Turn off Data Execution Prevention (DEP).
Right Click “Computer”>Properties>Advanced System Settings>Advanced Tab>“Settings” button under “Performance”>Data Execution Prevention Tab
Set it to “Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs and services only”.
2012-04-03 14:56:27.070 FATAL [m.cognos.pogo.reportservice.ProcessManager] Thread-48: External Report Server process cgsLauncher cannot be started java.io.IOException: Process cgsLauncher failed to start properly.
at com.cognos.pogo.reportservice.ReportServerProcess.getProcessOutput(ReportServerProcess.java:154)
at com.cognos.pogo.reportservice.ReportServerProcess.start(ReportServerProcess.java:117)
at com.cognos.pogo.reportservice.ProcessFacade.createServerProcess(ProcessFacade.java:219)
at com.cognos.pogo.reportservice.ProcessFacade.<init>(ProcessFacade.java:120)
at com.cognos.pogo.reportservice.RSComponentFactory.newProcessFacade(RSComponentFactory.java:67)
at com.cognos.pogo.reportservice.ProcessManager.createProcessFacade(ProcessManager.java:514)
at com.cognos.pogo.reportservice.ProcessManager.startProcess(ProcessManager.java:490)
at com.cognos.pogo.reportservice.ProcessManager.startInitialProcesses(ProcessManager.java:364)
at com.cognos.pogo.reportservice.ProcessManager.start(ProcessManager.java:295)
at com.ibm.cgsBus.service.GraphicsServiceConnectionFactory.startProcessManager(Unknown Source)
at com.ibm.cgsBus.service.GraphicsServiceConnectionFactory.start(Unknown Source)
at com.ibm.cgsBus.service.GraphicsServiceHandler.start(Unknown Source)
at com.cognos.pogo.services.DefaultHandlerService.start(DefaultHandlerService.java:94)
at com.cognos.pogo.services.DispatcherServices.start(DispatcherServices.java:189)
at com.cognos.pogo.services.DispatcherServices.continueStartup(DispatcherServices.java:417)
at com.cognos.pogo.services.DispatcherServices.configure(DispatcherServices.java:137)
at com.cognos.pogo.contentmanager.coordinator.RefreshController.composeAndConfigureServices(RefreshController.java:120)
at com.cognos.pogo.contentmanager.coordinator.RefreshController.run(RefreshController.java:80)
at com.cognos.pogo.contentmanager.coordinator.BootstrapConfigurePublish.startConfiguration(BootstrapConfigurePublish.java:154)
at com.cognos.pogo.contentmanager.coordinator.BootstrapConfigurePublish.checkConfiguration(BootstrapConfigurePublish.java:127)
at com.cognos.pogo.contentmanager.coordinator.BootstrapConfigurePublish$ConfigurationCheckTask.safeRun(BootstrapConfigurePublish.java:120)
at com.cognos.pogo.util.threads.SafeTimerTask.run(SafeTimerTask.java:32)
at java.util.Timer$TimerImpl.run(Timer.java:293)
I’ve tried to turn off Data Execution Prevention (DEP) but it doesn’t work.
while java version you are using . if you are using the sun java it may throw this type of error, but the cognos will works fine. but if you use IBM java the error will not be there. try to use IBM java 6 update 7