If your SSRS does not start and worst unable to completely start with the following exception thrown at event viewer
Application: RSHostingService.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.Xml.XmlException
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(System.Exception)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseRootLevelWhitespace()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDocumentContent()
at System.Xml.XmlReader.MoveToContent()
at System.Xml.Linq.XElement.Load(System.Xml.XmlReader, System.Xml.Linq.LoadOptions)
at System.Xml.Linq.XElement.Load(System.String, System.Xml.Linq.LoadOptions)
at Microsoft.BIServer.Configuration.ConfigReader..ctor(System.String)
at Microsoft.BIServer.BIService.ServiceConfig..ctor(System.String)
at Microsoft.BIServer.BIService.BIService.SetNewConfigFilePathIfExists(System.String)
at Microsoft.BIServer.BIService.BIService..ctor()
at Microsoft.BIServer.BIService.Program.Main()
Also tried to repair the installation and the process ALWAYS fails.
My solution here was to delete the SSRS folder at the default installation folder of
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
After that reinstall the ssrs.
Register the old reportserver database in the report server configuration.
Happy Coding!
Hi,
there is another solution for this issue. Most probably rsreportserver.config can’t be parsed correctly. You can check SSRS log files i.e. C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services\SSRS\LogFiles\ and find out where exactly is the problem.