Hi Manoj,
How exactly are you trying to start the server?
Typically this is done using "startserver -f RUN_<servername>" in $SYBASE/ASE-*/install
i.e. if your ASE server in named BOB, there is a file in the install directory named RUN_BOB.
The file contains a call to the dataserver binary passing parameters including -d for the master
device and -S for the server name ("BOB")
It is also possible to start the server by executing dataserver (with the appropriate parameters) directly from the command line or OS boot-time directories. (note that using startserver causes ASE to run under "nohup", so that it doesn't come down if the terminal window it was started under is closed).
Your errorlog entry, though, looks like the server is trying to start with the name of a RUN_SERVER file as the server name instead of just the server name. i.e. it is as if you had executed
dataserver -d my_master_device -S RUN_<SID> ...
instead of
dataserver -d my_master_device -S <SID>
So please look closely at what you are doing when starting the server.
-bret