Summary

This article explains the cause and resolution of error: EXITING DUE TO SIGNAL 32 Exit Reason 9.

Symptoms

The vendor daemon mvsn does not start and the vendor daemon log shows the following error:

13:45:36 (mvsn) EXITING DUE TO SIGNAL 32 Exit reason 9

Cause

This error is known to occur when:

1. Another copy of the license server manager (lmgrd or lmadmin) is running.
2. Another copy of the mvsn vendor daemon is running.

Resolution

Using Windows Task Manager, check if another instance of the license server manager or vendor daemon is running. If another instance is running, then end that process and try starting the vendor daemon.