Can't access Central Administration site

Mike in Nebraska

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May 8, 2009, 10:47:17 AM5/8/09

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Setup: MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard, with IIS 6 and SQL
Server 2005. Current on patches. All of MOSS is on a single server, with
the option to expand to others.
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Last week I found about 6-8 solutions and features on CodePlex I
thought we could use in the near future, once I've rolled out SharePoint to
the staff, so I downloaded them and installed them. Activated them on my
top-level site and ran iisreset /noforce, after closing the browser. The
next day I found I could not get to ANY SP site. I had done several backups
in the last month, and tested one as a restore to see if it'd work - it did.
However, I can't get to the Central Admin site so I can't do a restore. I'm
assuming I can do it from a command-line with STSADM.exe, but I can't make
heads or tails out of the syntax on how to start the process.
So (and I was probably wrong), I did a restore of the server to the
most recent state before I installed the solutions and features. I can get
to all sits now BUT the Central Admin site. When I browse to it - remotely
or on the server itself - I get:

Server Error in '/' Application.
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Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom
error settings for this application prevent the details of the application
error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however,
be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable
on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config"
configuration file located in the root directory of the current web
application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute
set to "Off".

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I've tried running the SP Technologies wizard, but it completes half the
time and fails the others. The problem appears to be in IIS (as I infer
from this Application Log entry):

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Event Type: Warning
Event Source: ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0
Event Category: Web Event
Event ID: 1310
Date: 5/8/2009
Time: 9:25:45 AM
User: N/A
Computer: WCT-SHAREPOINT
Description:
Event code: 3008
Event message: A configuration error has occurred.
Event time: 5/8/2009 9:25:45 AM
Event time (UTC): 5/8/2009 2:25:45 PM
Event ID: 494f8c2e22b94d56bf7270b1c251f213
Event sequence: 1
Event occurrence: 1
Event detail code: 0

Application information:
Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/1457405897/Root-10-128862663453573726
Trust level: WSS_Minimal
Application Virtual Path: /
Application Path: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\45553\
Machine name: WCT-SHAREPOINT

Process information:
Process ID: 8008
Process name: w3wp.exe
Account name: WHOOPER\server_farm

Exception information:
Exception type: HttpException
Exception message: Could not load file or assembly
'Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.ExtendedSearch, Version=2.5.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a646907c4a695009' or one of its
dependencies. Failed to grant minimum permission requests. (Exception from
HRESULT: 0x80131417)

Request information:
Request URL: http://wct-sharepoint:4633/
Request path: /
User host address: 192.168.16.3
User:
Is authenticated: False
Authentication Type:
Thread account name: WHOOPER\server_farm

Thread information:
Thread ID: 5
Thread account name: WHOOPER\server_farm
Is impersonating: False
Stack trace: at
System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.ReportTopLevelCompilationException()
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.EnsureTopLevelFilesCompiled()
at System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.Initialize(ApplicationManager
appManager, IApplicationHost appHost, IConfigMapPathFactory
configMapPathFactory, HostingEnvironmentParameters hostingParameters)

Custom event details:

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
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I've tried googling and lookingmon EventID.net, but to no avail. I could
sure use some help. Any one have some ideas?

--
Mike Webb
Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust, Inc.
a conservation non-profit (501 (c)(3)) organization
Wood River, NE

Harish [MSFT]

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Dec 15, 2009, 10:29:53 AM12/15/09

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Follow these steps,

Enable the Custom errors in the web.config fie of the central admin.

Open web.config file,

1. Search for <trace> change the value to true.
2. Search for <Customerrors> change the value to "RemoteOnly" (same
format).

Reopen the website it will give you the full stack trace. Check which
assembly is causing it. Comment it out.

Most likely it will be this one,

Dhiraj [MSFT]

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Jan 6, 2010, 6:14:42 PM1/6/10

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Hello Mike,

You can also try running the Configuration Wizard on the Sharepoint Central
Admin server and check the behavior.

Hope this helps.

Dhiraj [MSFT]