BSOD after CHKDSK: SESSION5_INITIALIZATION_FAILED (STOP: 0x00000071)

[Bruce A. Johnson]

I had this problem on a client's computer yesterday, and now again on my
computer today. The two computers are very different, but both have
Windows XP SP2 Home Edition, and are up-to-date with MS Updates.

Scheduled a Check Disk (CHKDSK) for the boot drive at next reboot.
CHKDSK works fine, reboots computer, then I get:

Blue Screen of Death:
SESSION5_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
*** STOP: 0x00000071 (0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000)

On rebooting, the startup menu allowing Safe Mode shows.

Safe Mode will NOT work. After awhile, it stalls, then just reboots the
computer without a BSOD.

If I try booting Windows normally, again the BSOD.

Starting Windows with last known good configuration works.

If I do a CHKDSK again on the boot drive, again the problem occurs.

There is nothing about the error in the Event Viewer. The Event Viewer
does show the results of the CHKDSK, and shows that it corrected errors:

Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 11 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 11 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 11 unused security descriptors.

I am assuming that Check Disk has messed up an important Win XP system
file, but how can I figure out which one so I can fix it?

And why should it happen on two very different computers at the same time?


- Bruce A. Johnson in Hardisty, Alberta, Canada
- (e-mail address removed)

 

[Guest]

I have the same error except the reboot into safe mode doesn't work at all.
The windows xp launches into safe mode automatically. I have the choices of
safe, safe w/ lan, safe w/ command prompt, and normal boot. I've tried all
the choices... the only result is that windows goes to back to reboot process
and goes back to the safe mode choices. Basically a reboot loop back to safe
mode choice screen.

When I tried to use the recovery disks to either repair or install, I get
the error stated above. The last function I had going before the crash was
chkdsk.

 

[Bruce A. Johnson]

I had this problem on a client's computer yesterday, and now again on
my computer today. The two computers are very different, but both
have Windows XP SP2 Home Edition, and are up-to-date with MS Updates.

Scheduled a Check Disk (CHKDSK) for the boot drive at next reboot.
CHKDSK works fine, reboots computer, then I get:

Blue Screen of Death:
SESSION5_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
*** STOP: 0x00000071 (0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000)

On rebooting, the startup menu allowing Safe Mode shows.

Safe Mode will NOT work. After awhile, it stalls, then just reboots
the computer without a BSOD.

If I try booting Windows normally, again the BSOD.

Starting Windows with last known good configuration works.

If I do a CHKDSK again on the boot drive, again the problem occurs.

There is nothing about the error in the Event Viewer. The Event
Viewer does show the results of the CHKDSK, and shows that it
corrected errors:

Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 11 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 11 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 11 unused security descriptors.

I am assuming that Check Disk has messed up an important Win XP system
file, but how can I figure out which one so I can fix it?

And why should it happen on two very different computers at the same
time?


- Bruce A. Johnson in Hardisty, Alberta, Canada
- (e-mail address removed)

I have just learned of a possible connection of this problem to ZoneAlarm
Internet Security Suite 6.5.

Do anyone else have this problem? Do you also have the latest version of
ZoneAlarm?

- Bruce A. Johnson in Hardisty, Alberta, Canada
- (e-mail address removed)

 

[Guest]

Over the past week, I've encountered the same problem w/XP Pro - BSOD after
CHKDSK, with the session5_initialization_failed message.

Note: This is similar to an old Windows 2000 problem (see MS KB article
887359)

I initially attributed the BSOD problem to one of the 11 XP updates
installed last week (June 13 update release). However, noting the last post
below, I also recently upgraded to Zone Alarm Pro 6.5.700. I don't recall if
I've run CHKDSK since this upgrade (o/a June 10). - probably, but not sure.

My solution (after lots of attempts): After BSOD, system automatically runs
whatever CHKDSK routine I selected again; I allow CHKDSK to finish, and
during the reboot I F8 to the options screen and boot in SAFE mode. System
takes 90 seconds - 2 minutes to boot to SAFE mode. I allow system to
stabilize in SAFE mode for about 2 minutes (disk activity stops), and then
shut down completely. After restart system boots normally.

I just upgraded Zone Alarm Pro to 6.5.714 after tedious recovery from last
BSOD. Have not run CHKDSK again. Probably will not until I get home o/a
July 4th. (This is too much trouble on the road).

Would like to know if this is a Windows patch problem, a Zone Alarm Pro
problem, both, or neither.

BTW, for Microsoft Info: Since SP2, I have never been able to install and
successfully boot into Recovery Console, in spite of extracting the new
CMDCONS from the SP2 i386 directory. Recovery console appears to properly
install, but always freezes-up when I try to enter. This makes recovery from
problems like this much more diffcult - esp. when I don't have an XP install
CD along.