Microsoft KB Archive/272568

= Event ID 2019 or 2020 or &quot;Insufficient System Resources&quot; error returned when logging on =

Article ID: 272568

Article Last Modified on 2/28/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q272568





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Norton Antivirus 5.0



SYMPTOMS
You may experience one or more of the following:  Your server may lose network connectivity with its clients and report the following errors in the event log:

Event ID: 2020

Source: Srv

Description: The server was unable to allocate from the system paged pool because the pool was empty.

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Event ID: 2019

Source: Srv

Description: The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the pool was empty.

 Your server may stop accepting new user connections through Terminal Services. When the user tries to log on to the server that is running Terminal Services, the following error message appears:

User Environment

Windows cannot logon you because the profile cannot be loaded. Contact your network administrator.

DETAIL - Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service.

After this error message appears, the user is disconnected from the Terminal Services server. You receive the following error message when you log on locally to the server:

User Environment

Windows cannot logon you because the profile cannot be loaded. Contact your network administrator.

DETAIL - Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service.

Note that you may be allowed to get to the Windows desktop but you cannot work normally because the server is running out of memory.

All of these symptoms are alleviated if you restart the server.



CAUSE
This behavior can occur if Microsoft Windows 2000 domain controllers run Symantec's Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition software, versions 7.00, 7.01, 7.02, or 7.03 or 8.0.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, contact Symantec to inquire about the availability of a fix for this issue. This issue has been addressed in release 10.3.1.13 of the SymEvent driver. For information about how to contact Symantec, click the appropriate article number in the following list to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

65416 Hardware and software vendor contact information, A-K

60781 Hardware and software vendor contact information, L-P

60782 Hardware and software vendor contact information, Q-Z

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For more information about computer viruses, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

129972 Computer viruses: description, prevention, and recovery

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