help! WMI Error driving me nuts!

[Eric]

Hi all,

I've searched the boards, can't find any solid answers.

Once or twice a day I'm getting a series of around 10 or so WMI dr. watsons
or "WMI has encountered a problem and cannot run". First of all.. what is
WMI and why is it showing me this error 10 times in a row in 30 second
intervals?

here are the specifics:

szAppName : wmiprvse.exe szAppVer : 5.1.2600.1106
szModName : kernel32.dll szModVer : 5.1.2600.1106 offset : 00012b5a

thanks let me know if anyone can help me out.

regards,

Eric

 

[Kelly]

Hi Eric,

From a previous post:

WMIPRVSE hosts the provider that sends your events on WinXP. What may help
(at least with XP) is that you can specify the wbemConnectFlagUseMaxWait
which will cause the timeout to be 2 mins instead of the default DCOM one
which is up to 20 mins.

WMI relies on DCOM for remoting which in turn uses RPC which then uses
TCP/IP, so there could be several reasons why it isn't connecting initially.

Suggestions:

1 - In the Management Console\Services STOP WMI and set to manual.
2 - Go to the WMI repository %Windows%system32%wbem and delete the
repository.
3 -Set the WMI service back to Automatic
4 - From %Windows%system32%wbem run "wbemtest" and connect to your
namespace.
5 - Run regedt32.exe. Locate current HKEY_Current_Config. Go down the tree
to System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class. The open the class key and right
click on the sub key 0000 and select permissions and make sure that the
permissions for you [administrator] are "Full".

 

[Josh]

I too am receiving this same error at random times during
the day. Sometimes it's happens every 30 sec (which I
assume is because WMI polls a folder C:\%Windows Root%
\System32\wbem\repository ) but other times it just
happens once or twice. I have tried restarting the
service and stopping it to clear out the repository
folder which automatically is restored after rebooting,
but I cannot get rid of the error. Any and all help
regarding this topic would be greatly appreciated. Thanks