IIS 5.0 Stopped serving ASP pages but still serves HTML

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From: Gyorgy Bozoki (Bozoki_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/04/04


Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 21:41:02 -0700

Hi all,

I'm very desperate about this as cannot get IIS back to working. I'm no IIS
expert either.

I run IIS 5.0 on XP Pro SP1, have the default website with a few ASP pages,
no database. This website used to work fine but one day about two months ago
(or so), it stopped serving ASP pages without any signs of problems. HTML
pages are still returned fine. When I try to get an AS page, I get the
following error message (friendly HTTP errors off):

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Server Application Error
The server has encountered an error while loading an application during the
processing of your request. Please refer to the event log for more detail
information. Please contact the server administrator for assistance.
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I checked the event log, it's full of errors from COM+:

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Source: COM+
Category (98)
Event ID: 4822
Type: Error
Description:
A condition has occurred that indicates this COM+ application is in an
unstable state or is not functioning correctly. Assertion Failure:
SUCCEEDED(hr)

Server Application ID: {02D4B3F1-FD88-11D1-960D-00805FC79235}
Server Application Instance ID:
{79783AB8-C9D8-4D46-A8D2-CF09AE8D82F8}
Server Application Name: System Application
The serious nature of this error has caused the process to terminate.
Error Code = 0x8000ffff : Catastrophic failure
COM+ Services Internals Information:
File: d:\nt_qxp\com\com1x\src\comsvcs\tracker\trksvr\trksvrimpl.cpp, Line:
3000
Comsvcs.dll file version: ENU 2001.12.4414.53 shp

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

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and this:

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Source: COM+
Category : (117)
Event ID: 778
Type: Information
Description:
Application image dump failed.
Server Application ID: {3D14228D-FBE1-11D0-995D-00C04FD919C1}
Server Application Instance ID:
{43DAE95F-6367-4E21-9A3A-1DD25122364E}
Server Application Name: IIS Out-Of-Process Pooled Applications
Error Code = 0x80004005 : Unspecified error
COM+ Services Internals Information:
File: d:\nt_qxp\com\com1x\src\shared\util\svcerr.cpp, Line: 1259
Comsvcs.dll file version: ENU 2001.12.4414.53 shp

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
----------------

When I try to manually start the COM+ System Application service, it starts
up then dies instantly (it's set to Automatic startup).

Does anyone have a clue as to why this happened?

Thanks,
Gyorgy Bozoki



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