DNN site stop working - asp.net

I have a dnn installation with 3 portals. Everything was fine for couple months.
Sites stopped working completely and all I have is 2 error messages in the logs.
[Thread:61][ERROR] DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.Exceptions - System.Threading.ThreadAbortException: Thread was being aborted.
at System.Threading.Thread.SleepInternal(Int32 millisecondsTimeout)
at System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(TimeSpan timeout)
at DotNetNuke.Services.Scheduling.Scheduler.CoreScheduler.RunEventSchedule(EventName eventName)
[Thread:61][FATAL] DotNetNuke.Web.Common.Internal.DotNetNukeHttpApplication - System.Web.HttpException (0x80004005): Request timed out.
So the error messages dont mean anything. Any ideas?

DotNetNuke.Services.Scheduling.Scheduler
This was the clue for me, I disabled all the scheduled task from database and site start working again. One of the task were taking so long and causing timeout.
I hope this helps someone in the future.

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IIS is hanging and needs to be recycled every time?

We've one IIS application server on which we have deployed ASP.NET application.
Now the issue is Server is hanging very frequently and every time we are recycling or restarting application pool. Could you please help me to fix it.
What I've tried:
1) Looked into IIS log and found that there are few requests throwing 500 error some time. All the time except few instances same requests are working fine and getting 200 status.
2) Few resources are taking longer time like
a) "Report.aspx" - State- SendResponse - Time Elapsed- 2-3 minutes
I checked the query and found that sp is returning data in 00:00:02.
b) "NewReport.aspx" - State- ExecuteRequestHandler- Time Elapsed- 1 minutes
I checked the query and found that sp is returning data too quickly.
3) Default recycle time is 29 hrs, and each application is using individual pool.
4) In code application connection has been opened and not closed at very few places.
5) We are using connection pooling, having 2 different connection string with Max Pool=500 and min Pool=50 each.
6) Most of the time there is no error in Event Viewer, some time have received TCP/IP error.
What I am looking for:
1) Do I need to make any changes in IIS to track down or please help if any changes required in IIS?
2) Is there any setting in SQL Server which can help me to find out or fix it?
3) Please help if anything else I've to do to fix this issue from your previous experiences.
I think you should capture a hang dump for W3WP.exe with Procdump or debug diagnostic tool first. We need to check all managed stack trace via WINDBG, sos.dll and mex extension. So that we can figure out worker thread is pending on which method and which module. Then might tell us about how to fix this hang issue. If you could find a way to always reproduce this problem. The problem would become much easier.
This link is about how to capture hang dump.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/asiatech/2014/01/09/debug-diagnostic-2-0-generate-a-manual-hang-dump-for-all-processes-owned-by-iis/
If you don't know how to analyze dump file manually, debug diagnostic analysis tool could help you achieve this.

Windows workflow suspends intermittently with error in DurableInstancing.InstancesTable

I am facing this error since some time, it is very intermittent in nature so, unable to understand why this error and what needs t be done t fix this.
Issue:
We have a workflow 4.5 WCF service. Everything goes well, but intermittently we see suddenly that a workflow instance gets suspended with an error in the table "DurableInstancing.InstancesTable"
The error is "Keyword Not supported: 'DB Name,1433';Initial Catalog'.
Since most times this ust workd fine without any error, I do not think this problem is related to web.config entry for connectionstring. Most times the workflow completes without any error. We have verified multiple times that the connection string is proper and there is no issue with parsing the connection string.
I suspect this issue is happening while Workflow instance is being recreated from persistence storage, and because some reason it is unable to recreate , the workflow is getting suspended with this error in DB.
I really appreciate any help in getting us through this error.
Thanks,
GD
What we found was it was an issue with permission in Database. We gave "dbo" user permission to the workflow database, and after that we have not seen this problem occur again. Has the error or exception that gets logged in the table is mre informative then it would have been better.
Thanks,
GD

Random w3wp.exe crashes in .net 4

I have a website which has been up and running absolutely fine for about 8 months now. It's running .net 4 intergrated mode.
Recently i've started to get some "random" w3wp.exe crashes, and after 5 of them, IIS rapid fail protection kicks in and I have to manually login to the server and start the application pool again.
Here's what the event viewer says for the Error:
Faulting application name: w3wp.exe, version: 7.5.7601.17514, time stamp: 0x4ce7afa2
Faulting module name: nlssorting.dll, version: 4.0.30319.296, time stamp: 0x504835c7
Exception code: 0xc00000fd
Fault offset: 0x000000000000191f
Faulting process id: 0x1998
Faulting application start time: 0x01ce6e6b9b80c949
Faulting application path: c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\nlssorting.dll
Report Id: d9cf3164-da5e-11e2-8cc5-f46d0440f6d5
Straight after the crashes, i get an "Information" log in the event viewer which at the bottom gives me the location of a .wer file.
This is what the .wer files contains:
Version=1
EventType=APPCRASH
EventTime=130162847687759734
ReportType=2
Consent=1
ReportIdentifier=d7c5e520-da5e-11e2-8cc5-f46d0440f6d5
IntegratorReportIdentifier=d7c5e51f-da5e-11e2-8cc5-f46d0440f6d5
Response.type=4
Sig[0].Name=Application Name
Sig[0].Value=w3wp.exe
Sig[1].Name=Application Version
Sig[1].Value=7.5.7601.17514
Sig[2].Name=Application Timestamp
Sig[2].Value=4ce7afa2
Sig[3].Name=Fault Module Name
Sig[3].Value=nlssorting.dll
Sig[4].Name=Fault Module Version
Sig[4].Value=4.0.30319.296
Sig[5].Name=Fault Module Timestamp
Sig[5].Value=504835c7
Sig[6].Name=Exception Code
Sig[6].Value=c00000fd
Sig[7].Name=Exception Offset
Sig[7].Value=000000000000197d
DynamicSig[1].Name=OS Version
DynamicSig[1].Value=6.1.7601.2.1.0.1296.17
DynamicSig[2].Name=Locale ID
DynamicSig[2].Value=2057
DynamicSig[22].Name=Additional Information 1
DynamicSig[22].Value=6141
DynamicSig[23].Name=Additional Information 2
DynamicSig[23].Value=61419d6dee6cf74b8ac2b00b4c3b3373
DynamicSig[24].Name=Additional Information 3
DynamicSig[24].Value=c19b
DynamicSig[25].Name=Additional Information 4
DynamicSig[25].Value=c19b8acf029a3088171b1f5f3dd9dc77
UI[2]=c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe
UI[5]=Check online for a solution (recommended)
UI[6]=Check for a solution later (recommended)
UI[7]=Close
UI[8]=IIS Worker Process stopped working and was closed
UI[9]=A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will notify you if a solution is available.
UI[10]=&Close
LoadedModule[0]=c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe
LoadedModule[1]=C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
LoadedModule[2]=C:\Windows\system32\kernel32.dll
LoadedModule[3]=C:\Windows\system32\KERNELBASE.dll
LoadedModule[4]=C:\Windows\system32\ADVAPI32.dll
LoadedModule[5]=C:\Windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
LoadedModule[6]=C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\sechost.dll
LoadedModule[7]=C:\Windows\system32\RPCRT4.dll
LoadedModule[8]=C:\Windows\system32\pcwum.DLL
LoadedModule[9]=C:\Windows\system32\USER32.dll
LoadedModule[10]=C:\Windows\system32\GDI32.dll
LoadedModule[11]=C:\Windows\system32\LPK.dll
LoadedModule[12]=C:\Windows\system32\USP10.dll
LoadedModule[13]=C:\Windows\system32\ole32.dll
LoadedModule[14]=c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\IISUTIL.dll
LoadedModule[15]=C:\Windows\system32\IMM32.DLL
LoadedModule[16]=C:\Windows\system32\MSCTF.dll
LoadedModule[17]=C:\Windows\system32\CRYPTBASE.dll
LoadedModule[18]=C:\Windows\system32\ntmarta.dll
LoadedModule[19]=C:\Windows\system32\WLDAP32.dll
LoadedModule[20]=c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3wphost.dll
LoadedModule[21]=C:\Windows\system32\OLEAUT32.dll
LoadedModule[22]=c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\nativerd.dll
LoadedModule[23]=C:\Windows\system32\CRYPT32.dll
LoadedModule[24]=C:\Windows\system32\MSASN1.dll
LoadedModule[25]=C:\Windows\system32\XmlLite.dll
LoadedModule[26]=C:\Windows\system32\ktmw32.dll
LoadedModule[27]=c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\IISRES.DLL
LoadedModule[28]=C:\Windows\system32\CRYPTSP.dll
LoadedModule[29]=C:\Windows\system32\rsaenh.dll
LoadedModule[30]=C:\Windows\system32\mscoree.dll
LoadedModule[31]=C:\Windows\system32\CLBCatQ.DLL
LoadedModule[32]=C:\Windows\system32\mlang.dll
LoadedModule[33]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\webengine4.dll
LoadedModule[34]=C:\Windows\system32\MSVCR100_CLR0400.dll
LoadedModule[35]=C:\Windows\system32\USERENV.dll
LoadedModule[36]=C:\Windows\system32\profapi.dll
LoadedModule[37]=C:\Windows\system32\PSAPI.DLL
LoadedModule[38]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\mscoreei.dll
LoadedModule[39]=C:\Windows\system32\SHLWAPI.dll
LoadedModule[40]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\clr.dll
LoadedModule[41]=C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\iiscore.dll
LoadedModule[42]=c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\W3TP.dll
LoadedModule[43]=c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3dt.dll
LoadedModule[44]=C:\Windows\system32\HTTPAPI.dll
LoadedModule[45]=C:\Windows\system32\slc.dll
LoadedModule[46]=C:\Windows\system32\WS2_32.dll
LoadedModule[47]=C:\Windows\system32\NSI.dll
LoadedModule[48]=C:\Windows\system32\Normaliz.dll
LoadedModule[49]=C:\Windows\system32\faultrep.dll
LoadedModule[50]=C:\Windows\system32\Secur32.dll
LoadedModule[51]=C:\Windows\system32\SSPICLI.DLL
LoadedModule[52]=C:\Windows\system32\NLAapi.dll
LoadedModule[53]=C:\Windows\system32\napinsp.dll
LoadedModule[54]=C:\Windows\System32\mswsock.dll
LoadedModule[55]=C:\Windows\system32\DNSAPI.dll
LoadedModule[56]=C:\Windows\System32\winrnr.dll
LoadedModule[57]=C:\Windows\System32\wshtcpip.dll
LoadedModule[58]=C:\Windows\System32\wship6.dll
LoadedModule[59]=C:\Windows\system32\IPHLPAPI.DLL
LoadedModule[60]=C:\Windows\system32\WINNSI.DLL
LoadedModule[61]=C:\Windows\system32\rasadhlp.dll
LoadedModule[62]=C:\Windows\System32\fwpuclnt.dll
LoadedModule[63]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\cachuri.dll
LoadedModule[64]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\cachfile.dll
LoadedModule[65]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\cachtokn.dll
LoadedModule[66]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\cachhttp.dll
LoadedModule[67]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\compdyn.dll
LoadedModule[68]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\compstat.dll
LoadedModule[69]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\defdoc.dll
LoadedModule[70]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\protsup.dll
LoadedModule[71]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\redirect.dll
LoadedModule[72]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\static.dll
LoadedModule[73]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\authanon.dll
LoadedModule[74]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\authbas.dll
LoadedModule[75]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\authsspi.dll
LoadedModule[76]=C:\Windows\system32\NETAPI32.dll
LoadedModule[77]=C:\Windows\system32\netutils.dll
LoadedModule[78]=C:\Windows\system32\srvcli.dll
LoadedModule[79]=C:\Windows\system32\wkscli.dll
LoadedModule[80]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\iprestr.dll
LoadedModule[81]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\modrqflt.dll
LoadedModule[82]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\logcust.dll
LoadedModule[83]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\custerr.dll
LoadedModule[84]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\loghttp.dll
LoadedModule[85]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\isapi.dll
LoadedModule[86]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\filter.dll
LoadedModule[87]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\validcfg.dll
LoadedModule[88]=c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_filter.dll
LoadedModule[89]=C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\wbhst_pm.dll
LoadedModule[90]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\webengine.dll
LoadedModule[91]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\mscorlib\4f52500ab48877b85e71430f4f46670f\mscorlib.ni.dll
LoadedModule[92]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\nlssorting.dll
LoadedModule[93]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System\a91f32875cb3ba779f1b3ceff1690251\System.ni.dll
LoadedModule[94]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Core\0a8d99339ffe6b25debb8f8201c27664\System.Core.ni.dll
LoadedModule[95]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Web\5b905bd7b71f9fd6bea2d05cc1ae85f8\System.Web.ni.dll
LoadedModule[96]=C:\Windows\system32\sxs.dll
LoadedModule[97]=C:\Windows\system32\RpcRtRemote.dll
LoadedModule[98]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Configuration\fa65f89fd682c459fc5e7bcbd0418317\System.Configuration.ni.dll
LoadedModule[99]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Xml\f4afb233f160b8e55aad4660e45b374c\System.Xml.ni.dll
LoadedModule[100]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\clrjit.dll
LoadedModule[101]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\Microsoft.Build.Uti#\14e16d61fae3cd1d9a1fa79b789f8438\Microsoft.Build.Utilities.v4.0.ni.dll
LoadedModule[102]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Runtime.Cach#\8fdbe304abab0631b8a4310b35f3d93a\System.Runtime.Caching.ni.dll
LoadedModule[103]=C:\Windows\system32\shfolder.dll
LoadedModule[104]=C:\Windows\system32\SHELL32.dll
LoadedModule[105]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\Microsoft.JScript\85204dde340780329b569b025e249c23\Microsoft.JScript.ni.dll
LoadedModule[106]=C:\Windows\system32\version.dll
LoadedModule[107]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\587f6661\a99d8ff8\App_Code.cgixlnxh.dll
LoadedModule[108]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Data.Linq\feaa494ad67542d2060b31b9eeb6458b\System.Data.Linq.ni.dll
LoadedModule[109]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Data\b928128fca867546a858a1a39240d85c\System.Data.ni.dll
LoadedModule[110]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_64\System.Data\v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.Data.dll
LoadedModule[111]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\587f6661\a99d8ff8\assembly\dl3\595a888a\f26c0653_7f81cd01\HtmlAgilityPack.dll
LoadedModule[112]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Drawing\5ae853f556290da9399b15b3619f7e15\System.Drawing.ni.dll
LoadedModule[113]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\587f6661\a99d8ff8\assembly\dl3\85ba5013\f0c8f388_706bce01\TweetSharp.dll
LoadedModule[114]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Web.Extensio#\0180a2d993d2a9699cf07f7163524fff\System.Web.Extensions.ni.dll
LoadedModule[115]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Transactions\7b2099a1386e38ff198a51939304ce6e\System.Transactions.ni.dll
LoadedModule[116]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_64\System.Transactions\v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.Transactions.dll
LoadedModule[117]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\587f6661\a99d8ff8\App_global.asax.yxdky-qn.dll
LoadedModule[118]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.ServiceModel#\7a5a5ff4a0b3bb4ba4bcc13166918e36\System.ServiceModel.Activation.ni.dll
LoadedModule[119]=C:\Windows\system32\bcrypt.dll
LoadedModule[120]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Runtime.Dura#\799274e49455d0fe4ca563f42143bef2\System.Runtime.DurableInstancing.ni.dll
LoadedModule[121]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Numerics\a66416296451fe6d2d8a5506ca41b23d\System.Numerics.ni.dll
LoadedModule[122]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.ServiceModel\15834d73d2846fc01ed54488ccfff5c8\System.ServiceModel.ni.dll
LoadedModule[123]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\SMDiagnostics\31f93b6be386908ff2727bcd825de0ca\SMDiagnostics.ni.dll
LoadedModule[124]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Xaml.Hosting\cf8401f4952deb5303e0d7fd459ce530\System.Xaml.Hosting.ni.dll
LoadedModule[125]=C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\gzip.dll
LoadedModule[126]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\587f6661\a99d8ff8\assembly\dl3\3d63b311\fe7c9b8a_706bce01\Hammock.ClientProfile.dll
LoadedModule[127]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\587f6661\a99d8ff8\assembly\dl3\6a128bd2\c184e08a_706bce01\Newtonsoft.Json.dll
LoadedModule[128]=C:\Windows\system32\rasapi32.dll
LoadedModule[129]=C:\Windows\system32\rasman.dll
LoadedModule[130]=C:\Windows\system32\rtutils.dll
LoadedModule[131]=C:\Windows\system32\winhttp.dll
LoadedModule[132]=C:\Windows\system32\webio.dll
LoadedModule[133]=C:\Windows\system32\credssp.dll
LoadedModule[134]=C:\Windows\system32\dhcpcsvc6.DLL
LoadedModule[135]=C:\Windows\system32\dhcpcsvc.DLL
LoadedModule[136]=C:\Windows\system32\security.dll
LoadedModule[137]=C:\Windows\system32\schannel.DLL
LoadedModule[138]=C:\Windows\system32\ncrypt.dll
LoadedModule[139]=C:\Windows\system32\bcryptprimitives.dll
LoadedModule[140]=C:\Windows\system32\GPAPI.dll
FriendlyEventName=Stopped working
ConsentKey=APPCRASH
AppName=IIS Worker Process
AppPath=c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe
That nlssorting.dll seems to crop up a lot but I can't seem to find anything online related. The only thing I can find which matches my error is here, but that doesn't really help me.
I'm completely stumped as to where to go from here to fix this. Here's what I've tried:
Loading up IIS log files and trying every request from about 30 minutes before a crash, and none of the pages cause any errors.
Searching my code for any recursion which might cause a stackoverflow, but there isn't any
trawling online for ANYTHING that might help
Has anyone else ever had any problems with nlssorting.dll ? Can i get some more information from the .wer file that might help me pin point where this is happening?
Thanks in advance for any help!
UPDATE
I was using a 3rd party DLL, which was causing a stack overflow exception (0xc00000fd)
After more investigation, it was only happening after a certain chain of events happened - hence the "random" in the title. Removing the DLL fixed the problem.
We had the same problem with one of our sites. Using SVN we tracked it down to a method that was scaning for images within a folder.
I modified the code as follows:
Checking array length of scan results to be > 0 instead of == 1
Adding CultureInfo.InvariantCulture to all Int32.ToString() calls
After this we no longer experienced the error. The exact reason is still unknown.
I believe that none of the above points should make a difference in our environment. I believe that the problem could have been, people modifying image files and folders while the image scanning method was called.
I hope this helps somebody.
For anyone who's curious, this is a PITA to debug. Here are three reasons rumored for this to happen:
(1) Stack overflows, as in the original post.
(2) Too much CPU / memory usage, which becomes obvious and rapid fail protection closes the process.
(3) Unable to respond to pings / requests due to application hogging resources, but in a way that rapid fail protection deems appropriate to end the process, not explicitly because of either (1) or (2).
Our solution was to add manual log tracing in the production environment until we eventually found recursion which was leading the application to be stopped by reliability services (for inability to respond to pings, or process randomly crashing) rather than throwing an in-application exception.
I had the issue where w3p would throw an unhandled error as soon I spun up the site\api URI from the web browser, then it would crash.
I was able to pinpoint what part of my code was causing it in my case it was in the Owin Startup class and I was reading some configuration records from a database but prior to that it gets the connection string from a configuration file outside of the web app directory.
I checked the ownership of the folder it showed my account but apparently the subfolders were not owned by me so I set ownership to me again, clicked OK to allow permissions to traverse the objects and voila bye bye w3p error and the API loaded.
So in my case it was an access denied error on the folder \ file that contained the connection string.

Error when running TcmReindex.exe

I am currently trying to get search working in my Tridion 2011 installation. I read in another article that I should run the TcmReIndex.exe tool in the Tridion/bin folder to re-index all my sites. So I tried this and it failed with a message box giving the following details
Unable to get list of Publication items.
Unable to Intialize TDSE object.
The wait operation timed out
Connection Timeout Expired. The timeout period elapsed while attempting to consume the pre-login handshake acknowledgement. This could be because the pre-login handshake failed or the server was unable to respond back in time. The duration spent while attempting to connect to this server was - [Pre-Login] initialization=21054; handshake=35;
The wait operation timed out
A database error occurred while executing Stored Procedure "EDA_TRUSTEES_GETTRUSTEEETOKEN"
I have four fairly large publications (100 000+ items in total) which I am trying to index.
Any ideas?
Whenever I get "Unable to Intialize TDSE object." errors, I typically write a small test script using VBScript, and try running it on the CMS server. Whilst this does not directly solve the problem, it often gives some insight into the issue by logging information in the event viewer. Try creating a test.vbs file as follows and running it:
Set tdse = CreateObject("TDS.TDSE")
tdse.initialize()
msgbox(tdse.User.Description)
Set tdse = Nothing
If it throws any errors, please let me know, and it may help us solve the problem. If it gives you a popup with your user description, then I am completely barking up the wrong tree.
I haven't come to anything conclusive but it seems like my issue may have been a temporary one as it just started working. I did increase all timeouts in Tridion MMC > Timeout Settings by 100 times their amounts but I suspect that this wasn't the issue, when it works the connection is almost instant.
If anyone else has this issue
Restart the computer the content manager is installed on, try again.
Wait an hour or two, try again.
Increase timeouts, try again.
I've run the process a few more times and it seems to be working correctly.

PaypalSandbox error

I am working on php . I submit my transaction to paypalsandbox
but transaction is not completed and gives error
An error occurred while processing your request. Before submitting this again, log in and check your Account History to ensure that the transaction didn't complete.
If any one know the solution please help me.
Thanks
I'm having this in testing too. It was working about 9 hours ago, and as I'm testing from 3 different servers with two different configs, it may be that it's a PayPal issue rather than a user error.
Later:
Found this which suggest it happens from time to time. I'm seeing this error now, rather than the one reported previously.
https://www.x.com/content/resolved-intermittent-errors-during-checkout-sep-21

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