Unable to start service process

[Zachary.Millis]

Hi,

Weird issue that I'm having on a new MOSS/MOPS farm:
When I provisioned the PWA site, the queue service starts and launches a
single Queueing process as the farm account (timer job service account). A
second Queueing process never starts, and the queue doesn't process anything.

I tried adding the SSP admin account to the "log on locally" policy, as well
as the "log on as a service" policy, but the second process never starts. :-(

When I configure the entire farm to use the same service for
Farm/Search/SSP/SSPAdmin/PWA etc the process starts properly and the queue
runs, so I don't think this is an install issue.

The errors that are displaying in the application event log are:
Unable to start service process SSP <guid> Service ProjectServerQueue
Unable to start service process SSP <guid> Service pjevtsvc

My current configuration has the same account being used for the SSP App
Pool, SSP Service, and Project App Pool, with separate accounts for
everything else (Farm, Search, Crawl).

I've been working on this for about a week now, so if anyone has any
suggestions I'd love to try them.

Thanks!!

-Zach

 

[Zachary.Millis]

Additional Info:

This is a 2 server farm right now:
Front End:
MOSS w/ SP2, April CU
MOPS w/ SP2, April CU
SQL Reporting Services (not configured; service not running)

Back End:
SQL 2008 SP1 CU3

The error in the ULS logs say "Access Denied" when it tried to start the
process, but doesn't say what is getting denied or where it's happening. I
tried adding the SSP account to local administrators group and SQL sysadmin,
but that did not fix it.

 

[Zachary.Millis]

Well after another full week of endless, fruitless searching, I switched the
SSP service to use the Farm account, and that fixed the issue. Still not
100% sure why it wasn't working - am going to try again in a new farm next
week.