WMI corrupted on Windows 2003 Server

[Damir]

Hi all,

I have expirienced strange behaviour with WMI, and don't know what to
do else. The server is Windows 2003 Standard Edition with SP1, and
running MS SQL 2000 server.

Suddenly, we noticed lots of errors in event log "The server
{73E709EA-5D93-4B2E-BBB0-99B7938DA9E4} did not register with DCOM
within the required timeout." which I tracked down to "Microsoft WMI
Provider Subsystem Host" in the registry.

When I connect to the machine via Computer Management it says that it
fails to initialise all WMI classes:

The text reads:

Failed to initialise all required WMI classes:

Win32_Processors: Windows: Server execution failed
Win32_WMISetting: Successful
Security information: Successful
Win32_OperatingSystem: Windows: Server execution failed

I followed the rebuild procedure from
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/wmifaq.mspx,
and everything went correctly except the last step:

"for %i in (*.exe) do %i /RegServer"

with error "File '/RegServer' not found!" in mofcomp.log file.

Can anyone help me fix this WMI?

 

[Gabriel GHIZILA [MSFT]]

The script went probably fine, the steps on the page are a little bit
simplified. There are at leaset three exe files in the wbem folder that
needs not to be register (w/ RegServer), i.e. wmic, mofcomp and wbemtest.
mofcomp assumes that /RegServer is a file that needs to be compiled which is
obvioualy not the case. Just ignoring the error should be fine.

 

[Xentax]

The script went probably fine, the steps on the page are a littl
bit
simplified. There are at leaset three exe files in the wbem folde
that
needs not to be register (w/ RegServer), i.e. wmic, mofcomp an
wbemtest.
mofcomp assumes that /RegServer is a file that needs to be compile
which is
obvioualy not the case. Just ignoring the error should be fine.

I did the auto-rebuild, and it seemed to work, but I still get th
exact same error the original poster reported (in my case, Win XP Pr
sp2, when I run DxDiag or several games either their first time o
every time).

I think at some point my install of DX 9.0c got borked via a Syste
Restore ... I just can't figure out exactly how to get it 'unborked'.

Any suggestions on next steps


-
Xenta