Hmm - sounds weird. Could you try and do a clean install of a new starter kit on your local machine? We have tested the starter kit in house and didnt have any problems.

Kind regards
Anders

Removed all files from webfolder, extracted all files from the zip-file again and copied them to the webfolder. Set file permissions through icacls, restarted website, but without any luck. Error message;

And when I try to log on to the administration section (/umbraco/), after logging on with default account, a similar error message occurs;

Did you remember to unblock the .zip file before unpacking?

Kind regards
Anders

Hi Anders,

Thanks for your support/feedback!

Yes, I did, I've unblocked the zip.

And to make sure there aren't any blocks on any of the files, I've run "streams" on the website just now (a tool to check for 'streams' with "Block(ed) info" on files http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897440.aspx ). But unfortunately, no streams on any of the files, so that didn't solve the problem...

Its really weird - i just installed the starter kit locally and all worked - took 5 min

Windows 8, IIS 8 (alworks with 7), Net 4.5

Kind regards
Anders

Could it have anything to do with the website folder being a network share?

When I lookup "GetRootDirectorySafe" from Umbraco sourcecode (v6.10/"0fab65ce232f"), it is the following code;

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the path to the root of the application, by getting the path to where the assembly where this
        /// method is included is present, then traversing until it's past the /bin directory. Ie. this makes it work
        /// even if the assembly is in a /bin/debug or /bin/release folder
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns></returns>
        internal static string GetRootDirectorySafe()
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(_rootDir) == false)
            {
                return _rootDir;
            }

            var codeBase = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase;
            var uri = new Uri(codeBase);
            var path = uri.LocalPath;
            var baseDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(path);
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(baseDirectory))
                throw new Exception("No root directory could be resolved. Please ensure that your Umbraco solution is correctly configured.");

            _rootDir = baseDirectory.Contains("bin")
                           ? baseDirectory.Substring(0, baseDirectory.LastIndexOf("bin", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) - 1)
                           : baseDirectory;

            return _rootDir;
        }

And judging by the error message ("Length cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: length"), it crashes on the line with 'Substring' where an invalid length is used.

Hmm that could be. Maybe report it as a bug - http://issues.umbraco.org/

Kind regards
Anders

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