edb.log corrupted

had a sector go bad on my HD and the edb.log was effected and now i cant boot up the machine normally. It gives me an error saying its rebuilding the active directory and then i get a pop up window telling me

security accounts manager initialization failed. directory services cant start. error status: 0x00002c

i can boot into the AD recovery mode but i'd like to get things working normally. I never scheduled any backups of the edb.log or any of the other files in there

There was a file called edb0001.log. i tried replacing the broken edb.log with it but it didnt help

Is there anything i can do to correct this? Oh and this is on a SBS2003 machine. Couldnt find a 2003 group though

thanks

Ia

P.S. remove the --xx-- garbage from my email address if emailing me, thanks

Mark
Thu Feb 12 07:45:40 CST 2004

looks like a restore from tape. You can try using ntdsutil and cleanup
metadata in AD to see if that helps. You can restore AD and not worry about
files.

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Sincerely,
Mark Mancini, CCA, CCNA, Master CIW&CI, CNE 4&5, MCSE+I 4&2000
www.MCSE2000.com
www.AppLauncher.com



"Ian L" <merk--xx--@imerk.net> wrote in message
news:3D22A914-CA1A-4641-86D8-1EA01874EACA@microsoft.com...
> had a sector go bad on my HD and the edb.log was effected and now i cant
boot up the machine normally. It gives me an error saying its rebuilding the
active directory and then i get a pop up window telling me:
>
> security accounts manager initialization failed. directory services cant
start. error status: 0x00002c1
>
> i can boot into the AD recovery mode but i'd like to get things working
normally. I never scheduled any backups of the edb.log or any of the other
files in there.
>
> There was a file called edb0001.log. i tried replacing the broken edb.log
with it but it didnt help.
>
> Is there anything i can do to correct this? Oh and this is on a SBS2003
machine. Couldnt find a 2003 group though.
>
> thanks,
>
> Ian
>
> P.S. remove the --xx-- garbage from my email address if emailing me,
thanks

merk--xx--
Thu Feb 12 18:16:05 CST 2004

No backups here ... and i ran ndtsutil ... how do i cleanup metadata though

thanks

Marina
Thu Feb 12 19:02:28 CST 2004

The 2003 group is microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs

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Regards,

Marina
Microsoft SBS-MVP

"Ian L" <merk--xx--@imerk.net> schreef in bericht
news:3D22A914-CA1A-4641-86D8-1EA01874EACA@microsoft.com...
> had a sector go bad on my HD and the edb.log was effected and now i cant
boot up the machine normally. It gives me an error saying its rebuilding the
active directory and then i get a pop up window telling me:
>
> security accounts manager initialization failed. directory services cant
start. error status: 0x00002c1
>
> i can boot into the AD recovery mode but i'd like to get things working
normally. I never scheduled any backups of the edb.log or any of the other
files in there.
>
> There was a file called edb0001.log. i tried replacing the broken edb.log
with it but it didnt help.
>
> Is there anything i can do to correct this? Oh and this is on a SBS2003
machine. Couldnt find a 2003 group though.
>
> thanks,
>
> Ian
>
> P.S. remove the --xx-- garbage from my email address if emailing me,
thanks

Mark
Thu Feb 12 21:15:38 CST 2004

you don't "run" ntdsutil....it is command line....go through there and
you'll see cleanup metadata of AD.

--
Sincerely,
Mark Mancini, CCA, CCNA, Master CIW&CI, CNE 4&5, MCSE+I 4&2000
www.MCSE2000.com
www.AppLauncher.com



"Ian L" <merk--xx--@imerk.net> wrote in message
news:68BD9A05-29B2-4877-A60F-1AF289F8DA54@microsoft.com...
> No backups here ... and i ran ndtsutil ... how do i cleanup metadata
though?
>
> thanks

anonymous
Fri Feb 13 19:31:08 CST 2004

I meant i ran ntdsutil from the cmd prompt. Anyhow, i looked at metadata cleanup, but i dont see anything in there that looks like it would help. It first wants me to connect to a domain or server and i cant do that since the AD service isnt starting up on this machine

can i just wipe out the AD domain/database and start fresh? there really isnt anything in there that i think i need. Theres just the admin login, my personal user login and 2-3 other logins used by other apps. I can recreate those if i have to.

anonymous
Fri Feb 13 19:31:07 CST 2004

is that reachable through the web interface? I didnt see it on the selection of news groups.

anonymous
Fri Feb 13 19:41:06 CST 2004

btw, i also tried running file maintenace from ntdsutil

checksum didnt return any errors, but intergrity gave me this

file maintenance: in
Opening database [Current].*** Error: DBInitializeJetDatabase failed with [ Je
Error -528]

Error While Doing Soft Recover
Executing Command: C:\WINDOWS\system32\esentutl.exe /g"C:\WINDOWS\NTDS\ntds.dit
/

Initiating INTEGRITY mode..
Database: C:\WINDOWS\NTDS\ntds.di
Temp. Database: TEMPINTEG1416.ED

Checking database integrity

The database is not up-to-date. This operation may find tha
this database is corrupt because data from the log files ha
yet to be placed in the database

To ensure the database is up-to-date please use the 'Recovery' operation

Scanning Status (% complete

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 10
|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----
..................................................

Integrity check completed. Database is CORRUPTED

Operation terminated with error -1206 (JET_errDatabaseCorrupted, Non database f
le or corrupted db) after 4.657 seconds

Spawned Process Exit code 0xfffffb4a(-1206

If integrity was successful, it is recommende
you run semantic database analysis to ensur
semantic database consistency as well

Thanks for any other suggestions

Ia

Marina
Fri Feb 13 20:11:48 CST 2004

Yup, it should be. On msnews.microsoft.com you should be able to find it.

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Regards,

Marina
Microsoft SBS-MVP

"Ian L" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
news:215AD5B0-4F1A-4462-A96A-7180729B8A6D@microsoft.com...
> is that reachable through the web interface? I didnt see it on the
selection of news groups.