RE: Cryptography service won't start on XP SP2

From: ozarkcanoer (ozarkcanoer_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/12/05


Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 07:46:08 -0700

I found the Event Viewer in the Computer Managment console. There was an
error (many of them) that had this message:
"The Cryptographic Services service terminated with the following
error:Cryptographic Services is not a valid Win32 application."

What can cause this? How do I fix it? Help!
 thanks,
Larry

"ozarkcanoer" wrote:

> I'm having problems downloading and installing the latest (Aug 9 2005) set of
> security updates from Microsoft. I looked into one of them and saw that the
> Cryptography service wasn't running. It is set to start automatically but
> isn't. I tried to manually start it and get an error: 193-0xc1. I've tried
> deleting the CatRoot2 directory, rebooting and starting Cryptography, and
> unregistering and reregistering a set of related DLLs per information I found
> on the net. Nothing is getting Cryptography service to start up. I never
> had problems with the monthly updates in the past.
>
> The only other unusual situtation recently is that I had to do a Windows
> Repair Install after having problems caused by bad disk blocks. After doing
> the disk repair and the Repair install I cloned the problem disk onto a new
> drive and that's what I'm running from. Everything else works OK to my
> knowledge.
>
> Any suggestions? I've appended the update log that first let me know that
> Cryptography wasn't running, though I don't see that it offers any other
> clues.
>
> thanks,
> Larry
> -----------
> [KB899591.log]
> 0.844:
> ================================================================================
> 0.844: 2005/08/10 19:28:50.000 (local)
> 0.844:
> C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download\S-1-5-18\ff9844a0f0feaa5597f75dcffabb8d43\update\update.exe (version 6.1.22.4)
> 0.844: Hotfix started with following command line: /si
> /ParentInfo:b20ffbf19ff8084699926f620e88d52a
> 901.078: PrepareToTrustInfFile: MySetupCopyOEMInf failed: 0x426
> 901.078: IsInfFileTrusted: PrepareToTrustInfFile Failed: 0x426
> 901.110: InstallInfCatalogFile: Installing
> c:\windows\softwaredistribution\download\s-1-5-18\ff9844a0f0feaa5597f75dcffabb8d43\update\KB899591.cat as _000000_.cat...
> 901.110: VerifySize: Unable to verify size: Source = NULL:
> c:\windows\_000000_.cat
> 901.141: InstallCatalogFile: InstallCatalog failed for
> c:\windows\_000000_.cat; error=0x00000426.
> 901.141: InstallInfCatalogFile: Installation failed; error=0x00000002.
> 901.141: UdpStopService: ControlService failed :0x426
> 901.141: IsInfFileTrusted: ValidateSingleFileSignature Failed:
> STR_FAILED_INF_INTEGRITY
> 901.157: KB899591 Setup encountered an error: Setup could not verify the
> integrity of the file Update.inf. Make sure the Cryptographic service is
> running on this computer.
> 901.157: DeleteCatalogFile _000000_.cat failed with ERROR 1062
> 901.157: Setup could not verify the integrity of the file Update.inf. Make
> sure the Cryptographic service is running on this computer.
> 901.157: Update.exe extended error code = 0xf0da
>



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