137. Not able to log in to 2 Tier Teamcenter (TcServer cannot be started)

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137. Not able to log in to 2 Tier Teamcenter (TCServer cannot be started)
Symptom
While loggin in to Teamcenter, following error is shown:
com.teamcenetr.soa.client.SoaRuntimeException:Could not connect to
% h' _' a1 a5 p! ]$ w3 p; _- P"iipo:localhost:1573/TcServer1" via IIOP
TAO Screen:
Checking for currently running TAO ImR services...
No running TAO ImR services found...
  \2 C% I2 B0 Q: {( o1 file(s) copied.
Starting ImplRepo service...
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ImR Activator: Starting server <TcServer1>...
command line : <C:\Program
Files\Siemens\Teamcenter10\TC_Root\iiopserver
2 c1 `4 L5 w8 t& w) L# Ps\start_TcServer1.bat>
7 a) m0 c7 V) @! ~directory : <C:\Program Files\Siemens\Teamcenter10\TC_Root\iiopservers>
' G* @# v) q, m. FImR Activator: Cannot start server <TcServer1> using <C:\Program
" `; S  B' o: M. @6 Z4 l4 H3 u' v/ cFiles\Siemens\T
) i) C( ^' N9 w$ \' eeamcenter10\TC_Root\iiopservers\start_TcServer1.bat>
ImR: Activator cannot start <TcServer1>.
# [, t' P- ~  Z- l* b$ k( ], pImR: <TcServer1> not running. alive=false.
ImR: Cannot Activate <TcServer1>.
Cannot activate server <TcServer1>, reason: <Cannot start server.>
. R! r* ~1 ]- k8 ]Solution
7 c  y& |! p4 mTAO would report cannot start tcserver.
TC_ROOT and TC_DATA had space in the directory name.
; K- v8 ]+ n9 y, eportal.bat would not call start_TcServer1.bat via the tcserver.xml
* K2 U7 {7 `# z! X* ~Edited the tcserver.xml and noted the TC_ROOT with short path name (DOS 8.3 syntax)
- b3 B7 \( Q8 u- U$ i8 |replacing the folder name with space.
  w) G1 a; t0 r4 O! W. X/ eExample:
C:\PROGRA~1\TC_ROOT & C:\PROGRA~1\TC_DATA
5 g: Y2 a, |8 R/ O* J# q: g$ CLauch portal.bat, now tcsever is started and able to login.
+ |, M3 Y* z$ ]It is highly recommend that TC full installation directory has no space, including NX and
/ a. [/ |5 b2 r( @" s, E; Dany other related softwares.
1 `0 W/ x7 h8 R9 B' NFor example
  X. R8 [' R' Q( ZTC_ROOT = c:\apps\X64\TC\TC11
9 K. f* s- {& |  O. JTC_DATA = c:\apps\x64\TC\tcdata
X64 means 64bit TC software, while for 32 bit, please use X86