account-identifier allocator failed to initialize properly

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Don Gillette

Well boys and girls being the one of the faithful I
attempted an upgrade of my W2K DC SP4 to W03K. The
upgrade appeared to work until I wanted to try and "use"
my disk array. W03K would not show the drives on the
mirrored set on an HPT370 IDE RAID controller, despite
the repeated claims of support. Just for fun the error
message in the log file was "failed to find the magic
number". I knew there was magic involved in programming
but the magic number?

So I faithfully tried to post this on the W03K Newsgroup
but big brother decided not to publish information
about "magic numbers". I then did a restore of my old
W2K domain DC (yes even geeks do backups).

After the restore everything is working fine, including
access to the IDE RAID except one small annoying message
that appears every three minutes in my event log:

"The account-identifier allocator failed to initialize
properly"

Full text is:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: SAM
Event Category: None
Event ID: 16650
Date: 10/8/2003
Time: 8:13:02 AM
User: N/A
Computer: ELLIE
Description:
The account-identifier allocator failed to initialize
properly. The record data contains the NT error code
that caused the failure. Windows 2000 will retry the
initialization until it succeeds; until that time,
account creation will be denied on this Domain
Controller. Please look for other SAM event logs that
may indicate the exact reason for the failure.
Data:
0000: a7 02 00 c0 §..À

The only hit in the KB is article is 248410, which has no
relation to this problem.

Given big brother allows this to be posted does anyone
have any hints, ideas, "magic numbers" or anything else
that may help.

Thanks in advance,

Don Gillette
MCSE,MCSD, MCDBA, MCT, CCI
(e-mail address removed)
 
Don,

How many DC's do you have in the domain? If you run dcdiag /v to a text
file, does the KnowsOfRoleHolders and RidManager test pass or fail? Can you
post them the dcdiag?

By default when you run a system state restore on a DC it will invalidate
the existing RID pool for that DC. This is to prevent duplicate RID's being
issued. Once the DC comes back up it can not initialize until a successful
replication takes place with at least one replication partner. If
replication can not take place with the RID Master, then it will not be able
to receive a new RID Pool.


--
Mark Ramey [MSFT]

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Well boys and girls being the one of the faithful I
attempted an upgrade of my W2K DC SP4 to W03K. The
upgrade appeared to work until I wanted to try and "use"
my disk array. W03K would not show the drives on the
mirrored set on an HPT370 IDE RAID controller, despite
the repeated claims of support. Just for fun the error
message in the log file was "failed to find the magic
number". I knew there was magic involved in programming
but the magic number?

So I faithfully tried to post this on the W03K Newsgroup
but big brother decided not to publish information
about "magic numbers". I then did a restore of my old
W2K domain DC (yes even geeks do backups).

After the restore everything is working fine, including
access to the IDE RAID except one small annoying message
that appears every three minutes in my event log:

"The account-identifier allocator failed to initialize
properly"

Full text is:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: SAM
Event Category: None
Event ID: 16650
Date: 10/8/2003
Time: 8:13:02 AM
User: N/A
Computer: ELLIE
Description:
The account-identifier allocator failed to initialize
properly. The record data contains the NT error code
that caused the failure. Windows 2000 will retry the
initialization until it succeeds; until that time,
account creation will be denied on this Domain
Controller. Please look for other SAM event logs that
may indicate the exact reason for the failure.
Data:
0000: a7 02 00 c0 §..À

The only hit in the KB is article is 248410, which has no
relation to this problem.

Given big brother allows this to be posted does anyone
have any hints, ideas, "magic numbers" or anything else
that may help.

Thanks in advance,

Don Gillette
MCSE,MCSD, MCDBA, MCT, CCI
(e-mail address removed)
 
OK, it failed the test, how do I force it to accept a new
RID pool without a replication partner???????????

Thanks in advance
 
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