IIS Stopped working !

Jeff,

Thanks for a good set of questions. Here's more details not written at
midnight as I watch my server melt away....

While positng some data to one of my own sites (we clock our time in a web
based application), the server came back with a 'page not found' error. I
tried to remote into the server and it reported as 'could not contact....' I
waited 5or so minutes and, as I thought the server had rebooted and was
coming back up.


Except that neither IIS nor Cold Fusion Application service (CF-MX server)
would start.

The error logs in the event viewer shoed an error type 2 for the CF MX
issue. The iis service reported that it was unable to start because there was
not enough storage available.

I checked the swap file - the server has 750 megs ram, and 770meg to 2 gig
swap file.

I checked permissions on the log file ditrectory - all was as it was priro
to problems.

I checked the c drive - had 1.2 gigs of 8 gigs available on drive c;
Drive d had 9.2 or 26 gigs available

When trying to start WWWPublishing from the system interface when double
clicking on WWW publushing, the blue bar goes 1/2 way across, and then a grey
dialog box comes up with : The service could not be started. There is not
enough storgae space to start complete this operation."

So this morning, I began to conclude that it was permissions and not storage
that had changed.

Other log file entires showed that some sevices had not started because the
registry or dll was not properly installed... (I'm paraphrasing here, the
implication was that either the dll was missing, corrupt or was associated
with an improper registry entry.)

So I went to my trusty backup and restored the system state from late last
week.

Reboot.

Fired up. All was good.

What I learned was that:

backups are a good thing.

windows erors sometimes do not meant what they say - 'Not enough storage'
can also be interpreted as 'I can't write to someplace I think I should write
to, so therefore we must be out of disk space...

oh, and backups are a good thing.

Marty Block
Kesem Technology
"Jeff Cochran" wrote:

 > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:29:12 -0700, "techdog"
 > <techdog DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
 >
  > >I run ColdFusion and IIS on a win2k Server. The server simply stopped serving
  > >pages.
 >
 > What changed? (And yes, something did change, even if you don't
 > realize it)
 >
  > >On restart, iis reports 'error 14 Not enough storage available to complete
  > >the operation."
 >
 > IIS reports this? Or W2K? Is there a corresponding event log entry?
 >
  > >Event logs seem normal - not report of anomalous stuff until the restart.
 >
 > Until the restart? What about *after* the restart?
 >
  > >ColdFusion will not start either.
 >
 > Error messages there?
 >
  > >Have plenty of disk space - 1+ gig on the main c drive, 9+ gigs on data,
  > >swap file size is automatic.
  > >
  > >Any ideas would be helpful - I am a hosting co with aboujt 20 sites on this
  > >server.
 >
 > One common issue used to be changes to the system without the service
 > pack being reapplied, but I thought those issues were only NT4 and
 > previous.
 >
 > Jeff
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