Solution: Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator Fails To Start With Service Specific Error 3221229584

By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
Thursday, November 16, 2006

When MS DTC fails to start and you get an error like:
“The Distributed Transaction Coordinator service terminated with service-specific error 3221229584 (0xC0001010).”

You know you are in trouble. Fortunately there is a simple solution.

You can find the actual error from Event Viewer:
“MS DTC log file not found. After ensuring that all Resource Managers coordinated by MS DTC have no indoubt transactions, please run msdtc -resetlog to create the log file.”

That is pretty much what you do. After restarting the machine type in cmd / command prompt:
msdtc -resetlog

Now start the service again and it will start without a problem.

Filed under: Microsoft, Technology, Windows
Discussion

Петко
March 18, 2010: 3:34 pm

This simply won’t work-there’s message that service can’t start.Even more the command needs second row:
1.msdtc resetlog
2. net start msdtc
3.service specific error occurred 3221229584
4. then ===


Hoa
May 15, 2007: 2:57 am

Hi,
After stopping Distributed Transaction Coordinator service, it disappears in services list. I can’t restore to start Distributed Transaction Coordinator service.
Can you help me?
Plz send to my email.
Tks

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