KB934525 Troubleshooting "Cannot start service SPAdmin on computer '.'."

re: KB934525 Troubleshooting "Cannot start service SPAdmin on computer '.'."

Jim — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:09:43 GMT

Excellent advice, and timely too - I've been battling this MS screw-up all day. None of the other workarounds I had found worked, your Option #4 did the trick - thank you :)

re: KB934525 Troubleshooting "Cannot start service SPAdmin on computer '.'."

bcowley — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:00:05 GMT

Thanks for this info William, however, I have followed your instructions in Option #4 and now I have a permissions problem! Any ideas?

re: KB934525 Troubleshooting "Cannot start service SPAdmin on computer '.'."

Bill Baer — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:15:57 GMT

Can you elaborate on the scope of the permissions problem you are experiencing?

re: KB934525 Troubleshooting "Cannot start service SPAdmin on computer '.'."

ms_bludger — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:31:09 GMT

Thanks Bill, you're a champ! Option # 4 sorted out my issues on day 2 of a new semester, the teachers were too busy to notice their site was down for a day and a half 8-)

re: KB934525 Troubleshooting "Cannot start service SPAdmin on computer '.'."

bcowley — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:41:46 GMT

William, I was being prompted for a username and password and regardless of what I entered I would be presented with a 'You are not authorized to view this page' message.

I simply rebooted the server again and everything seems to be working fine now.

Is there any detailed discussion as to what KB934525 actually did to break things??

Thanks again for your very valuable help, it has saved quite a bit of embarrassment and not to mention work for me!

Brian Cowley

re: KB934525 Troubleshooting "Cannot start service SPAdmin on computer '.'."

Kenneth Scott — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:19:12 GMT

Man I wish I'd known this last week. Great info- thanks!

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re: KB934525 Troubleshooting "Cannot start service SPAdmin on computer '.'."

Andy — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:46:31 GMT

Thanks for the advice - this is what got me back up and running without having to restore from backup:

1. Download this file that matches your OS. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A49472F9-93E

If you try to run the file it will tell you the patch is already installed but run the file with "/extract" extract the file to a temp folder and run "dw20w.msp" (can take a long time to run - 5mins for us, 1hr for others)

2. Stop the WSV3C service using a command prompt (net stop w3svc).

3. Change directory to <system drive>\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN and run the following command: psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait

re: KB934525 Troubleshooting "Cannot start service SPAdmin on computer '.'."

Chris Fields — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:06:15 GMT

We ran into a condition when running the configuration wizard in which for 2 1/2 hours all that was appearing in the upgrade log was the following:

SyncUpgradeTimerJob: sleeping for 10 seconds

We noticed that in our from dev and stage farms this message was only logged for a minute or two before the upgrade process proceeded. We also noticed that the upgrade had stopped the sptimerv3 service but we had an automated MOM rule that had restarted it. We simply stopped sptimerv3 for a few minutes then re-started it. Within 5 minutes the upgrade had proceeded passed the sleeping phase and was upgrading databases. It completed successfully.

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