Symptoms

When you try to start the adTempus Console, the program displays a "Configuration parser error" dialog box with the following error message:

Error parsing C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Config\machine.config
Parser returned error 0x80070005.

Cause

Error code 0x80070005 indicates an "access denied" error on the configuration file named in the message.

Resolution

Check the permissions on this file to ensure that all users have Read access to it.

Additional Information

This problem is sometimes seen in conjunction with the adTempus service failure described in article K00000490 and appears to be caused by installation of DB2 drivers as part of IBM iAccess for Windows.