Fresh MS 2012 R2 instance from the family - MSDTC event log errors - why/worrying?

[Johan Eriksson]

Has anyone seen similar problems with Windows images and know the cause/remedy?

I would normally expect a prebaked image to boot without errors in the event log.

Detailed error text and event log below. 

---

Failed to initialize the needed name objects. Error Specifics: hr = 0x80004005, com\complus\dtc\dtc\msdtcprx\src\dtcinit.cpp:575, CmdLine: C:\windows\system32\dllhost.exe /Processid:{02D4B3F1-FD88-11D1-960D-00805FC79235}, Pid: 1488

 

IA1P24WABIS000

4427

Error

Microsoft-Windows-MSDTC

Application

8/31/2016 11:53:59 AM

---

[Mani Gandham]

MSDTC is the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator, it's used for distributed transactions on Windows systems for things like databases or clustered applications, usually using the COM interface.

Unless you're running any distributed applications that are built using these primitives (which would be very rare these days), this isn't something to really worry about. There's likely some GCE customizations to the OS image that interfere with the MSDTC service but it's not stopping you from doing anything, especially if you're running a brand new image.

[Johan Eriksson]

Thanks for describing MSDTC and COM - Although I was more hoping for an explanation of the nature of the error and how it crept into a brand new image from Google.

It worries me that a Google supplied image would have a problem like that on first boot without any modifications.

[Paul Nash]

Hi Johan,

Thanks for reporting this. I don't have an answer as to why this message might be showing up, but wanted to let you know that we've made a note of it, and are investigating if there's any misconfiguration or other issue to explain it.

--
© 2016 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
 
Email preferences: You received this email because you signed up for the Google Compute Engine Discussion Google Group (gce-discussion@googlegroups.com) to participate in discussions with other members of the Google Compute Engine community and the Google Compute Engine Team.
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gce-discussion" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gce-discussion+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to gce-discussion@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gce-discussion/43a10c62-110f-4255-b4f4-9432053e6d7b%40googlegroups.com.

For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--

Paul R. Nash |

Product Manager, Compute Engine |

paul...@google.com |

206-876-1620