NiPBind: service ’sap????’ in use

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Symptom
An SAP R/3 system component cannot start successfully. This may be either the dispatcher or the gateway or message server.
The following error messages are in the development traces (dev_??):
ERROR service ’sapgw03′ in use
RELEASE 31I
COMPONENT NI (network interface)
VERSION 28
RC [...]