Analysis Services started and then stopped, Event ID: 0xC1210000

I just installed SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition and SP1 and SP2. I cannot start Analysis Services. The message box states: The SQL Server Analysis Services (MSSQLSERVER) service on Local Computer started and then stopped. I looked in the log files located at: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\OLAP\Log and found these entries:

msmdsrv.log:

(6/15/2007 10:07:34 AM)
Message: The service cannot be started:
(Source: \\?\C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\OLAP\Log\msmdsrv.log,
Type: 3, Category: 289, Event ID: 0xC1210000)
?(6/15/2007 10:10:26 AM) Message:
The service cannot be started:
(Source: \\?\C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\OLAP\Log\msmdsrv.log,
Type: 3, Category: 289, Event ID: 0xC1210000)

During installation I did get an unhandled exception (I don't know what component caused the exception). I have found this in the SQLDUMPER_ERRORLOG.log file:

06/14/07 17:39:38, ERROR , msmdsrv.exe, Unable to open file C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\OLAP\Data\FlightRecorderCurrent.trc, error 2
06/14/07 17:39:38, ACTION, msmdsrv.exe, Watson Invoke: No

Any ideas how to get this service started?

I had the same problem as you discribed. Then I tried to reapply SP2. It works fine now.

I guess when you first applied SP2, analysis service was not installed and therefore the patch is not installed. Download the latest SP2 and try it again:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=d07219b2-1e23-49c8-8f0c-63fa18f26d3a&DisplayLang=en

good luck!