Foundation 6.0/ Windows 2003 Startup Error

Question

I am receving the same error that I've seen reported by others on this message board (openkernelsearchimpl). Unfortunately, changing the Default Auth Pool to run with the Local System Account did not fix the problem for me. I've also included diagnostic.bat. Has anyone seen this/know how to resolve it?
Thanks!
Amy
Server Error in '/portal' Application. <HR noShadeIZE=1>
Configuration ErrorDescription: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately. Parser Error Message: File or assembly name openkernelsearchimpl, or one of its dependencies, was not found.Source Error:
Line 256:                <add assembly="System.EnterpriseServices, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"/>
Line 257:                <add assembly="System.Web.Mobile, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"/>
Line 258:                <add assembly="*"/>
Line 259:            </assemblies>
Line 260:
Source File: c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322\Config\machine.config[b] Line: 258 Assembly Load Trace:The following information can be helpful to determine why the assembly 'openkernelsearchimpl' could not be loaded.
=== Pre-bind state information ===
LOG: DisplayName = openkernelsearchimpl
(Partial)
LOG: Appbase = file:///D:/Program Files/plumtree/ptportal/6.0/webapp/portal/web
LOG: Initial PrivatePath = bin
Calling assembly : (Unknown).
===
LOG: Policy not being applied to reference at this time (private, custom, partial, or location-based assembly bind).
LOG: Post-policy reference: openkernelsearchimpl
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v1.1.4322/Temporary ASP.NET Files/portal/25f1a5f1/e4f6af3a/openkernelsearchimpl.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v1.1.4322/Temporary ASP.NET Files/portal/25f1a5f1/e4f6af3a/openkernelsearchimpl/openkernelsearchimpl.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///D:/Program Files/plumtree/ptportal/6.0/webapp/portal/web/bin/openkernelsearchimpl.DLL.
LOG: Policy not being applied to reference at this time (private, custom, partial, or location-based assembly bind).
LOG: Post-policy reference: openkernelsearchimpl, Version=3.6.0.0, Culture
Diagnostic.bat
D:\PROGRA~1\plumtree\ptportal\6.0\bin>diagnostic.bat administrator PPCadminPORTAL_HOME=D:\Progra~1\plumtree\ptportal\6.0Expected PORTAL_HOME=D:\PROGRA~1\plumtree\ptportal\6.0OpenLog: verbosity level = 2 Diagnostic system initialization OK. Portal Startup begins: 15 total tasks.OpenLog: Registered application name: ConfigInitializationOpenLog: Registered application name: portal.sles2.administrator (local machineonly) FATAL: Task #1 (InitPortalObjects) step 4 failed to complete. TDE: Portal or Search native libraries are not on your PATH. Normally, theinstaller sets up your PATH correctly. Please verify all native libraries have been installed and that your system PATH correctly points to them. The installersets up the following environment variables, and then uses them on your PATH: PORTALLIB_PATH; PTHREADS_PATH; OUTSIDEIN_PATH; INXIGHT_PATH; ICU_PATH. Please manually tune and verify each entry on your PATH and run again.
PortalObjectsFactory Initialization Failure (.NET) RECOMMENDATION: Review the exception listed below for more details. Since OpenKernel initialized correctly, this usually means that the portal database is not scripted or properly configured, or there is an installation problem related to .NET assemblies. This may mean the search libraries are not on your path. Try running ptverify.Task 'InitPortalObjects' Failed on Startup Task #1 (InitPortalObjects) Step #4--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
error: PortalObjectsFactory Initialization Failure (.NET)platform: Windows (.NET)failure: FATAL: PortalObjectsFactory Initialization Failure (.NET)recommendation: RECOMMENDATION: Review the exception listed below for more details. Since OpenKernel initialized correctly, this usually means that the portal database is not scripted or properly configured, or there is an installation problem related to .NET assemblies. This may mean the search libraries are not on your path. Try running ptverify.exception: XPFileNotFoundException TDE: Portal or Search native libraries are not on your PATH. Normally, the installer sets up your PATH correctly. Please verify all native libraries have been installed and that your system PATH correctly points to them. The installer sets up the following environment variables, and then uses them on your PATH: PORTALLIB_PATH; PTHREADS_PATH; OUTSIDEIN_PATH; INXIGHT_PATH; ICU_PATH. Please manually tune and verify each entry on your PATH and run again.
message: File or assembly name openkernelsearchimpl, or one of its dependencies, was not found.secondary exception: at com.plumtree.uiinfrastructure.application.startup.InitPortalObjects.InitPortalObjectsStep() in e:\buildroot\Release\uiinfrastructure\6.0.x\dotnet\prod\src\com\plumtree\uiinfrastructure\application\startup\InitPortalObjects.cs:line 312--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FAILED TO INITIALIZE SYSTEM. YOU CANNOT PROGRESS BEYOND THIS POINT. ======= Diagnostic Run Complete ======= Startup completion percentage: 10% (5 steps out of 50 complete) Diagnostic Test execution complete.Press <enter> key to exit.

Answer 1

I was running Oracle on the same box as the portal (developer machine for testing). My solution (after talking to MSDN support) was to give the network service read and execute permission on the D:\Oracle\Ora10\bin folder and that resolved the issue.
I couldn't upload my documennt so here is the text without the images. Email me at [email protected] the word document I put together.
IIS_wpg (IIS Worker Process Group):This group contains the anonymous user, network service account and several other machine accounts. You can put this account on any folders that contain .dll's that your application references to grant acces to these .dlls to the application. Just the default of Read / Execute are needed.
ASPNet Account: This user is not used in IIS 6.0. You can ignore it for the most part. The only time it comes into play is if you run IIS 6 in isolation mode (IIS 5.0). If run in isolation mode then the ASPNet user acts like it did in IIS 5.0 and Application Pools in IIS 6.0 are ignored.
IIS 6.0 used the w3wp.exeworker process
IIS 5.0 or IIS 6.0 running in isolation mode uses the aspnet_wp.exe
Application Pool Identity Tab:
Network Service
a. Most restrictive
b. Run as the NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE user
Local Service
a. Rarely ever used in practice.
b. Run as NT AUTHORITY\SERVICE
Local System
a. Least Restrictive. SYSTEM is slapped on pretty much every folder in the OS with at least Read / Execute rights.
b. Runs as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
NOTE: These users don't appear with the NT AUTHORITY\when looking at Properties of files and folders. LOCAL SERVICE = SERVICE = NT AUTHORITY\SERVICE
Troubleshooting Errors
1. Use FileMon from www.sysinternals.com
2. In our example below we are receiving errors because the NETWORK SERVICE account does not have access to the Oracle files listed
3. This was causing this error when accessing http://localhost/portal/server.pt:
4. The error that .net was throwing on the application page didn't reflect the real error that was occurring. By using FileMon, saving the logfile to text and then searching with notepad for Access Denied"we were able to pinpoint the permissions issue. Can also open the FileMon log file you saved into Excel for some nicer sorting features.
5. D:\oracle\ora10\BINadded NETWORK SERVICE and accept default rights. Could have put IIS_WGP group on instead of NETWORK SERVICE but since DefaultAppPool is running as NETWORK SERVICE the other groups didn't need access. This fixed the error message above!!!!
6.