XP SP2 Login hangs

[Paul Cahill]

I've just installed XP SP2 on top of XP SP1 (fully patched).

Now I can't login. I get a blank screen.
If I ctrl-alt-del and use task manager to take out programs one by one I can
get in if I terminate one of the svchost.exe that is run by the user
NETWORK.
I'm not sure but I think that this may be the RPC service.
I then get the desktop but I have 60 secs till shutdown due to terminating a
system service.
I used shutdown -a to stop the shutdown. I can find much wrong except, like
another poster, my network connections are missing. Maybe this is due to
killing a system service.
The other strange thing is that windows installer seems to be broken. eg
running MSN Messenger after XP SP2 normally does a repair install. On this
machine installer hangs.

This pc has been installed for a while. ie lot's on it. I tried not enabling
the firewall. No luck. I'm suspecting the SP2 rpc changes.

Any ideas how I can diagnose what is hanging?
I have a ghost of before the upgrade and I have tried installing twice.
No joy.

Thanks
Paul

 

[Dan Smith]

I've just installed XP SP2 on top of XP SP1 (fully patched).

Now I can't login. I get a blank screen.
If I ctrl-alt-del and use task manager to take out programs one by one I can
get in if I terminate one of the svchost.exe that is run by the user
NETWORK.
I'm not sure but I think that this may be the RPC service.
I then get the desktop but I have 60 secs till shutdown due to terminating a
system service.
I used shutdown -a to stop the shutdown. I can find much wrong except, like
another poster, my network connections are missing. Maybe this is due to
killing a system service.
The other strange thing is that windows installer seems to be broken. eg
running MSN Messenger after XP SP2 normally does a repair install. On this
machine installer hangs.

This pc has been installed for a while. ie lot's on it. I tried not enabling
the firewall. No luck. I'm suspecting the SP2 rpc changes.

Any ideas how I can diagnose what is hanging?
I have a ghost of before the upgrade and I have tried installing twice.
No joy.

Thanks
Paul

Uninstall SP2, and wait for another 6 months, until MS can debug at
least 50% of the problems that SP2 will cause now. SP2 has been breaking
systems left and right, and the list is just beginning to get bigger.
SP1 did the same thing when it came out.

 

[Paul Cahill]

I now know it doesn't hang. I just takes 20 mins to login and then is very,
very slow but with 0 cpu usage shown.
In event viewer, various services are failing to start with dcom timeout
errors.

 

[Guest]

I'm having the same problem. It takes 10 mins to login with 0 cpu usage.
After login I have no problem.