I have a fresh installation of dotnetnuke 6.1.2. When I try to load the dashboard, i receive the following error:

A critical error has occurred. Property accessor 'ShortFileName' on object 'DotNetNuke.Modules.Dashboard.Components.Database.DbFileInfo' threw the following exception:'StartIndex cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: startIndex' 

Based on previous threads, I've taken a look at my SQL account permissions. I'm using SQL Server 2005 on a separate box from my web server. I've tried giving my SQL account permissions on the master database so it can retrieve database info, but I still receive the error.

here's the complete info from the dnn Event Viewer. Thanks in advance for any guidance on getting my dashboard working

AssemblyVersion: 6.1.2

PortalID: 0

PortalName: MyPortal

UserID: 1

UserName: admin

ActiveTabID: 37

ActiveTabName: Dashboard

RawURL: /Host/Dashboard/tabid/37/portalid/0/Default.aspx

AbsoluteURL: /Default.aspx

AbsoluteURLReferrer: http://mydomain.com/Host/tabid/7/portalid/0/Default.aspx

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)

DefaultDataProvider: DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataProvider

ExceptionGUID: b8580155-87e9-45f7-9075-57980600d97a

InnerException: Property accessor 'ShortFileName' on object 'DotNetNuke.Modules.Dashboard.Components.Database.DbFileInfo' threw the following exception:'StartIndex cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: startIndex'

FileName:

FileLineNumber: 0

FileColumnNumber: 0

Method: System.String.InternalSubStringWithChecks

StackTrace:

Message: DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.PageLoadException: Property accessor 'ShortFileName' on object 'DotNetNuke.Modules.Dashboard.Components.Database.DbFileInfo' threw the following exception:'StartIndex cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: startIndex' ---> System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Property accessor 'ShortFileName' on object 'DotNetNuke.Modules.Dashboard.Components.Database.DbFileInfo' threw the following exception:'StartIndex cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: startIndex' ---> System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: StartIndex cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: startIndex at System.String.InternalSubStringWithChecks(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Boolean fAlwaysCopy) at DotNetNuke.Modules.Dashboard.Components.Database.DbFileInfo.get_ShortFileName() --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.ComponentModel.ReflectPropertyDescriptor.GetValue(Object component) at System.Web.UI.DataBinder.GetPropertyValue(Object container, String propName) at System.Web.UI.DataBinder.Eval(Object container, String[] expressionParts) at ASP.desktopmodules_admin_dashboard_modules_database_ascx.__DataBinding__control27(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Control.DataBind(Boolean raiseOnDataBinding) at System.Web.UI.Control.DataBindChildren() at System.Web.UI.Control.DataBind(Boolean raiseOnDataBinding) at System.Web.UI.Control.DataBindChildren() at System.Web.UI.Control.DataBind(Boolean raiseOnDataBinding) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridView.CreateRow(Int32 rowIndex, Int32 dataSourceIndex, DataControlRowType rowType, DataControlRowState rowState, Boolean dataBind, Object dataItem, DataControlField[] fields, TableRowCollection rows, PagedDataSource pagedDataSource) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridView.CreateChildControls(IEnumerable dataSource, Boolean dataBinding) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.CompositeDataBoundControl.PerformDataBinding(IEnumerable data) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridView.PerformDataBinding(IEnumerable data) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataBoundControl.OnDataSourceViewSelectCallback(IEnumerable data) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataBoundControl.PerformSelect() at DotNetNuke.Modules.Dashboard.Controls.Database.OnLoad(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

Source:

Server Name: myserver

 Here are the results of the stored procedure, which seem valid:

USE [DotNetNuke]
GO


DECLARE @return_value int


EXEC @return_value = [dbo].[Dashboard_GetDbFileInfo]


SELECT 'Return Value' = @return_value


GO

Results

DATA DotNetNuke 51200 E:\sqldata\DotNetNuke.mdf
LOG DotNetNuke_log 39936 G:\DotNetNuke_log.ldf

It appears I did not have the database user in db_owner schema, just the role. I had reviewed the readme.txt when installing, it said "make sure you grant sufficient database permissions (db_owner is commonly used)", so perhaps I mistakenly thought the role was sufficient. I tried putting the user in the schema now, but it didn't seem to make a difference. Any more advice? Thanks again.