Stupid Windows 2003 Server

My colleague had a very interesting brush with Windows 2003 Server today.

Apparently, what happened was that Citrix failed to function for a particular user on this server. He rebooted the server, and took the opportunity to install 2 updates, KB960362 and KB980182.

After the reboot, the Citrix Licence Service failed to function, and a look at the services entailed the following messages :-

net start slsvc
The Software Licensing service is starting.
The Software Licensing service could not be started.

A system error has occurred.

System error 5 has occurred.

access is denied.

Obviously, my friend was in a bit of flurry, and emailed out to ask if anyone had similar issues after patching.

Then came the shocker.

I couldn't help but laugh at the error message. :)