Did you check that the virtual directory was created and were the contents there?

yes, it's all there

I just did a manual upgrade and I get the same results

In Firefox, the error message is:
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

is there a web config timeout value I could adjust?

If it helps, I'm running W2k3, SQL2005, 64bit versions

I see, we have an issue with Gemini 2.1.* on 64bit, it doesn't work. We are working on this.

Somehow, I managed to get an error message, now I get the following EVEN THOUGH I HAVE VERIFIED advologix is a valid dbo owner of the database.

[SqlException (0x80131904): Cannot open database "Gemini21Test" requested by the login. The login failed.
Login failed for user 'advologix'.]
   System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.GetConnection(DbConnection owningObject) +642
   System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.GetConnection(DbConnection owningConnection) +110
   System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionClosed.OpenConnection(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory) +263
   System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.Open() +272
   CounterSoft.Gemini.Commons.GeminiHelper.LogEx(Exception ex, String strOtherInfo) +111

[ADOException: cannot open connection]
   CounterSoft.Gemini.DataProvider.BaseProvider.xdd71a6c437ce97cd(Type x86c43ef36e14f2a3, Object[] xdbd7e0681bb13f72) +1376
   CounterSoft.Gemini.DataProvider.BaseProvider.xc5a6238415274e6d(Type x86c43ef36e14f2a3, Object[] xdbd7e0681bb13f72) +21
   CounterSoft.Gemini.DataProvider.ApplicationSettingsProvider.x1a95834709519378(String x2335cd6458013014) +128
   CounterSoft.Gemini.Business.DatabaseApplicationSettings.Initialise() +50
   CounterSoft.Gemini.Business.DatabaseApplicationSettings..ctor() +66
   CounterSoft.Gemini.Business.Initialiser..cctor() +31

[TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Initialiser' threw an exception.]
   CounterSoft.Gemini.Business.ApplicationSettingsFactory.GetAppSettings() +25
   CounterSoft.Gemini.Business.ApplicationSettings..cctor() +9

[TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'CounterSoft.Gemini.Business.ApplicationSettings' threw an exception.]
   CounterSoft.Gemini.Business.ApplicationSettings.getTheme() +0
   CounterSoft.Gemini.Business.BasePage.OnPreInit(EventArgs e) +101
   System.Web.UI.Page.PerformPreInit() +45
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1272

The applicable section of my webconfig looks like this

  </GeminiPlugins>
  <nhibernate>
      <!-- The SQL Server dialect (Gemini supports "MsSql2005Dialect" or "MsSql2000Dialect" or "MsSql7Dialect") -->
      <add key="hibernate.dialect" value="NHibernate.Dialect.MsSql2000Dialect"/>
      <!-- The SQL Server database connection string -->
      <add key="hibernate.connection.connectionstring" value="data source=127.0.0.1;initial catalog=Gemini21Test;user id=advologix;password=xxxxxxx"/>
      <!-- Misc -->
      <add key="hibernate.connection.provider" value="NHibernate.Connection.DriverConnectionProvider"/>
      <add key="hibernate.connection.driver_class" value="NHibernate.Driver.SqlClientDriver"/>
  </nhibernate>
  <GeminiLocalisation>
    <GeminiLocalisation defaultCulture="en-US" languageFilePath="Language"/>
  </GeminiLocalisation>
  <connectionStrings>
    <add name="ProfilesServer" connectionString="data source=127.0.0.1;initial catalog=Gemini21Test;user id=advologix;password=xxxxxxx" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
  </connectionStrings>

Do you have an estimated resolution time?

We think that we have found the issue with Gemini and 64bit.

Can you please enter a license key via SQL?

ie:

update Geminiappsettings set settingvalue='xxx' where settingname='RegistrationCode'

then restart the server, does it work?