Anyone ever have this issue?

vCole

On one of our servers, every time you login you have to click through this at least 10 times for it to stop.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Mishra

Never seen it.

Do you have all the .net service packs installed?

Lee H

yer ive had that, i fixed it by downloading the manifold sprocket

sorry fade, couldnt help that one

vCole

Mishra wrote:

Never seen it.

Do you have all the .net service packs installed?

Not sure, this is my second week. The "Systems Administrator" knows 0 about networking. She outsources it all, so I'm trying to figure it out by myself.

dynamik

Have you checked the event logs for any errors?

94jedi

dynamik wrote:

Have you checked the event logs for any errors?

do that then maybe re-install dotnet and make sure the SP's are up to date.

paintb4707

This seems to be the srvinfo.exe process. Try removing it from your startup in msconfig.

dynamik

Whoa, lets not remove mysterious things hastily. The other day, I was at a place that disabled automatic updates because some updates break ancient software that they use. Sometimes things are there for a reason, even if it isn't apparent.

cisco_trooper

dynamik wrote:

Have you checked the event logs for any errors?

+1

Find the offending event ID in your event logs then google it...

paintb4707

dynamik wrote:

Whoa, lets not remove mysterious things hastily. The other day, I was at a place that disabled automatic updates because some updates break ancient software that they use. Sometimes things are there for a reason, even if it isn't apparent.

Edited :P

And for the record, it's not going to harm anything.

http://activexperts.com/activmonitor/windowsmanagement/reskit2003/0198/

vCole

dynamik wrote:

Have you checked the event logs for any errors?

Getting a lot of srvinfo.exe errors in Event Viewer

laidbackfreak

dynamik wrote:

The other day, I was at a place that disabled automatic updates because some updates break ancient software that they use. Sometimes things are there for a reason, even if it isn't apparent.

I dont have automatic updates on any of my production servers (all 300 of them) for that very reason....

vCole

paintb4707 wrote:

This seems to be the srvinfo.exe process. Try removing it from your startup in msconfig.

it's not even in startup.

paintb4707

FadeToBright wrote:

paintb4707 wrote:

This seems to be the srvinfo.exe process. Try removing it from your startup in msconfig.

it's not even in startup.

Once again, I'd just uninstall it if it were me. It's just a Windows tool kit, like Windows Server Support Tools.

Sie

dynamik wrote:
Have you checked the event logs for any errors?

do that then maybe re-install dotnet

+1, srvinfo is fairly harmless. Its functionality is very similar to systeminfo.

Personally I would reinstall .Net frameworks and re-install the W2K3 Res Kit.

While disabling it would solve it its a work around and not a fix.

dynamik

paintb4707 wrote:

And for the record, it's not going to harm anything.

It might not be on the same level as deleting critical system files or something like that, but it may break things. It's hard to say without knowing what they're using it for. That was my only point.

vCole

dynamik wrote:

paintb4707 wrote:

And for the record, it's not going to harm anything.

It might not be on the same level as deleting critical system files or something like that, but it may break things. It's hard to say without knowing what they're using it for. That was my only point.

I don't think they're using it for anything to be honest.

Sie

dynamik wrote:

paintb4707 wrote:

And for the record, it's not going to harm anything.

It might not be on the same level as deleting critical system files or something like that, but it may break things. It's hard to say without knowing what they're using it for. That was my only point.

For one client we have scripts that piped the output through a filter and scheduled reboots according to the system up times. If they werent rebooted it caused memory leaks and they couldnt be rebooted too often as they needed to have xx% uptime. Twas a headache.

My point is that im with Dynamik and as said previously you should aim to fix it rather than hide it away / disable it.

paintb4707

Sie wrote:

dynamik wrote:

paintb4707 wrote:

And for the record, it's not going to harm anything.

It might not be on the same level as deleting critical system files or something like that, but it may break things. It's hard to say without knowing what they're using it for. That was my only point.

My point is that im with Dynamik and as said previously you should aim to fix it rather than hide it away / disable it.

My suggestion for disabling it (or removing the process from startup) was only a temporary solution to check for stability. Basically simulating the removal process without actually removing it. Either way, reinstalling the application is usually one of the troubleshooting steps that would be involved with an issue like this.

jamesp1983

dynamik wrote:

Have you checked the event logs for any errors?

it is your friend...

94jedi

jimmypizzle83 wrote:

dynamik wrote:

Have you checked the event logs for any errors?

it is your friend...

yea, but sometimes the event log is so ambiguous...

It is the first place you should look though.

Sie

If it isn't within startup check if its part of a scheduled task or check Security Logs with Application logs then you can tell if someone was logged at the same time. Maybe permissions have been locked down and the user trying to run this hasnt got the correct rights.

Is the timing of the errors consistant? IE: Every 30 mins or the same time each day.

This would make me start looking for scripts or scheduled tasks.

vCole

reinstalled the resource toolkit, fixed it.

I guess it's been an issue for 2+ years!

Sie

FadeToBright wrote:

reinstalled the resource toolkit, fixed it.

I guess it's been an issue for 2+ years!

Glad you got it sorted, You would be suprised how long people leave things just cause they can get by with how it is

cbigbrick

New job and already solving problems!!!

Congradulations!!

vCole

Sie wrote:

FadeToBright wrote:

reinstalled the resource toolkit, fixed it.

I guess it's been an issue for 2+ years!

Glad you got it sorted, You would be suprised how long people leave things just cause they can get by with how it is

I guess they've ask their OLD network guy 3 years ago to do it, then the new networking consultants to do it as well. Neither of them could figure it out!

skrpune

FadeToBright wrote:

Sie wrote:

FadeToBright wrote:

reinstalled the resource toolkit, fixed it.

I guess it's been an issue for 2+ years!

Glad you got it sorted, You would be suprised how long people leave things just cause they can get by with how it is

I guess they've ask their OLD network guy 3 years ago to do it, then the new networking consultants to do it as well. Neither of them could figure it out!

Congrats to you for figuring out what they couldn't...wow, just two weeks on the job and you're already proving to them that you're a good hire - good work!!