Server Application Unavailable - aspnet_wp.exe could not be started. HRESULT for the failure: 800040

[Philipp Schumann]

Hi,

when trying to access any aspx page on my localhost IIS 6 (Win XP Pro), I
always get a big read "Server Application Unavailable", with an
Administrator Note pointing to a system event log entry, the entry reading
"aspnet_wp.exe could not be started. HRESULT for the failure: 80004005". I
have already "Re-Install/Repair"-ed VS.NET 2002, and also applied a
fixup.cmd afterwards, which I downloaded last year when there was a security
bug in ASP.NET on XP Pro.

Any ideas?

Kind regards,
Philipp Schumann

 

[Martin Dechev]

Hi, Philipp Schumann,

Do you fall in the following case:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=323292

Hope this helps
Martin

 

[Philipp Schumann]

Hi Martin,
not quite - as I figured out myself now, my case was this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wss/wss/_ex
ch2k_running_asp_net_on_a_dc.asp

But thanks!!
Phil
mokka'logic Interactive