Monday, May 07, 2007
Cardspace failures
Have you ever attempted to demo new technology and the system crashed? This happened to me not once but twice with Cardspace. In looking at Event viewer, the following is displayed in the log:
The interesting thing is that one cannot use control-alt-delete to bring up the Task Manager to abort the hung process nor when it crashes, the usual dialog about notifying Microsoft occurs. I really, really, really want to win the Microsoft contest but now need to figure out why this is occuring...
| | View blog reactions- Event Type: Error
Event Source: CardSpace 3.0.0.0
Event Category: General
Event ID: 256
Date: 5/2/2007
Time: 6:15:19 PM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: CORCT1CTOL1008
Description:
An error occurred when communicating with the Windows CardSpace service. Error obtaining client Process info.
Additional Information:
at System.Environment.GetStackTrace(Exception e, Boolean needFileInfo)
at System.Environment.get_StackTrace()
at Microsoft.InfoCards.Diagnostics.InfoCardTrace.BuildMessage(InfoCardBaseException ie)
at Microsoft.InfoCards.Diagnostics.InfoCardTrace.TraceAndLogException(Exception e)
at Microsoft.InfoCards.Diagnostics.InfoCardTrace.ThrowHelperError(Exception e)
at Microsoft.InfoCards.ClientRequest.GetCallingProcessFromRpcHandle(IntPtr RpcHandle)
at Microsoft.InfoCards.RequestFactory.CreateClientRequestInstance(UIAgentMonitorHandle monitorHandle, String reqName, IntPtr rpcHandle, Stream inStream, Stream outStream)
at Microsoft.InfoCards.RequestFactory.ProcessNewRequest(Int32 parentRequestHandle, IntPtr rpcHandle, IntPtr inArgs, IntPtr& outArgs)
The interesting thing is that one cannot use control-alt-delete to bring up the Task Manager to abort the hung process nor when it crashes, the usual dialog about notifying Microsoft occurs. I really, really, really want to win the Microsoft contest but now need to figure out why this is occuring...
