I am setting up a machine as a domain controller under Windows Server 2003. I cannot track exactly what happened, but for some reason, the netman/Network Connections service is failing to start. The system will take an extraordinarily long time to boot up, and when it does, Netman is listed as Stopped. An attempt to start the service locks it in “Starting”. Eventually I get an error “Could not start Network Connections on Local Computer. Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.”
The windows System Log gives me an error “The COM+ Event System service hung on starting.” as well as another error “The System Event Notification service depends on the COM+ Event System service which failed to start because of the following error: After starting, the service hung in a start-pending state.”
The windows Application log give an error “The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was 80004015 from line 142 of d:\nt\com\complus\src\events\tier2\services.cpp”
Above that is another error: “The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was 80070005 from line 44 of d:\nt\com\complus\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp”
The COM+ Event System service is also locked in a “Starting” state.
I have had this error occur on other network clients (all Windows Server 2003 SP2). I found an old Windows 2000 KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307309 which did not successfully solve the problem. Any help would be majorly appreciated.