I haven't experienced this problem myself but I suspect that at a
minimum you'll fill your application log (event viewer) with events
indicating that the perf counters were not accessible.
Can you rebuild the corrupted counters? Seems like I remember reading
an MSDN article a while back that outlined some steps for doing that.
I don't know if it works or not.
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[quoted text, click to view] On 19 Aug 2005 13:43:43 -0700, "kate" <k@alert-tech.co.uk> wrote:
>hi joe,
>
>we have been investigating this one, and we believe the server (running
>SBS) is suffering from a known corruption problem of the performance
>counters which is preventing any app from creating new counters. When
>we come to register the new NS app we think that it is encountering
>this problem and failing because of it.
>
>We can work around the error return from nscontrol (create a temporary
>msi that ignores thet return code) and let the build continue with no
>performance counters existing, do you think we will get any further
>errors when we come to run NS.
>
>Just how dependant is it on the counters?
>
>can we tell nscontrol to build without counters?
>
>
>Kate MBCS
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This is most likely due to performance counter corruption on the machine.
THe following KB article may help:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;827963 Note especially the link to a .NET framework fix towards the end of the
article.
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[quoted text, click to view] "kate" <k@alert-tech.co.uk> wrote in message
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> we are setting up ns standard on a w2k server and we get the following
>
> nscontrol.exe register -name trackerinstance -server ARG-SERVER
> -service -serviceusername localsystem
>
> ns registry entries being updated
> ns windows service is being installed
> ns performance counters are being installed
>
> performance counter category could not be installed
> category name: ns$trackerinstance : vacuumer
> input string was not in correct format
>
>
>
> any ideas as to the problem?
>
>
> kate patterson
>
