Application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000006)

[Patrick Barlis]

Our Windows 2000 Terminal Server clients are
intermittently getting Event ID 26 error ("The application
failed to initialize properly (0xc0000006)") when
executing an application exe file on a shared folder
located in one of the local drives of the Windows 2000
Terminal Server. The shared folder (i.e. N:\apps) is
mapped to a logical drive G: for all the terminal server
clients.

Intermittently on a busy day, executing G:\file1.exe
results to an Event ID 26 error while executing
N:\apps\file1.exe works fine.

Appreciate any help.

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

Which SP do you run on the server?

 

[Dave Maier]

I am having the same problem with an installation of Terminal Services on
Server 2000. We're running SP4. Different users at different times will get
messages that the application is unable to initialize. They may try three
or four times; they may reboot a time or two. For no apparent reason it will
then work again.

It occurs to all users at one time or another. In our case we are using
drive D:\apps which is mapped as drive H:

Any help would be appreciated.

Dave Maier

 

[Patrick Barlis]

SP3 on Windows 2000.
Citrix Metaframe 1.8 for Windows 2000 is loaded on this
server with Citrix SP3.

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

Can you test if the problem disappears with SP4?
There's a post-SP3 hotfix that fixed a printing problem from a
mapped network drive (hotfix is included in SP4). When SP3 had
just been released, a lot of people reported not only problems
with printing from mapped network drives, but also running
applications from them.

328020 - Redirected Printing Through a Terminal Services Session
May Not Work with Windows 2000 SP3
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=328020

I presume that the general performance of the server is still
reasonably good when this happens and there is no limit on the
number of connections to the network share?

 

[Patrick Barlis]

Can I just apply the post SP3 HOT FIX (Q328020) and see if
this fixes the problem? Not ready yet to install Windows
2000 SP4 on a Citrix Metaframe 1.8 W2K server as I heard
it is causing some issues.

Also - I am not sure if this is enough for you - there is
a post in this thread (Dave Maier's)indicating the same
problem and they are running SP4 on their W2K server..

Appreciate your help.

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

Sure, you can phone Microsoft Support and ask for the hotfix only.
Note that this suggestion is a rather wild guess from my side.
There could be a lot of other causes as well.
Are there any other symptoms when this occurs? Since you mention
that this happens when the server is rather busy, you might also
check this pre-SP5 hotfix:

813130 - A Computer May Lose Network Connectivity Under High
Stress
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813130

 

[Patrick Barlis]

I installed HOT FIX 328020 but the application is still
giving the same error (failed to initialize properly
0xc0000006). Clients are not losing connectivity to the
server so I think 813130 - A Computer May Lose Network
Connectivity Under High Stress - is not applicable.

 

[Patrick Barlis]

I just found the Microsoft KB article 818528 "Problems
When More Than One User Accesses the Same File Through
Terminal Services". This article refers also to MS KB
article 294816 which discussed the error 'c0000006'. I
have just installed the hot fix provided by Microsoft for
this article (818528) and hopefully this fixes our problem.

 

[Patrick Barlis]

I found this MS KB Article 818528 - I just applied the hot
fix. I am not sure yet if it fixes our problem.

Patrick