The 4 'R's of fixing Windows.

[sobrique]

Now it's a long standing joke that there's the 4 'R's of fixing windows.

Reboot
Reinstall
Rebuild
Reformat.

I've now hit R3 here with this error:

"Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0115'

Unexpected error

/amreports/reporttree.asp

A trappable error (E06D7363) occurred in an external object. The script cannot continue running.
"

This is the only information I have regarding this problem. Even in the event log, this is only repeated (well, that's not entirely true. There's a link to the M$ knowledge base, that has no useful information other than 'its usually related to security')

Each time I'm involved with a complicated Windows problem, I am reminded how much I despise this piece of shit software.

Edit: Apparantly this problem is caused by some of the files in a directory it tries to index. If you delete them, and restart the system it'll be fine.
Fer FUCKS SAKE in what way is that considered acceptable behaviour of any product or system?

Comments

[the-wood-gnome.livejournal.com]

*points toward the word MICROSOFT*

[(Anonymous)]

Can you tell me what "tried to index"?
I'm getting a the same error on another piece of ASP code and of course microsoft has nothing to offer.
Indexing service is off so I really don't know what to look for. thanks.

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

The problem in this case, was one of our dynamic content directories with a 'corrupt' (read "too long") filename.

This error does appear to be the IIS equivalent of a general protection fault however, so YMMV.

I saw suggestions that it was anything from 'indexing service' to 'permissions problems'. The latter being the most common, and including the varius IUSR_* accounts not having the right access to directories eg. for creating files.

HTH.

Ed.