Error on startup

[OpenIT Solutions]

Hi,

I have a user that gets the error message 'failed to create empty document' when ever they start Sparx. It then closes down.

Anyone come across this error ? Any suggestions on how to solve ?

Regards,


Jon.

[qwerty]

No idea. Can they open an EAP via dbl-click?

q.

[g.makulik]

Sounds like the EA DB schema is missing?! What's your customers setup? Do they use a RDBMS repository or local.eap files?

Just my 0.02$
Günther

[Takeshi K]

If you use Windows XP (or earlier OS), restarting OS may solve the issue. The message is shown when OS system resource is not enough.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

If you use Windows XP (or earlier OS), restarting OS may solve the issue. The message is shown when OS system resource is not enough.

Yes,  It is predominantly an OS problem with XP.  If you have too many windows open, XP will return this with EA.

I used to get it most when trying to open multiple copies of EA simultaneously.

EA 9+ helps the problem by reducing the load EA puts on the OS, but ultimately, it's outside EA's control on XP.

If you want to avoid restarting, close other tasks.

HTH,
Paolo

[Geert Bellekens]

Specifically, check for opened GDI objects on your task manager.
I think there's a global limit of about 10.000 of those.
If you have a lot of GDI intense programs running (think Outlook, IE, EA) then you run out of them.

Geert