Error 14001: The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect when starting a QlikView service

[Daniele_Purrone]

Services fail to start with:

Error 14001: The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect

Environment:

QlikView  

Resolution:

Side by side errors are generic. They point to issues such as .dll or configuration file corruption.

The Microsoft tool Sxstrace tool can be used to identify the root cause:

1. run an administrative command prompt
2. enable tracing with:  sxstrace trace -logfile:sxstrace.etl
3. reproduce the issue by starting the faulty service
4. go back to the command prompt and press Enter to end the tracing
5. convert the tracing into a human-readable format with: sxstrace parse -logfile:sxstrace.etl -outfile:sxstrace.txt
6. analyze the resulting sxstrace.txt file and, if necessary, send it to Qlik Support.

We provide an example identified in a previous Qlik Support case. In this case, renaming the identified file resolved the issue:

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Begin Activation Context Generation.
Input Parameter:
	Flags = 0
	ProcessorArchitecture = AMD64
	CultureFallBacks = en-US;en
	ManifestPath = c:\Program Files\QlikView\Directory Service Connector\QVDirectoryServiceConnector.exe
	AssemblyDirectory = c:\Program Files\QlikView\Directory Service Connector\
	Application Config File = c:\Program Files\QlikView\Directory Service Connector\QVDirectoryServiceConnector.exe.Config
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INFO: Parsing Application Config File c:\Program Files\QlikView\Directory Service Connector\QVDirectoryServiceConnector.exe.Config.
	ERROR: Line 16: XML Syntax error.
ERROR: Activation Context generation failed.
End Activation Context Generation.