base table definition string is invalid

[PeterHoffman]

I am trying to start the first new service on a 10.1 server. It has one layer. I get this error message:

Error: service started with errors.
Machine: TEST [service instance is started with errors. The base table definition string "Coast_line" is invalid]*

I have r/w permissions on the data folder for the arcgis arcgis user.

Thanks,

[ChrisNorth]

I had the same problem - but the solution was permission on the source data folder, not the output directory.  I had to give the ArcGIS user account read/write permission on the folder containing the file geodatabase.  I also registered the folder as a datasource.

Doing that got rid of the error.

Chris

[JoshWhite]

What I don't understand is that this table was in the same file geodatabase as the rest of the layers in the map.  Also, I didn't get any errors when I analyzed it, I only got the error when I actually went to publish it.

[RyanColeman]

I have the same issue. The layer in question is in a SQL spatial database that is registered and validates fine. Both my ArcGIS Server Account and my user account have full permissions on the drive all this stuff is on and on SQL. No idea where to go from there.

It's probably just 10.1 SP1...

[JoshWhite]

Ryan,
This actually happened to me before installing the SP 1 as well and didn't appear to go away when I did install it.

[RyanColeman]

So a few things I've figured out
1) You have to now give the arcgis server account editing privileges and versioning
2) You have to have no other layers in the service definition file except those you want to use in a feature service, so basically I had to create a new service with just the one layer I wanted to be a feature service. This wasn't the case in 10, as long as I didn't try to use the other layers as features there was no problem.

[RedLong]

Same error message here.
Above workarounds do not work for me. 😞

Any other ideas around?
What is a base table definition string anyway? :confused:

Regards,
RL

[deleted-user-ugCMpXci8bn5]

I received this error using ArcGIS for Server 10.2 when I tried to publish from an mxd in my C:/Users/user/Desktop folder.  Once I moved the mxd and data to a folder higher in the directory structure (to C:/newFolder), I no longer had the error.  I assume this was a permissions issue;  this does seem to be (another) one of those ESRI errors which the error description itself is not really related to the actual problem.

[Anonymous User]

@ESRI  - there's a lot of us getting this error message including myself.  Can you shed some light on the possible causes of this issue?

Brad

[JamalNUMAN]

@ESRI  - there's a lot of us getting this error message including myself.  Can you shed some light on the possible causes of this issue?

Brad

Very frustrating:

[ATTACH=CONFIG]20923[/ATTACH], [ATTACH=CONFIG]20924[/ATTACH]

What might be the issue? how to be resolved

Thank you

best

Jamal

[JerrySimmons_GISP]

I had the same issue and resolved it by giving user arcgis SELECT rights to the database in SQL