First Strike Forums — PB:IMPORTANT:RESTRICTION

Re: PB:IMPORTANT:RESTRICTION

null@example.com (Alliance.Ace.Pilot) — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:02:44 +0000

For me it was actually an encryption issue. I use file encryption and the punkbuster files were encrypted using my software and that made their certificate invalid as they were under my own personal certificate. I did stuff like uninstalling punkbuster via the PB utility, then manually removing any trace of it from the registry and reinstalling via the same utility and even running PBSetup after that. Worst case scenario uninstall everything and reinstall, but thats usually not needed.

Re: PB:IMPORTANT:RESTRICTION

null@example.com (XYLR) — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:44:30 +0000

k i would check your fire wall permition list i had the same problem its proble blockin the patch k see ya i have to go watch the reast of the bleach ep.s

Re: PB:IMPORTANT:RESTRICTION

null@example.com (Slyrunner) — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:22:19 +0000

sooo...ya...I deleted pnkbstr A & B under pb in my bf2142 directory and did the PBSetup...and...they didnt come back...is that bad?

Im having the same problem....

Re: PB:IMPORTANT:RESTRICTION

null@example.com (Alliance.Ace.Pilot) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:43:23 +0000

Squalla thanks!

To quote young Anakin Skywalker:

"It's working! It's working!!" lol

Finally! I just want to say First Strike is awesome! This is so much fun!

Re: PB:IMPORTANT:RESTRICTION

null@example.com (johnrock2) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:41:14 +0000

HI johnrock2 here I am having porblems pbuster Bexe and tired the new patch

johnrock2 out

Re: PB:IMPORTANT:RESTRICTION

null@example.com (Alliance.Ace.Pilot) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:02:50 +0000

squalla2 wrote:

Reinstall bf2142 worked fore me

Yup, good idead.. was actually thinking about doing that. I hate to do it but it's worth a shot.

Re: PB:IMPORTANT:RESTRICTION

null@example.com (Alliance.Ace.Pilot) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:01:08 +0000

No, the servers have been 1.1 servers (I filter them). I've been joining BOC Servers as well as the Defenders of Sovereignty one (when it was up) it's not a version mismatch.

In regards to troubleshooting I did delete all PB files (including the ones in the WIN32 directory) restarted, and ran PBsetup. I found 4 or 5 different procedures similar to this one and tried them all both verbatim and in combination with other suggestions. Basically they all pertain to removing PB (some via PKsvc, some by a simple deleting of the files etc..) then restarting (in some restarting wasn't needed) then reinstalling the PB via PKsvc and or PKsetup not necessarily in that order. I'm not going to type out everything I tried because that would take about 30 minutes or so lol I was at this for at least 5 hours last night after I downloaded v 1.1. I'm going to contact PB support but from what I read that can take a really long time -----> RC2 FTW? lol

Re: PB:IMPORTANT:RESTRICTION

null@example.com (squalla2) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:41:22 +0000

Reinstall bf2142 worked fore me

Re: PB:IMPORTANT:RESTRICTION

null@example.com (Bloedig_Vader) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:09:38 +0000

Also, do as others said and delete the PB files, run PBSetup.exe, and then make sure to do a system restart. I had the same issue last weekend with PB and those are the steps that actually cleared it up for me. The restart may be critical, as I did everything but restart and it didn't work. However, after the restart it was fine and has been since.

Re: PB:IMPORTANT:RESTRICTION

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:05:18 +0000

Most likely you are trying to join a server which hasn't patched to version 1.1 yet. Try the BOC server. They have patched and you should be fine. Regarding the other servers, you will have to wait untill they are patched.

Re: PB:IMPORTANT:RESTRICTION

null@example.com (Markus) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:03:09 +0000

hmm then i would suggest sending a mail to the PB support team, cause im at a loss here

Re: PB:IMPORTANT:RESTRICTION

null@example.com (Alliance.Ace.Pilot) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:21:58 +0000

Just got this out of a pnkbstr log as a result of the search on pnkbstr...

PnkBstrB.exe does not contain a valid certificate; Load denied.

The plot thickens...

Re: PB:IMPORTANT:RESTRICTION

null@example.com (Alliance.Ace.Pilot) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:18:03 +0000

Thanks... I've been at this problem for hours now and it's got me stumped.

Somehow installing Patch 1.1 didn't jive with my PunkBuster.

Consequently, I'm having the same problem with regular BF 2142.

I've read probably a dozen forum posts about this exact same problem one of which was about 15 pages and included the longest Hijack This log I've ever seen...

I don't know. Basically pnkbstrb just goes kerplunk and disappears no matter what I've tried. I even made sure all the relevant registry entries were removed manually. Clean uninstall (using multiple techniques) reboot and then a clean install (using multiple combinations as well i.e. using pbsetup first and selecting BF2142, updating then running PBsvc etc....)

Long story short - it's not working. lol

Re: PB:IMPORTANT:RESTRICTION

null@example.com (Markus) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:26:04 +0000

using PBsvc.exe uninstall pb.
then install it again with the same PBsev.exe
pressing reinstall doesnt work to good with PB.
also if search for "pnkbstr" you wil find more then one A or B.exe. to be on the save side, put them all in your firewall exception list

PB:IMPORTANT:RESTRICTION

null@example.com (Alliance.Ace.Pilot) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:35:04 +0000

I'm getting kicked from any 1.1 server I join within minutes as a result of this error:

PB:IMPORTANT:RESTRICTION:: Service Communication error - failed to initialize PNKBSTRB.EXE

I ran PBsvc and confirmed that there were exceptions in my firewall for both.

All punkbuster versions are up to date.

I checked Windows services and verified that Punkbuster A and Punkbuster B load automatically and both services were already started.

I ran FS 1.1 and again got:

PB:IMPORTANT:RESTRICTION:: Service Communication error - failed to initialize PNKBSTRB.EXE

So I checked services and Punkbuster B was gone.

I ran PBsvc again and confirmed everything was good to go.

Started FS 1.1 and quickly alt tabbed to services and refreshed the list to discover Punkbuster B was gone.

For some reason when I load FS1.1 the Punkbuster B not only stops but disappears all together from my Services list as though it were never there..

Imperial Sabotage? Maybe...

Sith Mind Trick? Perhaps...

REALLY stinkin frustrating?!? Indeed.