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    Posted: 12-Jul-2007 at 12:11pm
I’m getting the following error in an application that’s in deployment testing.  It’s an NT service, works correctly in debug and release on my development machine.
 
Timestamp: 3/16/2007 3:55:12 PM
Message: Unable to initialize PersistenceManager
The type initializer for 'IdeaBlade.Util.TraceFns' threw an exception.
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From your email, it looks like this service works correct on your development machine. but not your production machine.  My best guess at the moment is that this is some type of environmental issue possibly security related.
 
I suspect that the type initializer problem may be due to an inability to write to the log file specified in your ibconfig file.  We have seen other customers who have seen the same or similar type initializer exception attempting to deploy a Windows Service.
 
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You were correct, the account specified for the service, which was not LocalSystem, could not write to \Windows or anything underneath it.  We used your suggestion to change the working directory prior to creating the PersistenceManager, and allowed the service account to read/write to that directory, and everything worked as expected.  I’d call this issue closed.
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