A system call that should never fail

[techer]

Hi

One of our Win2K servers has started unexpectedly shutting down, as well as displaying weird events in the System log.

Just before the latest reboot, the DHCP service generated:

Event ID: 1004
Description: The DHCP Client service is shutting down. The following error occurred : A system call that should never fail has failed.

Then there was a system shutdown.

Does anybody know what on earth this means? After the reboot occurred, the Netlogon service wouldn't start because:
"Event 5737: The system returned the following unexpected error code: Either the application has not called WSAStartup, or WSAStartup failed."

Then a whole bunch of services that depend on Netlogon can't start either. The only change to the system was that some WindowsUpdates were applied on Friday.

Can anybody help ?

Thanks for your time.

..go the socceroos! : )

 

[Seaspray0]

If you have rebooted and logged on since the installation of the patches, then you can't revert to "last known good configuration". Do you have a recent backup?

Start, Help. You'll be surprised what's there. A+/MCP/MCSE/MCDBA

 

[techer]

Thanks for the response.

My technician onsite has rebuilt the server by reinstalling the TCP/IP Stack and other networking components. It was a long slow process, but the server appears to be working correctly now.

I'm still not 100% confident in the stability of the server at this stage, so there will probably also have to be a complete server rebuild in the near future.

Cheers