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WSS3.0 no longer working after running "stsadm -o upgrade -inplace"

Hi all,
Whilst trying to sort out some 33002 errors by running "stsadm -o upgrade -inplace" I can no longer navigate to my sharepoint site. Nor can I get to the admin pages.
I noticed that it stopped various IIS and Exchange services after completing the command, but on restarting these, WSS3 will not work!
Companyweb, the built-in SBS sharepoint 2 app seems to still work fine, but I just get error 404 when I try to navigate to http://intranet, the normal URL of the WSS3 site.

Back to the command I ran, I copied and pasted it from somewhere but realised afterwards that it should have "-url http://....." on the end of it. What have I messed up by missing this switch?

I can still navigate to the DB in SQL Server Management Studio Express ok.

A new error I can see in the event log is "The database SharePoint_AdminContent_7978a1c6-e6eb-40b6-8314-0d74133a8611 on RTKSBS01\Microsoft##SSEE is not accessible to missing Windows Internal Database signatures." for all the sharepoint DBS.

Thanks in advance,
Jonny

Robbie_Leggett

Have you upgraded the companyweb site? What were you performing an inplace upgrade of?

:-)

jonnyIT

ASKER

I was not trying to upgrade the companyweb site, as that is a completely different version of Sharepoint (2 vs 3). I read somewhere that one of the errors I was seeing was a result of not all parts updating when a particular update was applied. I was under the impression that the stsadm command just finished the job and ensured that everything was all at the same level.
Having missed out a bit of the command though, I want to know what I've knocked out. I've got backups of the MDF and LDF files for all the DBs but the last site backup I made throught he WSS3 admin tools was over a month ago.
Cheers for the response.
Jonny

Robbie_Leggett

Try running the PSConfig wizard GUI and let me know what stage it fails on.

:-)

jonnyIT

ASKER

It stops after you are prompted if you want to allow it to stop the IIS services during installation. I've attached a screenshot and a text file containing the full error description.
Below is a snippet from it;

************** Exception Text **************
System.InvalidOperationException: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object.
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPContentDatabase.ValidateDatabaseSchemaCompatibility()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite.PreinitializeServer(SPRequest request)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.InitializeSPRequest()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.EnsureSPRequest()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.get_Request()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.InitWeb()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.get_WebTemplate()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPEvaluatorModeProvisioning.TryGetIsSiteProvisioned(String template, String relativePath, Nullable`1 port, SPSite& provisionedSite, SPWeb& provisionedWeb, Uri& provisionedUri)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.WelcomeForm.ShowNextFormForServerRoleSingleServer()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.WelcomeForm.PsconfigBaseFormNextButtonClickedEventHandler(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

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Robbie_Leggett

Run a repair of SharePoint and then reboot the server. Try it again and let me know what happens.

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jonnyIT

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Sorry, I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to Sharepoint. When you say 'repair', is that using the PSConfigui.exe tool, as if I continue after the error which pops up, and click 'Next', it goes straight the the previous question again and procedes in circles!

Robbie_Leggett

Try the last command first:

"psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait"

If this fails, use Add/Remove Programs and repair SharePoint.

:-)

jonnyIT

ASKER

Thank you so much! The "psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait" worked perfectly and everything's back up and working properly.
Can you explain what that command does please?

I only signed up today for the answer for this question, but I can see it's definitely worth continuing my subscription!
Regards,
Jonny

jonnyIT

ASKER

Thanks so much for your help.
Jonny

Robbie_Leggett

The command finishes off the upgrade sequence. I'm not sure what b2b stands for and have just done a search to try and find out. Didn't find anything really.

I'm glad that it worked for you though, and that you're so pleased. SharePoint is a wonderful product and i'm sure you're going to have some real fun with it.

Good luck.

:-)

WSS3.0 no longer working after running &quot;stsadm -o upgrade -inplace&quot;

WSS3.0 no longer working after running "stsadm -o upgrade -inplace"