RE: DHCP problem - Error 1811 - Event ID 455

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Andy D. Did you ever get a solution to this problem? I am seeing the same
thing on one of my servers as well.

"Andy D" wrote:

> Hi need a bit of help.
> Am getting this error when trying to restart DHCP.
> Source is ESENT; Event ID 455
> "tcpsvcs (5716) Error -1811 occurred while opening logfile
> C:\WINDOWS\System32\dhcp\j5002A54.log."
> This log file does not exist.
> I think I know what has caused the problem, on 07/12/04 I tried to restore
> Exchange Server as I was trying to recover some emails, I had a problem with
> this and couldnt restart the Stores.
> After some desparate attempts I decided to restore completely from the
> backup dated 06/12/04. Still couldnt resolve the issue and had posted a
> question on this group. Thanks to Chad I eventually got it working on
> 10/12/04. In the meantime backup had been failing.
> Now when I look at C:\WINDOWS\System32\dhcp\
> there is a folder called backup 9created 06/12/04) which contains a file
> called DhcpCfg and a folder called new.
> Within new there are 5 files,
> dhcp.mdb - 06/12/04
> dhcp.pat - 06/12/04
> j5002A32.log - 06/12/04
> j5002A52.log - 07/12/04
> j5002A52.log - 07/12/04
> In the standard DHCP directory there are the following files,
> dhcp.mdb - 19/11/04
> dhcp.pat - 06/12/04
> DhcpSrvLog-Fri.log - 17/12/04
> DhcpSrvLog-Mon.log - 06/12/04
> DhcpSrvLog-Sat.log - 05/12/04
> DhcpSrvLog-Sun.log - 06/12/04
> DhcpSrvLog-Thu.log - 03/12/04
> DhcpSrvLog-Tue.log - 07/12/04
> DhcpSrvLog-Wed.log - 02/12/04
> j50.chk - 07/12/04
> j50.log - 17/12/04
> j5002A32.log - 06/12/04
> res1.log - 08/11/03
> res2.log - 08/11/03
> I tried copying the files, j5002A52.log - 07/12/04
> j5002A52.log - 07/12/04 from the new folder to the dhcp root folder and also
> copied the j5002A52.log - 07/12/04 to j5002A54.log
> Tried restarting the DHCP service and got a warning message
> Source is ESENT; Event ID 455
> "cpsvcs (5824) There is a gap log in sequence numbers, last used log file
> has generation 10803. Logfiles j5002A33 to j5002A54 have been deleted so that
> recovery can complete."
> Plus the original "tcpsvcs (5716) Error -1811 occurred while opening logfile
> C:\WINDOWS\System32\dhcp\j5002A54.log."
> Any ideas to how to overcome this please.
>
> Many Thanks
.

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