


Problem

Win32 Access Denied errors when Planning Analytics Workspace is installed on non-system drive or when attempting to start one of the containers.

Symptom

Here are some examples of the errors:
1-Something went wrong at step 'Installing/Updating IBM Planning Analytics Docker images' re-exec error: exit status 1: output: hcsshim::ImportLayer - failed failed in Win32: Access is denied. (0x5).
2-failed failed in win32. The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process (0x20).
3-Something went wrong at step 'Installing/Updating IBM Planning Analytics Docker images' re-exec error: exit status 1: output: Failed to safefile.OpenRelative failed in Win32: open \\?E:\dockerdata\xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\Files: Access Denied. (0x1f).

Cause

These errors usually occur due to having Windows audit settings that prevent docker from running any container.

Resolving The Problem

This issue can be resolved by one of the following approaches:

 Run the following command as administrator then restart the server and try the installation/upgrade again.
- auditpol /clear

OR

 1- Open Windows Administrative tools > Local Security policy > Security Settings > Advanced Audit Policy Configuration> System Audit policies > Object Access
2- Select Audit removable storage > double-click > check Configure the following audit events > check success and check failure > Apply and Ok.
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3- Redo the same steps from the previous steps and clear all the checked boxes.
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4-restart the server.

Document Location

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Document Information

Modified date:
26 May 2022

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ibm16587991