Sharepoint 2010 Secure Store: An error occurred during the “Generate Key” process. Please try again or contact your administrator | Sharepoint Consultant, Automation & Stuff

Sharepoint 2010 Secure Store: An error occurred during the “Generate Key” process. Please try again or contact your administrator | Sharepoint Consultant, Automation & Stuff: "– In my case the ‘Sharepoint Webservices Root’ application pool had stopped on one of my app servers
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Reporting Service doesn't appear under services on sharepoint 2013

Installed SQL Server 2012 reporting service with SP1 however the SQL reporting service is not shown under the manage services on server page, some mentioned that you might have to reinstall SP1 however I wasn't able to do that since it is already SP1.

finally I started the central administration service on the reporting server and access the central admin page from there, wow....it finally works. not sure why yet.