Windows error 0x80190194, -2145844844

iisexpress.exe started crashing with Access Violation in IsLocalRequest call

with the new 171010-1400 Windows build and Visual Studio Update 4 my previously working config went haywire. As I see from the windbg output, somehow iisexpress.exe fails on the first or the second request, I guess it is in connection with setting a cookie. All I see from the debug [...] read more

Windows Update can't install Windows Vista SP1

If you install Windows Vista RTM and run Windows Update, many updates are offered and will successfully install. Once all other updates are installed, Windows Vista service pack 1 is offered. When you attempt to install Windows Vista service pack 1, the service pack installation wizard appears, presenting the license [...] read more

Windows server 2012 Sub CA fails because the revocation was offline when using root CA certificate from Linux/OpenSSL root CA

I've been working on a lab setting up a two-tier PKI using a Linux (Debian 9 with OpenSSL) root certificate authority and a Windows server 2012 R2 subordinate certificate authority. When I attempt to install the the signed subordinate certificate on the Windows server I first get a warning stating [...] read more

Force WinDbg to load pdb using `.reload` is not working

I have a dump collected for my executable App.exe: App.DMP Unfortunately, we didn't save the .pdb for this specific build, but since we have build number we could rebuild the same version and reconstruct the .pdb This didn't help and I couldn't load the symbols with Visual Studio. So I [...] read more

Microsoft symbols don't get downloaded - 404 error

The Microsoft symbol servers are online but somehow I am not able to download any symbols. I tried to narrow it down to following POC. It should just download the symbols of aadtb.dll but it returns a HTTP_STATUS_NOT_FOUND. symchk /v /r c:\windows\system32\aadtb.dll /s SRV*c:\symbols*https://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols Alternatively, I tried downloading the pdb [...] read more

!process 0 0 - NT symbols are incorrect, please fix symbols

I get the same error when using !process 0 0 every time - being in kernel debug mode or not doesn't seem to change anything. Here's a command chain while opening notepad.exe Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 10.0.20153.1000 AMD64 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. CommandLine: C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe ************* Path [...] read more

signtool.exe fails with: "SignerTimeStampEx2() failed." (-2145844844/0x80190194) when signing executable

I'm using signtool to sign an executable on Windows 10, using a GlobalSign certificate. This has worked like a charm for years. Recently it has stopped working. Using the following command line: signtool.exe sign /a /v /n SomeName /tr http://timestamp.globalsign.com/scripts/timstamp.dll some.exe I see that the correct certificate is selected, but [...] read more

Windows Debugger(Windbg) unable to load Symbols for SQL Dump File

I am troubleshooting am issue with an automated job that rebuilds our indexes and text search. The Specific error: 2020-04-08 02:46:16.29 spid56 Timeout occurred while waiting for latch: class 'FCB', id 0000000629898238, type 3, Task 0x0000000633017C28 : 0, waittime 300 seconds, flags 0x2000000019, owning task 0x0000000624023C28. Continuing to wait. My [...] read more

Visual Studio Community 2017 version 15.9.2 unable to load symbols from the Microsoft symbol server

I am using Visual Studio Community 2017 version 15.9.2 and I am trying to debug something in C#. I wanted to load symbols but my symbol cache is totally empty despite me having configured Visual Studio correctly. enter image description here [https://i.stack.imgur.com/LAwzV.png] When I explicitly load symbols for the Unity.Mvc.dll [...] read more

how to fix "Failed to request MethodData, not in JIT code range" error

0:000> g TTD: End of trace reached. (1fe4.59dc): Break instruction exception - code 80000003 (first/second chance not available) Time Travel Position: 33D60F:0 clr!MetaData::TableRO::GetRecord+0x3: 00007ffb`97c3b863 48895808 mov qword ptr [rax+8],rbx ds:00000000`0014bc70=000000003530bb58 Here's the stack trace: 0:000> k # Child-SP RetAddr Call Site 00 00000000`0014bc68 00007ffb`97c46dfd clr!MetaData::TableRO::GetRecord+0x3 01 00000000`0014bc70 00007ffb`97d6b79b clr!MDInternalRO::GetParentToken+0xe9 02 [...] read more

Trying to run websocket server from my local PC

I am trying to develop a web-socket server app for my UWP Windows 10 App. This is my code: class Server { public async void Start() { MessageWebSocket webSock = new MessageWebSocket(); //In this case we will be sending/receiving a string so we need to set the MessageType to Utf8. [...] read more

I see my clients in AD but not in WSUS

I set up a WSUS but dont see any clients in the Unassigned Computers group. I can find my clients in the ADAC, when I select myWSUS (local) > computers. My group policy management got a domain myWSUS.local but I dont see the groups here, is this maybe the problem? [...] read more

Bitsadmin Download Error

I saw a feed referring to downloading via bitsadmin (v.7.5.7601.17514) on Windows 7. I have trouble implementing this myself and continue to get errors when running the code when running from a batch file(which is my requirement) Errorcode: 0x80190194 Error Context: 0x00000005 The code is as follows: bitsadmin.exe /Transfer myDownloadJob [...] read more

Windows XP update not working

I have a problem with XP updating. It hangs when I try to search for updates on the website. But the automatic updates still work. And it's running IE6, so I'm trying to update to IE8, hoping that will fix the problems with the website. But when installing IE8 it [...] read more

Using embedded symbols with WinDbg

I've compiled my assemby with embedded symbols: namespace SymbolsTest { static class Program { private static void Main() { var now = System.DateTime.Now; System.Console.WriteLine($"Now: {now}"); } } } csc SymbolsTest.cs /target:exe /platform:x64 /debug+ /debug:embedded /out:SymbolsTest_x64.exe When I try to load the symbols in WinDbg, I get an error in the [...] read more

LoadListingInformationAsync: 0x80190194 Not found (404)

We have submitted a UWP app, built using the Windows 8.1 SDK, to the Windows Store, published with the 'Private Audience' option. We observe that LoadListingInformationAsync (in the CurrentApp class) throws a 0x80190194 Not found (404) exception. This happens regardless whether we run the project in Visual Studio or whether [...] read more

WinDbg Unknown Method Names

I am trying to work out what code is causing our application to crash using WinDbg. We have the .pdb symbols for our compiled application in the following folder: E:\MyApplication In order to load the symbols we set the symbol path to: E:\MyApplication;srv*E:\Symbols*https://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols; This should load our local pdb files [...] read more

Download image from a website using Batch

I have a .bat file that is supposed to download an image from a website and save it somewhere on your computer using Bitsadmin, but whenever I try to run it, I get this error: DISPLAY: JOB TYPE: DOWNLOAD STATE: ERROR PRIORITY: NORMAL FILES: 0 / 1 BYTES: 0 / [...] read more

Asynchronous FileIO methods mixing up images in WinRT application

So I have a method implemented in my application that downloads images for a given manga from a site, and places said images into the app's AppData (localstate) folder, in a language folder inside a title folder. Image downloading works perfectly, aside from the fact that, if I try download [...] read more

batch bitstransfer url with white spaces

I have a batch file. I use it to download installers (vlc.exe, VC++ 2008 redistributable package vcredist_x86.exe, etc) from web. Recently I downloaded VC++ 2008 redistributable package and it worked fine with this syntax: Import-Module BitsTransfer; Start-BitsTransfer '%URL%' '%downloadPath%' I set the VC++ 2008 download link in URL and C:\Temp [...] read more