Help, BIND9 initialization error on Windows 2000!

[Danny Mayer]

Shi Jingnian wrote:
> i uninstalled BIND8 on windows 2000 server (which
> ran well) and installed BIND9, with all zone files
> and config file rewritten. However, as i started
> the service, it popped out an error dialog saying
> initialization(0xc0000142) failed. i tried to
> install BIND 9 on another windows 2000 server, it
> started well with the same config file and the zone
> files. What's the matter? i searched and compared
> the files including registry files, no difference
> found between the two machines...
> 
> By the way i should say i found a bug in BIND 8 and
> BIND 9, they created wrong UninstallString value in
> the registry file (C:\WINNT\BINDinstall.exe)
> no matter where i installed BIND.
> 
> i tried installing BIND 9 again on that machine but
> it failed again. no other info found about it.
> what should i do next?  please help me!
> 

What does the event log tell you? Is named.conf in the right place? Did 
you read the readme1st.txt file? Did you set up write permissions for 
the account running named to write to the directory you specify in the 
options directory directive?

Danny