MicroStation Exiting With Exception C0000005

[TJ McDermott]

My first MicroStation 95 user has started receiving the dialog box in
Win95:

MicroStation Exiting With Exception C0000005 (IP=60ba7f3d)

What does this mean, and how can I prevent it? The user thinks that it
might be occurring between a zoom and a move.

TJ McDermott
Food Machinery Sales
Athens, GA

[Jim Weisgram]

mcb...@athensnet.com (TJ McDermott) wrote:

>My first MicroStation 95 user has started receiving the dialog box in
>Win95:
>
>MicroStation Exiting With Exception C0000005 (IP=60ba7f3d)
>
>What does this mean, and how can I prevent it? The user thinks that it
>might be occurring between a zoom and a move.

[snip]

What does it mean? It means that something really bad has gone wrong.

Now, here are two possibilities:

1) Something bad happened to the design file
2) Something bad happened to the MicroStation installation itself.

If the problem seems local to a file or a few files, suspect #1. Try
to check the file with EDG, replace the file header (merge contents
into a new file) and so on. If that doesn't cure it, make sure that
the seed files and cell libraries check out OK with EDG.

If the problem seems to happen with all files, I would would suspect a
corrupt user preference file; even though this is supposed to be rare
nowadays. Try renaming the existing .upf file before launcing
MicroStation, to force it to create a new .upf file, and see if the
problem goes away. It is rare that you actually need to reload the
entire package, but sometimes it is easier to do that than to try to
fix all possibilities.

HTH

------------------------------
Jim Weisgram
Oregon Dept. of Transportation
(503)986-3211
email: james.d....@state.or.us

[David Langdon [Bentley]]

Jim Weisgram wrote:
->
-> mcb...@athensnet.com (TJ McDermott) wrote:
->
-> >My first MicroStation 95 user has started receiving the dialog box in
-> >Win95:
-> >
-> >MicroStation Exiting With Exception C0000005 (IP=60ba7f3d)
-> >
-> >What does this mean, and how can I prevent it? The user thinks that it
-> >might be occurring between a zoom and a move.
-> [snip]
->
-> What does it mean? It means that something really bad has gone wrong.
->
-> Now, here are two possibilities:
->
-> 1) Something bad happened to the design file
-> 2) Something bad happened to the MicroStation installation itself.
-> [snip]

TJ:

Jim gives some good hints. One other possibilityis that you may actually have
found a problem within MicroStation 95. Can you supply us with a little more
information to see if we can reproduce the problem here?

- When exactly does it happen (sequence of events)?
- Is it specific to one machine or design file? If so can we get the DGN file
or more info about the specific machine?

Thanks, Dave

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[Rob Schafer]

Speaking of "Exception C00000005":

I run MicroStation NT 05.00.95.whatever-the-latest-is under 3.51 and can
get a C00000005 exception consistently by:

1) Starting up the Windows "Clock" (in the Accessories Program Group),
2) turning on the clock's "Always On Top" attribute,
3) starting up MicroStation and dragging a uStn dialog into the same area
as the clock. Boom.

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[Matt Stone [Bentley]]

Rob Schafer wrote:
>
> Speaking of "Exception C00000005":
>
> I run MicroStation NT 05.00.95.whatever-the-latest-is under 3.51 and can
> get a C00000005 exception consistently by:
>
> 1) Starting up the Windows "Clock" (in the Accessories Program Group),
> 2) turning on the clock's "Always On Top" attribute,
> 3) starting up MicroStation and dragging a uStn dialog into the same area
> as the clock. Boom.

Rob,

I was able to reproduce this with MicroStation V5. Pretty strange! I also
gave this a try with MicroStation 95 on the same machine and I had no
problems. So I'm sure you'll be relieved to hear, you can have your clock
open all the time with no worries using MicroStation 95.

Matt

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