Symptoms
Assume that you have a Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) encrypted database on an instance of Microsoft SQL Server. When you restart the instance of SQL Server, you may receive a lock time-out error that resembles the following:
Starting up database <DatabaseName>.
Error: 1222, Severity: 16, State: 55.
Lock request time out period exceeded.
Error: 9016, Severity: 21, State: 7.
An error occurred while processing the log for database <DatabaseName>. The log block could not be decrypted.
Then, the database will go in a suspect state.You can get the database back online by using Emergency Mode. You won't encounter corruption.
Resolution
This problem was fixed in the following cumulative updates for SQL Server:
Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2016 SP1
Cumulative Update 4 for SQL Server 2016
Cumulative update 3 for SQL Server 2014 SP2
Cumulative Update 10 for SQL Server 2014 SP1
Cumulative Update 6 for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 3
About cumulative updates for SQL Server
Each new cumulative update for SQL Server contains all the hotfixes and all the security fixes that were included with the previous cumulative update. Check out the latest cumulative updates for SQL Server:
Latest cumulative update for SQL Server 2016
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
References
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