Reinstalling COM+ 5

[WiseNewbie]

Hey,

I have a critical issue with COM+ not being able to be reinstalled properly. I removed COM3 registry key from the registry, then renamed the catalog file in system32 and tried to reinstall COM+ by going to Add/Remove windows components but i get this error:

Sub-component COM+ raised an exception while processing the OC_COMPLETE_INSTALLATION setup message.
d:\nt\com\com1x\src\complussetup\comsetup\ccompluscore.cpp (line 565)
Error Code = 0x80040155
Interface not registered
The COM+ event classes could not be registered.

I'm on a Windows XP Professional machine with IIS v5.1 instaleld and ASP.NET v1.1, i cannot get IIS to serve ASP or ASP.NET files, no not to do with a firewall and i've tried setting IWAM and IUSR passwords...

can anyone help? I dont want to reformat and reinstall cause i have about 500GB(RAID) system which 400GB is filled with our work and VS.NET etc

 

[Zoolie]

Hi guys.
I see you are all smart.
I have this ugly problem too.
I do what i read in this topic,and whats Mothy75 wrote down but when installing winxp components at the"installing Com+" text the system stops,and i got an error message,and when its done,my xp do the same thing that before this procedure!
HELP ME PLEASE!
THANX IN ADV!

 

[riven1128]

I got this fixed by doing the following:

From a dos box

C:\> move %WinDir%\System32\Clbcatq.dll %WinDir%\System32\~Clbcatq.dll

REBOOT

C:\> cd %windir%
C:\WINDOWS> rmdir /s Registration
C:\> reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\COM3

Go to the control panel, select "Add/Remove program files" and then "Add/Remove windows components", just click "Next" and it will reinstall COM+

BACK AT THAT DOS PROMPT

C:\WINDOWS> regsvr32 ole32.dll
C:\WINDOWS> regsvr32 oleaut32.dll


After I did this, I installed IIS again and everything worked like a champ.

 

[Serb]

i've followed those steps, but when I get to the step:

rmdir /s Registration

I get an error message saying:

Registration\R00000000000b.clb - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

How do I get around that?

 

[riven1128]

The error says that the file is in use by another process, so I'd suggest continuing in safe mode.

 

[Serb]

Nope, tried the safe mode and got the same error.

 

[studentjosh]

Mothy75's post definitely worked for me. I was having some of the symptom's described here and having my computer restarting suddenly whenever I would try to reinstall IIS, or create a web application or web service in Visual Studio 2003.

 

[SOS4Auctions]

I had all of the above symptoms.

cscript \inetpub\adminscripts\synciwam.vbs -v

terminated with the com plus related error.

I didn't want to mess around in the registry, so I tried a repair install. When I tried install, I received the message that my computer had a newer system than was on the release CD. I then backed out all of the hot fixes and SP2. When I again tried the CD, I found that it doesn't have a repair feature; only an initial install or an upgrade install.

So, in complete frustration, I decided to see if backing out all of the newer stuff might have fixed the problem. I verified that localhost still received the same errors. I reran

cscript \inetpub\adminscripts\synciwam.vbs -v

This time it ran to completion without getting the com plus error. When I then tried localhost, everything was up and running. My next step will be to reinstall all of those fixes and SP2 -- and pray that doing so doesn't break things again.

My best bet is that SP2 interferes with the VBS script and presents the same symptoms as you'd get with a 'real' com plus corruption problem.

Thanks to all of the earlier contributors. I wouldn't have had a chance without your ideas concerning what was wrong and ideas of how to fix it.

BTW, I'm on XP Pro and have been fighting ASP NET problems ever since I installed VB.NET a year ago. As I was de-installing IIS, dot net and VB.net, I discovered that my problem all along was that I had, during some kind of mental lapse, disabled the ASPNET account. I could have saved myself several days of frustration if I had discovered that before the de-installs.

 

[StefanWestling]

I had this problem after installing Visual Studio.Net and the .NET Framework. Suddenly IIS didn't run ASP scripts anymore (just got "Server Application Error"). I tracked it down to a missbehaving COM+ Service, unistalled it but when I tried to reinstall (following those steps by riven1128) it failed to register a class. The COM+ service was not installed properly and I cound't start the service. I made a reboot and just reinstalled COM+ again by clicking <Next> in Add/remove Window Components and I could start the COM+ Service.

Then I just reinstalled IIS and the ASP files were back online. Still the ASP.NET didn't work but after some research I found a tool shipped with the .NET Framework to do the trick. The tool is aspnet_regiis.exe and shoud be used with the parameter -i to get scriptmaps and metabase correctly installed.

Anyways, thanx a bunch to all contributors in this thread. Wouldn't made it without you.