Windows error 0xFFFFFBF8, -1032

Error occurred while opening logfile C:\Windows\system32\LogFiles\Sum\Api.log

I need to restart the MS SQL server service every morning because my web client site can not connect. However, when I start my services it works. I don't know what is causing the problem. I found this in my error log. sqlservr (4052) An attempt to open the file [...] read more

What is SRUJet?

I see in Event log many error entries : > svchost (1500) SRUJet: An attempt to open the file > "C:\Windows\system32\SRU\SRUDB.dat" for read / write access failed with system > error 5 (0x00000005): "Access is denied. ". The open file operation will fail > with error -1032 (0xfffffbf8). The key [...] read more

ESENT fails to determine the minimum I/O block size

I'm trying to get RavenDB running in embedded mode on a shared/multi-tenant webhost. RavenDB relies on the ESENT storage API. The filesystem on the hosting machines is locked down. The RavenDB Initialize() call results in the following eventlog entry Raven (20604) D:\Path\To\Website\App_Data\RavenDB\Data52e0e402-79d7-4f47-a219-3d1e2e73321c: An attempt to determine the minimum I/O block [...] read more

VSS writer NTDS State 11 failed and other writers state 5

We use Altaro VMBackup V7.0.20.3 to back up some VMs hosted on a single Hyper-V Host running Windows Server 2012 R2. One of the VMs running Windows Server 2008 gets the following error after the backup completes: > A Shadow Copy of the host was taken successfully, but an internal [...] read more

If ESENT complains that it cannot create its logfile, is it avoidable?

In my installation of Windows 10 on a fairly new machine that shipped with it, I get a lot of errors in my eventvwr log, and some of them I feel are indicative of why my system hits 100% disk use for about 10 minutes at a time on boot. [...] read more

Altaro backup warning

I have a VM, which was originally running on Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role. The guest was a Server 2012 which was just serving as a domain controller (a backup one to the SBS 2011 server running on another physical machine). I moved the VM by shutting [...] read more

Semihosting printf fails in _malloc_r

I'm trying to get a minimal project with printf semihosting (printf over JTAG) working on a STM32F746NG Discovery development board and I'm running into trouble when printf is called. I'm at a loss for how to proceed in debugging this issue. Here's the symptoms. The HardFault_Handler is called from _malloc_r [...] read more

How can I group-objects in powershell that are *almost* the same?

I am trying to get a count of events in the event log, using the following: get-eventlog application -Entrytype Error -After (Get-Date).AddDays(-7) | group-object -property eventID, source, message However, because there is a timestamp in the message of some of the event messages, they don't group properly. (OK technically they [...] read more

Database file is being used by another process

We are running an Exchange 2010 SP3 UR27 environment on Windows Server 2008 R2. I am aware that support for Exchange 2010 is ending soon, and we are planning to migrate to a newer platform before then. I am seeing issues with database files being in use by another process, [...] read more

Remote Desktop Services stopped working after domain change

I had Remote Desktop Services (RD Session Host deployment) functioning properly on the Windows Server 2012 R2. The server had to be moved to another domain. That went well but now Remote Desktop Services completely lost the configuration which I expected. I tried removing the roles and features and adding [...] read more