[Robster the Lobster]

My OS is Windows XP Home SP2 (fully updated)

In Event viewer / Application, I get the following warning every few minutes:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: EventSystem
Event Category: (52)
Event ID: 4356
Date: 15/02/2007
Time: 13:58:05
User: N/A
Computer: PECO
Description:
The COM+ Event System failed to create an instance of the subscriber partition:{41E90F3E-56C1-4633-81C3-6E8BAC8BDD70}!new:{58FC39EB-9DBD-4EA7-B7B4-9404CC6ACFAB}. CoGetObject returned HRESULT 80040154.

What does this mean? How can I solve this problem? Does the COM+ Event System have to be running on my PC or can I disable this service? I understand that it relates to SENS - what is that and do I need it running too? What is the meaning of life in the context of a runaway universe? (These and other questions are confusing me right now!)

Edited by Robster the Lobster, 15 February 2007 - 03:47 PM.

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831648
give that a read...that hotfix seems to apply

the meaning of life is 42

[dsenette]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831648
give that a read...that hotfix seems to apply

the meaning of life is 42

[Robster the Lobster]

uhhm ... thanks, but this Microsoft article is way over my head. I get the impression that it applies to a computer that's part of a network attached to a server (?) I'm a home user with an ADSL Internet connection. Is my PC a client computer? (I'm a complete rookie, you see!). Also, my error is different to the one quoted in the Microsoft hotfix article, which has this description:

"The COM+ Event System failed to create an instance of the subscriber {C2F23AE4-82D8-456F-A4AF-A2655D8CA726}. StandardCreateInstance returned HRESULT 8000401A."

My error message has this description:

"The COM+ Event System failed to create an instance of the subscriber partition:{41E90F3E-56C1-4633-81C3-6E8BAC8BDD70}!new:{58FC39EB-9DBD-4EA7-B7B4-9404CC6ACFAB}. CoGetObject returned HRESULT 80040154."

So even if I was clever enough to apply the hotfix (just reading the instructions turns my brain to scrambled egg), I doubt whether it is the right one!

Again: What is the COM+ Event System and do I need it running at all? And what is SENS?

(The meaning of life may have once been 42, but since Adams died, the universe has run away ... a long way away!)

[Robster the Lobster]

Interesting! I turned System Restore off, rebooted and then turned it on again, and now I'm not getting those error messages any more. Does that make sense? (What is a "subscriber partition" anyway, and what's the possible link with System Restore? Does COM+ Event System have any connection with System Restore?)

[dsenette]

hmm...i'm not sure of the "subscirber partition"...but i'll research today....i believe thta sys restore does interact with com+ (most things do)...but not sure on the direct connection...i'll see about researching for you today

[dsenette]

http://support.micro....com/kb/331697/
still no idea what the subscriber partition is...but...this claims that it should have been fixed in SP2...no real help here

[Robster the Lobster]

Yes, thanks, I'd read that article too. The event ID is the same as mine, but the HRESULT is different (I've no idea what that means, but thought I should point it out). Anyway, I'm no longer getting those application warnings. As I said before, they stopped after I turned off System Restore (thereby deleting all system restore points) and turned it on again. I don't even know whether whatever was initially causing the warnings was something to really worry about. It's all Greek to me!