"Justin Weinberg" wrote:

> Hey reporting Gurus.
>
> I've spent the last eight hours or so trying to get reporting services
> reinstalled without success. I had a full blown installation, uninstalled
> it thinking I would try SQL 2005, changed my mind and attempted to reinstall
> after installing VS2005.
>
> I tried the following (and a little more):
> 1. Reinstalling SQL2K w. SP4
> 2. Removing the 2.0 framework
> 3. Targeting a new installation directory
> 4. Cleaning all directories
> 5. Clearing my downloaded assembly cache.
> 6. Trying various priviliged accounts to run the RS Service under.
>
> No matter how I slice it, the installation is fine until it attempts to
> start the reporting services service. It logs the following in the event
> log:
>
> Service cannot be started. System.TypeInitializationException: The type
> initializer for "Microsoft.ReportingServices.Library.Global" threw an
> exception. ---> System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type
> Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.EnumParameter from assembly
> Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics, Version=8.0.242.0, Culture=neutral,
> PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91.
> at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Library.Global..cctor()
> --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
> at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Library.Global.get_ConfigurationManager()
> at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Library.ServiceAppDomainController.Start()
> at Microsoft.ReportingServices.NTService.ReportService.OnStart(String[]
> args)
> at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase.ServiceQueuedMainCallback(Object
> state)
>
> My best guess is there is a versioning issue of some sort, possibly between
> some Reporting services SP2 stuff on my system. Any thoughts?
>
> Many thanks!
>
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