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Reputation: 1605

Windows 2008 - The source was not found, but some or all event logs could not be searched

I've been dredging up an old classic ASP application and installing it on a windows 2008 server, but when it should throw an error, it seems to be throwing this error instead:

System

error '8013150a' 

The source was not found, but some or all event logs could not be searched. Inaccessible logs: Security.

So it seems to be throwing a further error as I don't have permission to write to the event viewer, so I can't see what the original error is! I've looked into a lot of answers on this, such as adding registry permissions on the EventLog and Applications folders within HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, but without success. I wonder if things are different for classic asp - has anyone come across this issue before that could help me sort this infuriating error out?

Thanks

EDIT - I have other .NET applications running on that server that write to the event viewer. It does seem to be confined to the classic asp applications

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2668

Answers (1)

goatshepard
goatshepard

Reputation: 1103

Your application is probably trying to write to an event source that doesn't exist. You can create an event source as follows: How to create Windows EventLog source from command line?.

Determine which event source your application is trying to write to and create it.

Upvotes: 1

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