Hi there! My name is Ivan Versluis. I am a Dutch IT Professional working for Almatis as Global IT Engineering Manager. When reviewing my Windows XP client eventlogs I encountered the following two error messages:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: ESENT
Event Category: (3)
Event ID: 453
Date: 2/11/2009
Time: 1:39:16 PM
User: N/A
Computer: IVAN-VM-01
Description: wuaueng.dll (3172) SUS20ClientDataStore: Database C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb requires logfiles 678-682 in order to recover successfully. Recovery could only locate logfiles up to 681.
Event Source: ESENT
Event Category: (3)
Event ID: 453
Date: 2/11/2009
Time: 1:39:16 PM
User: N/A
Computer: IVAN-VM-01
Description: wuaueng.dll (3172) SUS20ClientDataStore: Database C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb requires logfiles 678-682 in order to recover successfully. Recovery could only locate logfiles up to 681.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: ESENT
Event Category: (3)
Event ID: 454
Date: 2/11/2009
Time: VM1
User: N/A
Computer: IVAN-VM-01
Description: wuauclt (3460) Database recovery/restore failed with unexpected error -543.
Event Source: ESENT
Event Category: (3)
Event ID: 454
Date: 2/11/2009
Time: VM1
User: N/A
Computer: IVAN-VM-01
Description: wuauclt (3460) Database recovery/restore failed with unexpected error -543.
The client did not receive any Security Updates since those eventsstarted. For whatever reason the SoftwareDistribution database used by “Automatic Updates” service become corrupted. To fix this problem:
- Go to Services.msc and stop “Automatic Updates” service
- Go to C:\Windows and rename/delete folder C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\
- Start “Automatic Updates” service
Immediately after “Automatic Updates” service was started my client download the patches from the WSUS server.
Marti
at last point you mean start “automatic updates” service, right?
Ivan Versluis
Thanks Marti. Copy and paste typo
I hope the post helped you.