No results / Couldn't log on as the ASPNET user

Brian Donahue

Hi Martin,

I appreciate your post to the newsgroup. Usually, ANTS Profiler will
throw this error when you are logged in as the same user that is running the
aspnet_wp process. The reason why Profiler won't let you do this is because
in the case of Microsoft .Net 1.1, profiling has to be enabled on a
per-user, as opposed to a per-process, basis. This would mean that
everything on you computer would run dead-slow, and more importantly, the
results from the profiling session would be severely compromised.

Regards,

Brian Donahue
Red Gate Technical Support

"Martin Davis" <martin@sequence.co.uk> wrote in message
news:CUp2boMlDHA.1488@server53...
> Hi,
>
> I'm having problems running ANTS Profiler (Version 1.22 Build 137,
> Registered) against an ASP.NET (C#) web application and am hoping someone
> can help.
> I've tried running ANTS on both my local machine and also on the webserver
> and have had no luck on either.
>
> When run on my local machine (website being tested is hosted on another
> machine) the profiler goes through the motions of stopping/starting IIS
and
> profiling the app. then returns to show a completely blank results page:
No
> top level functions, no timings, no code.... nothing.
>
> I figured that as ANTS was trying to interact with IIS that it probably
> needs to be installed/run on the server... so I did. This time however,
> when I tried to start profiling my app. ANTS begins stopping IIS then
stops
> and displays the error
>
> "There was a problem starting the profiler. Check that the ANTS Profiler
> service and IIS are running. Couldn't log on as the ASPNET user [1385].
> Please check the event log for more details."
>
> Looking in the event log shows the following:
>
> "System.Exception: Couldn't log on as the ASPNET user [1385]
> Server stack trace:
> at RedGate.Profiler.Engine.ServiceHelper.?(String )
> at RedGate.Profiler.Engine.ServiceHelper.StartProfilingIIS(String
> currentUserName)
> at
>
System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.PrivateProcessMessage(Met
> hodBase mb, Object[] args, Object server, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean
> fExecuteInContext, Object[]& outArgs)
> at
>
System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.SyncProcessMessage(IMessa
> ge msg, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext)
> Exception rethrown at [0]:
> at RedGate.Profiler.Engine.ProfilingSession.StartProfiler()
> at
>
System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.PrivateProcessMessage(Met
> hodBase mb, Object[] args, Object server, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean
> fExecuteInContext, Object[]& outArgs)
> at
>
System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.AsyncProcessMessage(IMess
> age msg, IMessageSink replySink)
> Exception rethrown at [1]:
> at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.EndInvokeHelper(Message
reqMsg,
> Boolean bProxyCase)
> at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RemotingProxy.Invoke(Object NotUsed,
> MessageData& msgData)
> at RedGate.Profiler.UI.?.EndInvoke(IAsyncResult result)
> at RedGate.Profiler.UI.frmMain.?(IAsyncResult ) "
>
> Checking the "services" applet in control panel reveals that the "Web
> Publishing Service" is no longer running, but is was before running ANTS.
>
> Can you help? The server is running Windows 2000, IIS5 and .NET Framework
> v1.1.4322.
>
>

Brian Donahue

Hello Reinhold,

I've noticed that a certain version of Microsoft .Net Framework causes
problems for ANTS Profiler. 1.1.4322.510, which I believe shipped with
Windows Server 2003, causes numerous problems with the Profiler as well as
some of our other products.

If you open your %WINDIR%Assembly folder, right-click on mscorcfg.dll
and check the version, it should be 1.1.4322.573. If it's not, I'd download
the .Net Framework redistributable again and try re-installing that version
of the framework. You can get this from our website at
http://www.red-gate.com/downloads.htm.

Thanks,

Brian Donahue
Red Gate Technical Support

"Reinhold Staudinger" <rstaudinger@remember.com> wrote in message
news:4XyjA0LoDHA.1228@server53...
> Hi,
>
> is there anything else that can cause this error? I am getting the same
> error, but the user that I am logged on is different than the one set for
> the processModel in machine.config. I have the same configuration as
> Martin.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Reinhold Staudinger
>
> "Brian Donahue (Red Gate)" <brian.donahue@red-gate.com> wrote in message
> news:ErUZYINlDHA.1488@server53...
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> > I appreciate your post to the newsgroup. Usually, ANTS Profiler will
> > throw this error when you are logged in as the same user that is running
> the
> > aspnet_wp process. The reason why Profiler won't let you do this is
> because
> > in the case of Microsoft .Net 1.1, profiling has to be enabled on a
> > per-user, as opposed to a per-process, basis. This would mean that
> > everything on you computer would run dead-slow, and more importantly,
the
> > results from the profiling session would be severely compromised.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Brian Donahue
> > Red Gate Technical Support
> >
> > "Martin Davis" <martin@sequence.co.uk> wrote in message
> > news:CUp2boMlDHA.1488@server53...
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm having problems running ANTS Profiler (Version 1.22 Build 137,
> > > Registered) against an ASP.NET (C#) web application and am hoping
> someone
> > > can help.
> > > I've tried running ANTS on both my local machine and also on the
> webserver
> > > and have had no luck on either.
> > >
> > > When run on my local machine (website being tested is hosted on
another
> > > machine) the profiler goes through the motions of stopping/starting
IIS
> > and
> > > profiling the app. then returns to show a completely blank results
page:
> > No
> > > top level functions, no timings, no code.... nothing.
> > >
> > > I figured that as ANTS was trying to interact with IIS that it
probably
> > > needs to be installed/run on the server... so I did. This time
> however,
> > > when I tried to start profiling my app. ANTS begins stopping IIS then
> > stops
> > > and displays the error
> > >
> > > "There was a problem starting the profiler. Check that the ANTS
Profiler
> > > service and IIS are running. Couldn't log on as the ASPNET user
[1385].
> > > Please check the event log for more details."
> > >
> > > Looking in the event log shows the following:
> > >
> > > "System.Exception: Couldn't log on as the ASPNET user [1385]
> > > Server stack trace:
> > > at RedGate.Profiler.Engine.ServiceHelper.?(String )
> > > at RedGate.Profiler.Engine.ServiceHelper.StartProfilingIIS(String
> > > currentUserName)
> > > at
> > >
> >
>
System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.PrivateProcessMessage(Met
> > > hodBase mb, Object[] args, Object server, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean
> > > fExecuteInContext, Object[]& outArgs)
> > > at
> > >
> >
>
System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.SyncProcessMessage(IMessa
> > > ge msg, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext)
> > > Exception rethrown at [0]:
> > > at RedGate.Profiler.Engine.ProfilingSession.StartProfiler()
> > > at
> > >
> >
>
System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.PrivateProcessMessage(Met
> > > hodBase mb, Object[] args, Object server, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean
> > > fExecuteInContext, Object[]& outArgs)
> > > at
> > >
> >
>
System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.AsyncProcessMessage(IMess
> > > age msg, IMessageSink replySink)
> > > Exception rethrown at [1]:
> > > at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.EndInvokeHelper(Message
> > reqMsg,
> > > Boolean bProxyCase)
> > > at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RemotingProxy.Invoke(Object
NotUsed,
> > > MessageData& msgData)
> > > at RedGate.Profiler.UI.?.EndInvoke(IAsyncResult result)
> > > at RedGate.Profiler.UI.frmMain.?(IAsyncResult ) "
> > >
> > > Checking the "services" applet in control panel reveals that the "Web
> > > Publishing Service" is no longer running, but is was before running
> ANTS.
> > >
> > > Can you help? The server is running Windows 2000, IIS5 and .NET
> Framework
> > > v1.1.4322.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>