Certificate Services won't start on a new off-line root CA.

From: msnews.microsoft.com (eric_james_chamberlain@hotmail.com)
Date: 02/08/03


From: "msnews.microsoft.com" <eric_james_chamberlain@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 21:39:55 -0800


I'm attempting to setup an off-line root CA. This is on a clean install of
Windows 2000AS with SP3 and all the critical updates. I'd like to use a
Schlumberger e-gate 32K smart card to store the CA private key. I select
the Schlumberger CSP and 2048-bit when I generate the CA certificate. The
private key appears on the card, and the certificate appears in the
certificate store. When I then try and start the Certificate Services, I am
prompted for the PIN, I enter it, and then I get the following error
messages:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7024
Date: 2/6/2003
Time: 10:30:05 AM
User: N/A
Computer: AD-PE01
Description:
The Certificate Services service terminated with service-specific error
2148073485.

Application Log:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: CertSvc
Event Category: None
Event ID: 42
Date: 2/6/2003
Time: 10:30:05 AM
User: N/A
Computer: AD-PE01
Description:
Certificate Services did not start: Could not build CA certificate chain for
UCB Root CA. Key does not exist. 0x8009000d (-2146893811).

I have searched google, but can't find any reference to these error
messages. The closest I can find is KB article 295162, but the folder
mentioned in the resolution already has Administrator and SYSTEM Full
Control and the error numbers I receive are different.

--
Eric Chamberlain, CISSP


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