I have solved an horrible problem so I think this may be useful…
All of a sudden, I couldn’t log into Designer.
Yesterday everything was fine, tomorrow, after entering my pwd, the dreaded BUG window appeared.
Unhandled Exception Error, access violation C000005… and a lot of infos about the stack trace.
MFC42 was used, kernel32.dll…
over and over. A deadline is approaching.
I tried with no effect to replace the dll’s, the exe’s… no luck.
Reinstalling BO was not an option.
I solved the problem, and thought it may be worthwhile to share how.
BEWARE, my solution implies modification of the registry, so it may be dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing. If there’s a problem, you’re on your own.It worked fine for me, I don’t assure it works for you. OK, I warned you, let’s go to work. 8)
A note: I have seen a sort a FAQ on the Access Viol error, but it’s under Reporter, and I think
this is a Designer related problem. If you’re the manager of that FAQ and think it may be useful, please feel free to add the article.
This is what I did:
1 opened REGEDIT.
2 gone to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Business Objects
3 renamed to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Business Objects_bak
4 started Designer
5 logged in
6 exhulted in happiness because it logged it without problems
7 shut down Designer.
8 opened regedit
9 there was a brand new HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Business Objects: selected it
10 File->Export, exported to a new .reg file, say newbo.reg
11 gone to regedit
12 deleted HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Business Objects
13 renamed HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Business Objects_bak to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Business Objects
14 double clicked newbo.reg, YES, importing the data back to registry
now the new, correct registry data has been overwritten over the old corrupted one
15 said a prayer
16 started designer and enjoyed it!
Obviously Designer, on the last session messed up some data on its registry settings.
Hope it may help someone,
cheers.
m.
mark_it (BOB member since 2002-11-21)