Immediate logoff after logon

[Guest skitzsofrenick]

Does anyone know why windows 2003 would log off a user right after logon? I

thought it may be due to a corrupt profile, so I logged into it for the first

time and it happened to me. It only happens via console or RDP. Safe mode is

fine. I dont see anything in the event viewer other than some apps that are

being shutdown in mid stream due to the logoff. I am having the user check

any programs or updates that were installed to compare this to when the

server started showing issues. I also checked a chkdisk.

 

Any ideas?

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Immediate logoff after logon

 

 

"skitzsofrenick" <skitzsofrenick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Does anyone know why windows 2003 would log off a user right after logon?

> I

> thought it may be due to a corrupt profile, so I logged into it for the

> first

> time and it happened to me. It only happens via console or RDP. Safe mode

> is

> fine. I dont see anything in the event viewer other than some apps that

> are

> being shutdown in mid stream due to the logoff. I am having the user check

> any programs or updates that were installed to compare this to when the

> server started showing issues. I also checked a chkdisk.

>

> Any ideas?

 

This usually happens when the system is unable to locate userinit.exe,

e.g. when the system drive letter changes after a disk cloning operation.

However, it then persists both in Normal and in Safe Mode. Try

checking the system drive letter by booting in Normal Mode and

running this command:

psexec \\YourServer cmd

(psexec.exe: http://www.sysinternals.com)

[Guest Meinolf Weber]

Re: Immediate logoff after logon

 

Hello skitzsofrenick,

 

See here about it:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555648

 

Best regards

 

Meinolf Weber

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> Does anyone know why windows 2003 would log off a user right after

> logon? I thought it may be due to a corrupt profile, so I logged into

> it for the first time and it happened to me. It only happens via

> console or RDP. Safe mode is fine. I dont see anything in the event

> viewer other than some apps that are being shutdown in mid stream due

> to the logoff. I am having the user check any programs or updates that

> were installed to compare this to when the server started showing

> issues. I also checked a chkdisk.

>

> Any ideas?

>

[Guest skitzsofrenick]

Re: Immediate logoff after logon

 

Interesting. Thanks. I passed this down. I will also mention that apparently

it happened a few months ago after updates were dl and installed, the system

possibly ran out of space at the time. Maybe a bad/partial install of one?

who knows. I guess files were compressed and removed via microsofts built-in

utility.. Could compression be a possible cause here, now if the wrong files

were del i can see that being an issue which is also in the link...

 

 

"Meinolf Weber" wrote:

> Hello skitzsofrenick,

>

> See here about it:

> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555648

>

> Best regards

>

> Meinolf Weber

> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers

> no rights.

> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups

> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm

>

> > Does anyone know why windows 2003 would log off a user right after

> > logon? I thought it may be due to a corrupt profile, so I logged into

> > it for the first time and it happened to me. It only happens via

> > console or RDP. Safe mode is fine. I dont see anything in the event

> > viewer other than some apps that are being shutdown in mid stream due

> > to the logoff. I am having the user check any programs or updates that

> > were installed to compare this to when the server started showing

> > issues. I also checked a chkdisk.

> >

> > Any ideas?

> >

>

>

>

[Guest Fixer982]

RE: Immediate logoff after logon

 

Hi,

 

We rolled out a new Legal Notice using a registry file, and 2 of our older

servers which had the windows folder as c:\WINNT had the same problem. Check

using remote registry that the userinit.exe path is correct as the article

mentioned.

Worked for us (it was a dumb mistake).

 

Regards

Ian

 

"skitzsofrenick" wrote:

> Does anyone know why windows 2003 would log off a user right after logon? I

> thought it may be due to a corrupt profile, so I logged into it for the first

> time and it happened to me. It only happens via console or RDP. Safe mode is

> fine. I dont see anything in the event viewer other than some apps that are

> being shutdown in mid stream due to the logoff. I am having the user check

> any programs or updates that were installed to compare this to when the

> server started showing issues. I also checked a chkdisk.

>

> Any ideas?