It’s been a while since I had to deal with Citrix – metaframe 3.5 was the last I had used. Now they’re on XenApp 6, XenDesktop 5, and Xenserver something or other. But this problem has to do with the Citrix Licensing server

Version according to Citrix’s website: 11.6.1 for Windows
Version according to Add Remove Programs: 7.1.10007
Meh.

Anyway, after a forced reboot of the server, it looked like the SQL table/database for the licensing server was corrupted. The Citrix Licensing server would not start and it was throwing off an error 1067:
Error 1000 in the eventviewer - Faulting application name: lmadmin.exe, version:0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4a01594d.
Could not start the Citrix Licensing Service on Local Computer. Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly

I tried the “remove all of your license files and try to start the service” technique. I also tried re-downloading the citrix_startup.lic file and the opt file. No dice.

Uninstall and reinstall the License server. It even leaves your licenses in place. Then it worked like magic.