[sims] Sims SQL error - How do I resolve this one?

[rad]

Sorry for asking here, the attached error appears on one classroom computer after you login. Sims worked fine last week, I tried reinstalling Solus and also the software, still no joy.

If I log onto the pc and load SOLUS it does a Windows error and closes the program.

 

If nothing works... the computer is getting it (rebuild)

[forkies]

What's the windows error?

 

I would check dependencies, we had an issue similar to this a while back, turned out to be corrupt .net, reinstalled .net and fixed it.

[jinnantonnixx]

I took some time to learn how to use WinDbg and it's paid dividends many times over with problems like this.

 

Windbg looks horrendous at first, but it's incredibly powerful and useful.

 

To find the problem attach Windbg to Pulsar and you'd probably get to the root cause with the command !pe

 

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/johan/2008/01/31/using-windbg-hunting-exceptions/

 

If you want a walk-through for this problem, get Windbg on the machine and we'll go from there....

Edited September 27, 2016 by jinnantonnixx

[rpwillis]

It could be a problem with pulsar.exe.config which is an xml configuration file. You'll get that error if its got invalid xml in or if it doesn't follow the correct schema. Compare it to one on a machine which works.

[JHLEHS]

Try re-installing the re-reqs by running SIMSINFRASTRUCTURE onto the machine.

 

Also try a repair of .net framework. I would advise taking a look in event viewer on the machine and see if gives you more information.

[rad]

Cheers all for your help. Unfortunately I went for the drastic option, rebuild PC and reinstall sims. All working now.

 

If this comes up again, I will try these out first.