Guest skitzsofrenick Posted June 11, 2008 Posted June 11, 2008 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 \(MVP\) Posted June 11, 2008 Posted June 11, 2008 Re: Immediate logoff after logon "skitzsofrenick" <skitzsofrenick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B96AB17A-E8AA-47F6-96F6-48CE2439FA87@microsoft.com... > 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 Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 Re: Immediate logoff after logon 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 skitzsofrenick Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 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 Posted June 18, 2008 Posted June 18, 2008 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?
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