IIS services fail to start: "Windows could not start the Windows Process Activation Service - Error 6801: Transaction support within the specified resource manager is not started or was shut down due to an error" when WAS service is started

You may see that IIS related services fail to start and receive "Windows could not start the Windows Process Activation Service - Error 6801: Transaction support within the specified resource manager is not started or was shut down due to an error" error message when you try to start the WAS (Windows Process Activation Service) service. This issue may occur if the file system transaction log is corrupted somehow. In this case run the following command in the command prompt:

fsutil resource setautoreset true c:\

PS: This assumes that the system drive is C:

Reboot is required after running the command.

Applies To:

Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 R2

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AMB

Comments

• Anonymous
  December 29, 2011
  Is there any risk with this command being ran on a windows 2011 server.

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2012
  Worked for me!

• Anonymous
  April 13, 2012
  Hi,I ran the same command in windows 7 and rebooted the machine.however still i am not able to run the service dinwos process activation.please help.

• Anonymous
  October 14, 2013
  Create a temp folder name "appPools" under C:/inetpub/tempIt will start working and all required services and application pool will start.

• Anonymous
  October 29, 2013
  This worked for me on SBS 2011. Thanks very much.Would be nice to know what caused it...

• Anonymous
  December 04, 2013
  Worked for me also!! Thank you!!

• Anonymous
  February 14, 2014
  Worked for meExchange 2007/Win2k8R2

• Anonymous
  May 12, 2014
  The command executed successfully, but still the same problem.Please help

• Anonymous
  July 08, 2014
  SBS 2011 is running again. THX for this blog.

• Anonymous
  September 22, 2014
  Ran command on Windows 7 machine, didn't work. Didn't notice Ahmet said to restart... should have known. Worked once machine rebooted.

• Anonymous
  October 31, 2014
  This script worked very well for me.Migration to virtual environment had caused it.Thank you very much.

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2014
  Fixed my problem. However it ran a chkdsk that took about 30 minutes and found/fixed a lot of errors.

• Anonymous
  June 18, 2015
  Awesome!! Fixed my problem

• Anonymous
  June 30, 2015
  I did all that and a pending disk check, then it was solved.

• Anonymous
  July 08, 2015
  Fix my problem, but only after chkdsk was ran

• Anonymous
  August 06, 2015
  Didn't work for me

• Anonymous
  September 10, 2015
  Thank you so much it works for me.

• Anonymous
  September 22, 2015
  Worked for me Thanks:)

• Anonymous
  September 27, 2015
  THIS WORKED THANK YOU PRAISE THE LORD

• Anonymous
  October 26, 2015
  Thank you so much,it works for me

• Anonymous
  December 01, 2015
  Works for me. Thanks :)

• Anonymous
  January 28, 2016
  Thanks this worked for me :-) Having spent days looking for a solution I was about to give up and restore from a backup, thanks again.

• Anonymous
  February 19, 2016
  Its worked for me, Thanks A LOT :)

• Anonymous
  September 18, 2016
  solved the issue in a second, thanks a lot

• Anonymous
  December 13, 2016
  Thanks a ton...Could be great learning if someone could share what is the root cause...

• Anonymous
  April 25, 2017
  Great.. Its working for me also.

• Anonymous
  June 21, 2017
  The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    June 22, 2017
    @Toufeeq: Hello, is there any error or warning logged in System Event logs?

• Anonymous
  August 03, 2017
  Work for me.Many thanks.