The Distributed Transaction Coordinator service terminated with service-specific error 3221229584 (0xC0001010). – How to resolve this error?
If you experience Distributed Transaction Coordinator service is stopped and you are unable to start it from service console of your server, you need to review the system log for the actual error message.
One of the common error messages is as below:
The Distributed Transaction Coordinator service terminated with service-specific error 3221229584 (0xC0001010).
This actually tells that MS DTC service cannot access the %windir%\System32\Msdtc\Msdtc.log file. Hence follow below step to resolve this issue:
- Open command prompt of the server
- Enter following command in sequence:
- msdtc –resetlog
- net start msdtc
This is the easiest method as it will recreate the MS DTC log. However you may want to try another method where you will fix the account permission instead. For the other method or details on this, please visit to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916926
Note: This solution applies to Windows Server Systems (2003/2008/2008R2) and other OS as mentioned in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916926
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