I can't duplicate the error since I replaced Windows 2K with NT. We were getting a similar problem in that SAS 8.2 would simply disappear (totally bomb out) whenever we got an email in Outlook. The problem went away when we changed operating systems.

Art <evan.cooch@NOSPAMcornell.edu> wrote in message news:3de12fb1.6226583@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu... > On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:36:34 GMT, evan.cooch@NOSPAMcornell.edu wrote: > > >Recently updated to 8.2 on my Windoze 2K box. All seems to be > >reasonably OK, but about 15% of the time, when trying to start SAS, I > >get the following error message: > > > > > >ERROR: User does not have appropriate authorization level for library > >WORK. FATAL: Unable to initialize the options subsystem. > > > >(SASXKINI): PHASE 3 KERNEL INITIALIZATION FAILED. > >UNABLE TO INITIALIZE THE SAS KERNEL > > > > > >I suspect something strange is going on, depending on what other > >applications I have running at the time (haven't done an exhaustive > >test, but...). > > Just tried a test, and I can reproduce this 'error' every time I've > tried it IF I have my email client (Eudora 5.2) running when I try to > start up SAS. If I turn off Eudora, and then try to run SAS, no > problem. > > Can anyone else duplicate this at their end? > > Thanks! >