Sounds like possibly a SP or hotfix version mismatch. I'd call PSS if it's a production box as time == money.
Chris -- Chris Scharff Senior Sales Engineer MessageOne If you can't measure, you can't manage! > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 1:27 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Event 123 and server down! > > > Hi all, > I'm getting the following errors on MSX 5.5 SP4 and the store > doesn't start. > > I spent all day on Technet and reading the MSX Disaster > Recovery Guide, but didn't find useful informations on the > "log version stamp" error, so I decided to make an offline > backup of the stores, and then a restore of the last PRIV and > PUB stores (backed up last Saturday), plus the differential > backed up last night. Unfortunately the store still doesn't start. > > BEFORE RESTORE > ============== > Application Log: > 1) 27/02/02 14.24.15 ESE97 Error Logging/Recovery > 123 N/A SERVER3 MSExchangeIS (477) Log version > stamp does not match > database engine version stamp. > 2) 27/02/02 14.24.15 MSExchangeIS Error General > 1120 N/A SERVER3 Error > 0xfffffdfe initializing the Microsoft Exchange Server > Information Store database. > 3) 27/02/02 14.24.15 MSExchangeIS Error General > 5000 N/A SERVER3 Unable > to initialize the Microsoft Exchange Information Store > service. Error 0xfffffdfe. > > System Log: > 1) 27/02/02 14.24.15 Service Control > Manager Error None 7024 N/A SERVER3 The > Microsoft Exchange Information > Store service terminated with service-specific error 4294966782. > > AFTER RESTORE > ============= > Application Log: > 1) 27/02/02 19.18.13 ESE97 Error > Logging/Recovery 123 N/A SERVER3 (512) > Log version stamp does not match database engine version stamp. > 2) 27/02/02 19.18.13 MSExchangeIS Error > Recovery 1081 N/A SERVER3 Unable > to recover the database because error 0xc8000202 occurred > after a restore operation. > 3) 27/02/02 19.18.13 MSExchangeIS Error General > 5000 N/A SERVER3 Unable > to initialize the Microsoft Exchange Information Store > service. Error 0xc8000202. > > System Log: > 1) 27/02/02 19.18.13 Service Control > Manager Error None 7024 N/A SERVER3 The > Microsoft Exchange Information > Store service terminated with service-specific error 3355443714. > > > System is MSX 5.5 SP4 on SBS 4.5 (NT4 SP6a). I was running > Exchange Optimizer and it hung attemping to restart the store > service. Trend ScanMail 3.8 was temporarily disabled as I > was invesigating for crashes possibly due to ScanMail. > > After several months of good operation ScanMail 3.6 caused me > some bad store crashes that I have always been able to > recover from backups. After having loaded ScanMail 3.8 > everything went fine for a week, until today... > > Can anybody give some good recommendations that I can try > tonight (it's 8 pm in Italy), or should I make "that" call to > PSS in the morning? > > Thanks in advance, > Alberto _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

