Error: Unable to start Citadel 5 services

[tidstein]

I am running LabVIEW v7.1 Developer Suite with DSC v7.1
Running Windows 2000

I am using LabVIEW to access data from an OPC server located in the PC running LabVIEW. I set up a vi to read the wanted data with no problems. Today, when I tried to open the saved vi I recieved this error message: "Unable to start Citadel 5 services". I have never recieved this error message before. As a result, I can not access the Tag Configuration Editor. Does anyone have any suggestions/comments that may help me? Thank you.

Tom

[nickf]

tidstein,

I'm sure you have tried rebooting your PC. If this did not solve the error try repairing the installation of the DSC Module from Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel.

Citadel 5 is the database portion of the DSC module. It is dependent on several other components that should be installed/updated by the DSC Module installer. Another component that Citadel depends on is Microsoft's MSDE (http://www.microsoft.com/sql/msde/default.asp). This shows up as sqlservr.exe in the task manager (This component is automatically installed when you install the DSC Module). Citadel must be able to start this service in order to run.

Let me know if you were able to resolve this issue.

Regards,

-Nick F
Product Support Engineer
National Instruments