DPR-CMI-4006 Unable to determine the active Content Manager. Will retry period..

[cognosguru]

Hello dear Cognoise members.  I am having issues configuring 10.2.1 environment.  It is a single server install for my test box that is vanilla.  SQL Server 2012, Windows Server 2008, nothing out of the ordinary and similar to all the other installs I have done for previous versions only this one bugs out when I try to start Cognos Configuration.  The error is always

DPR-CMI-4006 Unable to determine the active Content Manager. Will retry periodically.

I have searched far and wide for answers and cannot come up with anything that works (have tried many suggestions).  Thus I turn to you and your expertise.  Please help.

Thanks.

[Grim]

Are you using an existing Content Store from another install or did you configure a new DB for this install?
Does the DB test successfully when you right click and test in Cog Config?
Are you using "localhost" for any of the URIs in Cog Config?

Found this:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cbi/v10r1m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.swg.im.cognos.inst_cr_winux.10.1.0.doc%2Finst_cr_winux_id31266CQdefect236559.html

Also...since it's Winblows. Make sure to turn off DEP and try again.