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Licensing Manager init FAILED

  • May 13, 2026
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janet
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I was looking to upgrade FME Flow 2024 to FME Flow 2026 and ended up getting an impassable situation. I was following this process, which I’ve done in previous upgrades (ie. to version 2024):

https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME-Flow/AdminGuide/Upgrade-in-Place-Same-Machine.htm - I am stuck after step #4.

 

Here are my specific steps:

  1. Uninstall FME Flow 2024 from Add or Remove Programs
  2. Run FME Flow 2026.1.1, using Express install
  3. Open http://<host>/fmeserver/ -> “ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED”

From fmeserver.log:

INFORM   main   401970 : FME Flow is not licensed for this machine. For assistance, contact sales@safe.com or your local Safe Software reseller. (-1)

INFORM   main   401972 : Total number of available engines is 0

INFORM   main   401961 : Licensing Manager init FAILED

INFORM   requesthandler   401831 : Accepted new engine connection from /127.0.0.1 on port 7070

INFORM   fme-engine-registration-1   401937 : Accepted new FME Engine connection.

INFORM   fme-engine-registration-1   401950 : Registering FME Engine...

ERROR    fme-engine-registration-1   401979 : Missing FME Flow license, or license disallows FME Engine registration.

ERROR    fme-engine-registration-1   401939 : Failed to register FME Engine.

 

On repeat

 

It’s not possible to check on the licensing from the web console because that won’t start up. Manually adding a newly generated .fmelic file from the Sales team to the licenses folder didn’t help: C:\ProgramData\Safe Software\FMEFlow\licenses\

I uninstalled 2026, reinstalled 2024 and it produced the same error, so now it’s a persistent problem.

I’m attaching the Tomcat logs from the new 2024 install.

Would anyone know why the licensing isn’t starting up? 

 

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