Shared Variable refuses to deploy correctly!

[Gregory]

My problem seems like one that has been encountered before, but with no good answers on the NI documents or forums. When trying to run a VI that deploys shared variables, I keep getting an error that the shared variable engine cannot be found. This seems to be almost random, because I was able to deploy shared variables perfectly fine. It might have been when I restarted my computer that this problem started to occur.

I've tried disabling the firewall, that had no effect. LabVIEW 2009 reports the following when I try to run my VI:

"LabVIEW:  (Hex 0x8BBB0005) Unable to locate variable in the Shared Variable Engine.  Deployment of this variable may have failed.

This error or warning occurred while writing the following Shared Variable:
\\.\fake_data\flow_sh
\\.\fake_data\flow_sh"

I'll include all pertinent files so that you can see exactly what I'm doing. The purpose of the fake_data program is just to practice using shared variables, very simple. Thanks for any insight you can offer!

[Gregory · Accepted solution]

my shared variables are working again, I just opened up cmd.exe and typed:

net stop "national instruments variable engine"

followed by

net start "national instruments variable engine"

[altenbach]

Is it possible you meant "net start ..." for the second command? 

[Gregory]

Yep! it's been edited!

[Sam2009]

Hey GregoryJ,

Thanks for your suggestion. I had very similar issue. I fixed it by resting the database and using your methods. I did had to run cmd.exe in administrator mode to execute your commands.

Resetting the database

Refer to Angela L. comments

I did had to alter your commands little but that was simple enough.

net stop "NI variable engine"

followed by

net start "NI variable engine"

Thanks

[Sam2009]

I also found error messages (4) on Windows Event Viewer (Windows Logs/Application). They were continuously accumulating in the Event Viewer until I reset the database and restart the variable engine.

Error 1

Log Name:      Application

Source:        NI Configuration Manager

Description: CmxsNeoStorage::RestoreBackup - Attempting to restore MXS database using a backup.

Error 2

Log Name:      Application

Source:        NI Configuration Manager

Description: CmxsNeoStorage::Open2 - MXS initialization interrupted - An MXS init file found meaning the last MXS initialization may not have completed.

Error 3

Log Name:      Application

Source:        NI Configuration Manager

Description: Opening configuration database.

Error 4

Log Name:      Application

Source:        NI Configuration Manager

Description:  Failed to open configuration database: Error Code = 0x8004032A