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jerpeng
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services fail to start

I have a xp sp 2 workstation installed on vista sp1 I am running vmware workstation 6.5

I have installed sql 2005 and 2008 and IIS .

I am running smooth untiI reboot.

It seems vmware tools are stopped (red tray Icon) and can not logon to sql server anymore (both)

When I look at my services It seems many services have stopped(or failed to start). When I start them manually they give the following error.

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Services

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Could not start the Automatic Updates service on Local Computer.

Error 1084: This service cannot be started in Safe Mode

In the event log I see the error about Dcom not starting.

with error

DCOM got error "This service cannot be started in Safe Mode " attempting to start the service netman with arguments "" in order to run the server:

{BA126AE5-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E}

When I try to start word wide web publishing service I get

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Services

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Could not start the World Wide Web Publishing service on Local Computer.

Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start.

When I start up the clone I created before it startsup,ok. It seems something breaks down when using this machine.

The services start under the local system account.

Does anybody know this behaviour?

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firestartah
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Hi

Is there a reason you are starting the vm in safe mode? Did you run the installation of vmtools as an admin of the box?

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jerpeng
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No there is no particular reason.

It's not clear to me why it want to start in save mode. I am actually strating XP normally as you always would.

And yes I am the local administrator and only user of the box (I actually logon as administrator.)

Regards,

Jeroen

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firestartah
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Hi

For the dcom error if you do a simple search on the eventid there's quite a few different fixes. Sorry this isn't a definitive answer but your problem seems to be a windows error rather than a VMware error

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firestartah
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also maybe try a simple file check on the machine to see if any erros show up

Start->Run, type in sfc /scannow . Let it scan and see it finds any files missing/corrupted. Also maybe try roll back to a restore point before the errors occured as maybe one of your installations didn't run correctly and is causing the errors

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jerpeng
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Yes I guessed it was windows related (it looks like it anyway. But I never encountered this type of error before.

I have this problem on several virtual machines since I started using VMWare in stead of microsoft Virtual PC (quite recently) So I am thinking the 2 are interrelated. Some how My particular) windows doesn't like the vmware environment or something else is biting.

It just starts to happen all of a sudden.

can (luckily) roll back to a working situation. But I have only 2 and the last one is having the problem after restart.

I can go back even further and I guess this one I can reboot. And find out step by steop what I am doing.

I'll try to run a check ()Later this evening. (since I need to do some work for the customer I am working at the moment to Smiley Happy

Thanks sofar I'll let you know.

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jerpeng
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Dear Firestartah

I have been fidling and even my good version would.nt start up correctly.

In my frustrtation while doing my last start up I decided what the heck I quit. (while windows was starting up)

I had a look at another machine (A clone which was the same but still was working???) .

I couldn't let go an again I wanted to have alook at his problem. The windows came that I did not close properly, yeah right i now) And then I thought Hey, what happens if I pick the option Last good Configuration. And guesss what. Its running smoothly now. I straight a way did the same on a nother wrecked machine and again it's running smoothly now.

One way or another shutting down is not allways going proper on y configuration and is rebooting (more or less) in save mode? No Idea what when and how. but I found how to circomvent the problem.

Thanks for the help anyways.

JeroenG

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firestartah
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Awesome. I'm glad it worked. Yeah using last known good config will roll the machine back to a restore point so obviously one of the installations has caused this error and now that you have rolled back to before this it is working =0)

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