Event ID - 454

Event Id454
SourceESENT
Descriptionservices (PID) Unable to read the log header. Error -<error number>.
Event InformationIf the error related to Microsoft Exchange Server, according to Microsoft:

Event ID 454 is a generic event that indicates a problem either with a restore operation or with the recovery of an Exchange 2000 Information Store database. Generally, Event ID 454 means that Exchange 2000 has determined that:

• Files in the databases running set are missing.
-or-
• Files in the databases running set have been replaced with different versions.
_or_
• Files in the databases running set are corrupted.
For more information about this event click the link, "ESE Event ID 454 - Information Store (976) Database Recovery/Restore Failed with Unexpected Error", to a MS article given below.

If this event logs in along with event, Userenv 1000, SceCli 1202, according to Microsoft "this issue occurs if the local Group Policy database file is corrupt." For more information refer the link to article "ESENT Event IDs 1000, 1202, 412, and 454 are logged repeatedly in the application event log" given below.

Following information form newsgroup post may help:

"After updating our SBS I got the following error message at the last update:
Event Source: Automatic Updates-Event ID: 20, Event Source: ESENT- Evenet ID: 454.

Suggested solution:
From a command prompt...
net stop cryptsvc
ren %systemroot%\system32\catroot2 oldcatroot2
net start cryptsvc "
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"Getting following events in event log, Event Source: ESENT- Event ID 477, Event Source: ESENT-Event ID: 465, Event Source: ESENT-Event ID: 454.
Suggested solution:
This is a known issue with the WU v5 client. It has to do with how the client agent interacts with the Jet database engine. This is something well consider fixing in a future version of the WU client. Im not aware of work around for this issue, sorry. [
Reference Links ESENT Event IDs 1000, 1202, 412, and 454 are logged repeatedly in the application event log

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XADM: ESE Event ID 454 - Information Store (976) Database Recovery/Restore Failed with Unexpected Error

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