Deactivation tool

coalesce

Hi,

I have been having a problem with the deactivation tool.

If I try and run the tool from a network location, it crashes immediately.

I was struggling with this until I tried copying the file to my local machine, and then when I tried to run it, it worked fine, so that's a perfectly good workaround, but I thought I should report the bug anyway.

The error produced the following event in the Application Event Log:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: .NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting
Event Category: None
Event ID: 5000
Date: 09/05/2008
Time: 11:21:06
User: N/A
Computer: MYMACHINE
Description:
EventType clr20r3, P1 deactivate.exe, P2 2.5.0.208, P3 4766ab92, P4 deactivate, P5 2.5.0.208, P6 4766ab92, P7 1f, P8 c, P9 system.security.security, P10 NIL.

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Data:
0000: 63 00 6c 00 72 00 32 00 c.l.r.2.
0008: 30 00 72 00 33 00 2c 00 0.r.3.,.
0010: 20 00 64 00 65 00 61 00 .d.e.a.
0018: 63 00 74 00 69 00 76 00 c.t.i.v.
0020: 61 00 74 00 65 00 2e 00 a.t.e...
0028: 65 00 78 00 65 00 2c 00 e.x.e.,.
0030: 20 00 32 00 2e 00 35 00 .2...5.
0038: 2e 00 30 00 2e 00 32 00 ..0...2.
0040: 30 00 38 00 2c 00 20 00 0.8.,. .
0048: 34 00 37 00 36 00 36 00 4.7.6.6.
0050: 61 00 62 00 39 00 32 00 a.b.9.2.
0058: 2c 00 20 00 64 00 65 00 ,. .d.e.
0060: 61 00 63 00 74 00 69 00 a.c.t.i.
0068: 76 00 61 00 74 00 65 00 v.a.t.e.
0070: 2c 00 20 00 32 00 2e 00 ,. .2...
0078: 35 00 2e 00 30 00 2e 00 5...0...
0080: 32 00 30 00 38 00 2c 00 2.0.8.,.
0088: 20 00 34 00 37 00 36 00 .4.7.6.
0090: 36 00 61 00 62 00 39 00 6.a.b.9.
0098: 32 00 2c 00 20 00 31 00 2.,. .1.
00a0: 66 00 2c 00 20 00 63 00 f.,. .c.
00a8: 2c 00 20 00 73 00 79 00 ,. .s.y.
00b0: 73 00 74 00 65 00 6d 00 s.t.e.m.
00b8: 2e 00 73 00 65 00 63 00 ..s.e.c.
00c0: 75 00 72 00 69 00 74 00 u.r.i.t.
00c8: 79 00 2e 00 73 00 65 00 y...s.e.
00d0: 63 00 75 00 72 00 69 00 c.u.r.i.
00d8: 74 00 79 00 20 00 4e 00 t.y. .N.
00e0: 49 00 4c 00 0d 00 0a 00 I.L.....

Thanks,

Gareth

Michelle T

.NET applications in general don't like being run from network locations. Unfortunately, since the deactivation tool is a .NET application, it can't be run from a network location either. Do you think there should be some kind of documentation of this problem, and if so where? (Having it crash more gracefully isn't an option, but advice on the page you download it on might be.)