I thought I'd sharer this problem and resolution if anyone else ever sees this problem. Below is a copy of my event log for anytime I tried to run the BE12 console from my desktop PC to connect to our media server. I opened a ticket with Symantec on 5/3 and we uninstalled and reinstalled everything several times with no success. Finally after sending 6 or so crash dumps to Symantec the Symantec engineer I was working with said it was a Microsoft.Net 2.0 problem and I needed to open a ticket with them. Luckily I'm a Technet Plus subscriber so I opened a support case with them. I then spoke to an engineer in the C++/C# team at MS who after analyzing the same crash dump Symantec was working with noticed that there was mention that the Verdana font was missing. So I checked this, sure enough it was missing (I have no idea why) copied it from my laptop and the thing works fine now. So the problem was resolved on 6/4.
The Symantec engineer said they will be creating a technote for that and possibly update the code to substitute a font in case Verdana is missing. I guess in 11d that was the way it worked. I can't believe a missing font could crash the console. Oh well, I'm glad it's working again.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: .NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting
Event Category: None
Event ID: 5000
Date: 6/4/2008
Time: 2:10:35 PM
User: N/A
Computer: LEGERE99
Description:
EventType clr20r3, P1 bkupexec.exe, P2 12.0.1364.107, P3 48061bf1, P4 mscorlib, P5 2.0.0.0, P6 471ebc5b, P7 f48, P8 0, P9 n3ctrye2kn3c34sgl4zqyrbfte4m13nb, P10 NIL.
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