Re: ie6sp1 : Repair Function Blocked - Anyone know of a fix?
From: den (eponymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/12/04
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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:39:39 +0100
Robert Aldwinckle wrote:
> "den" <eponymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:OIqVk9xdEHA.3148@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl
> ...
>> a) Prospective Ram Problem in a dependent module.
>>
>> - Nothing showed under Dr Watson
>> - <<Return Code 0cx0000005>> didn't figure as a page fault (it looks
>> very similar to the references given to entry points in Dependency
>> Walker, though I have run through the various dependencies and been
>> unable to locate it.) - Have run extensive tests via a RAM
>> diagnostic software programme - including multiple pass burn in
>> tests etc - and no problems showed.
>
> That sounds good. I still think that that 0xc0000005 represents a
> page
> fault though. It may have been trapped so Dr Watson wasn't called.
> An example of what the code might have been to have caused such a
> thing
> is: assuming the existence of a pointer and then trying to use it
> without testing somehow for its validity. The code fortunately
> protected itself from crashing the program completely but hasn't left
> sufficient diagnostics about the error/recovery situation to allow
> you to figure out what needs to be repaired. That is why we need to
> trace the flow up to the crash.
>
> Unfortunately I have never used your OS or its Dr Watson so I can
> only go
> by analogy from previous experience with Dr Watson under Windows
> 3.1. ;o
> There IIRC there was a way to increase the sensitivity to page
> faults
> and even report all of them. I think it involved editing an .ini
> file.
> Does the offline help give you any clues about how you could do
> something
> like that? BTW I'm only suggesting Dr Watson because I know that
> it is a standard tool. If you have something like Visual Studio
> you
> could use its debugger instead.
>
>
> There is the still the other alternative that I suggested: using
> FileMon
> to get a list of .dlls accessed when the regsvr32 /i /n
> digest.dll runs
> on both systems. It wouldn't be as reliable a list as a Stack Back
> Trace
> from a dump would be but you would undoubtedly have different
> lists from both systems and thus have something new to look at.
>
> Hmm... apparently I have a digest.dll on my system too,
> undoubtedly not the same but perhaps similar enough.
> Anyway, start FileMon; press Ctrl-L to set the filters.
> I used Include: regsvr32*dll Highlight: digest.dll
> Then Run... regsvr32 /i /n digest.dll
> Stop the trace when you get the prompt that regsvr32
> was successful (for the good case) and when you get
> whatever the symptom you get for the bad case.
>
> Look after the highlighted lines (i.e. after digest.dll entries)
> FWIW I see: rpcss.dll, security.dll, SECUR32.dll after them.
> There's more of course but I think that they will be for when the
> prompt was being generated.
>
> Even if you don't do the FileMon traces and comparisons
> yourself it could be worthwhile to compare the properties
> of those three modules on both systems and perhaps
> replace them.
>
>
> Good luck
>
> Robert
> ---
Robert,
Just to let you know a clean install W98SE/ie6sp1 finally did the trick and
to thank you for all your help.
Very best wishes,
Denis
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