There are no other related events I can find in the log.
The Metabase.xml file is listed as being 37KB in size.

Ray Flanery
>-----Original Message-----
>Are there any other related events (in both the System
and Application event
>log).
>
>What is the filesize of: %SYSTEMROOT%\System32
\inetsrv\metabase.xml
>
>--
>//David
>IIS
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
>//
>"Ray Flanery" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message
>news:022101c3ce50$78f5b520$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>All of a sudden IIS will not start up. I get the following
>events in the Event Viewer every time:
>1-
>Event Type: Error
>Event Source: W3SVC
>Event Category: None
>Event ID: 1063
>Date: 12/29/2003
>Time: 4:02:10 PM
>User: N/A
>Computer: MEEKI
>Description:
>The World Wide Web Publishing Service encountered a
>failure requesting metabase change notifications. The
>data field contains the error number.
>
>For more information, see Help and Support Center at
>[url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.[/url]
>Data:
>0000: 02 40 00 80 .@.?
>----------------------------------------------------------
-
>2-
>Event Type: Error
>Event Source: W3SVC
>Event Category: None
>Event ID: 1036
>Date: 12/29/2003
>Time: 4:02:10 PM
>User: N/A
>Computer: MEEKI
>Description:
>A failure occurred while initializing the configuration
>manager for the World Wide Web Publishing Service. The
>data field contains the error number.
>
>For more information, see Help and Support Center at
>[url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.[/url]
>Data:
>0000: 02 40 00 80 .@.?
>----------------------------------------------------------
-
>3-
>Event Type: Error
>Event Source: W3SVC
>Event Category: None
>Event ID: 1005
>Date: 12/29/2003
>Time: 4:02:10 PM
>User: N/A
>Computer: MEEKI
>Description:
>The World Wide Web Publishing Service is exiting due to an
>error. The data field contains the error number.
>
>For more information, see Help and Support Center at
>[url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.[/url]
>Data:
>0000: 02 40 00 80 .@.?
>----------------------------------------------------------
-
>
>4-
>Event Type: Error
>Event Source: Service Control Manager
>Event Category: None
>Event ID: 7024
>Date: 12/29/2003
>Time: 4:02:10 PM
>User: N/A
>Computer: MEEKI
>Description:
>The World Wide Web Publishing Service service terminated
>with service-specific error 2147500034 (0x80004002).
>
>For more information, see Help and Support Center at
>[url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.[/url]
>
>----------------------------------------------------------
-
>
>Microsofts' website is useless, you would think that
>somewhere they would have information on errors produced
>by there own software!
>
>Does anyone have a clue what is going on here?
>
>flaneryrejr@ornl.gov
>
>
>.
>

IIS was working. I tried to install ARCIMS and TOMCAT and
at that point it was still working. However, I had not
installed TOMCAT and ARCIMS properly in relation to IIS
6.0, so I had to uninstall them and start over. It was
after I uninstalled those two packages that IIS stopped
working. When the system rebooted after their removal, I
recieved an error saying that a service had not started
and when I checked the event log, those errors are what I
found.

I have since tried to uninstall and reinstall IIS, but I
still get the exact same errors.

Ray Flanery
>-----Original Message-----
>Ther Hresult( 0x80004002) is a c++ error indicating w3svc
crashed because
>it recieved an error code back from an object, no
interface suported. Or
>that an object was making a call to inetinfo and it did
not support that
>interface. Do you have any custom com components, ISAPI
filters? 3rd party
>isapi's, web monitoring software? What changed before
this error started
>occuring or has iis never work on that box?
>If you can't pinpoint what changes you made on the sever
you may want to
>look for a user.dmp file and open it with a debugger and
look for the stack
>unwind.
>
>
>Best regards,
>Jason M. Murray [MSFT]
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
>Use of included script samples are subject to the terms
specified at
>[url]http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm.[/url]
>
>
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>| Are there any other related events (in both the System
and Application
>event
>| log).
>|
>| What is the filesize of: %SYSTEMROOT%\System32
\inetsrv\metabase.xml
>|
>| --
>| //David
>| IIS
>| This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties,
and confers no
>rights.
>| //
>| "Ray Flanery" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message
>| news:022101c3ce50$78f5b520$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>| All of a sudden IIS will not start up. I get the
following
>| events in the Event Viewer every time:
>| 1-
>| Event Type: Error
>| Event Source: W3SVC
>| Event Category: None
>| Event ID: 1063
>| Date: 12/29/2003
>| Time: 4:02:10 PM
>| User: N/A
>| Computer: MEEKI
>| Description:
>| The World Wide Web Publishing Service encountered a
>| failure requesting metabase change notifications. The
>| data field contains the error number.
>|
>| For more information, see Help and Support Center at
>| [url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.[/url]
>| Data:
>| 0000: 02 40 00 80 .@.?
>| --------------------------------------------------------
---
>| 2-
>| Event Type: Error
>| Event Source: W3SVC
>| Event Category: None
>| Event ID: 1036
>| Date: 12/29/2003
>| Time: 4:02:10 PM
>| User: N/A
>| Computer: MEEKI
>| Description:
>| A failure occurred while initializing the configuration
>| manager for the World Wide Web Publishing Service. The
>| data field contains the error number.
>|
>| For more information, see Help and Support Center at
>| [url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.[/url]
>| Data:
>| 0000: 02 40 00 80 .@.?
>| --------------------------------------------------------
---
>| 3-
>| Event Type: Error
>| Event Source: W3SVC
>| Event Category: None
>| Event ID: 1005
>| Date: 12/29/2003
>| Time: 4:02:10 PM
>| User: N/A
>| Computer: MEEKI
>| Description:
>| The World Wide Web Publishing Service is exiting due to
an
>| error. The data field contains the error number.
>|
>| For more information, see Help and Support Center at
>| [url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.[/url]
>| Data:
>| 0000: 02 40 00 80 .@.?
>| --------------------------------------------------------
---
>|
>| 4-
>| Event Type: Error
>| Event Source: Service Control Manager
>| Event Category: None
>| Event ID: 7024
>| Date: 12/29/2003
>| Time: 4:02:10 PM
>| User: N/A
>| Computer: MEEKI
>| Description:
>| The World Wide Web Publishing Service service terminated
>| with service-specific error 2147500034 (0x80004002).
>|
>| For more information, see Help and Support Center at
>| [url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.[/url]
>|
>| --------------------------------------------------------
---
>|
>| Microsofts' website is useless, you would think that
>| somewhere they would have information on errors produced
>| by there own software!
>|
>| Does anyone have a clue what is going on here?
>|
>| [email]flaneryrejr@ornl.gov[/email]
>|
>|
>|
>
>.
>

i am replying to this for all those people in the world who may be looking for a solution. What a frustrating problem.

I installed ArcGIS Server on Windows Server 2003 SP 2 before properly configuring IIS 6.0.... similar to the previous person's problem.

regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\oleaut32.dll

worked for me!

I know its an old thread, but I wanted to mention it. I had this problem after uninstalling some ArcGIS components, and sera's fix took care of it. Thanks! :)