I was chasing a chkdsk error, but Windows Logs Application showed me 17 SideBySide errors:


Activation context generation failed for "C:\Program Files (x86)\K-Meleon\k-meleon.exe".Error in manifest or policy file "" on line . A component version required by the application conflicts with another component version already active. Conflicting components are:. Component 1: C:\Windows\WinSxS\manifests\x86_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.7601.17514_none_41e6975e2bd6f2b2.manifest. Component 2: C:\Windows\WinSxS\manifests\amd64_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.7601.17514_none_fa396087175ac9ac.manifest.

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">;
- <System>
<Provider Name="SideBySide" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49409">80</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-10-12T10:58:16.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>67717</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Ummmm</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data>C:\Windows\WinSxS\manifests\x86_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.7601.17514_none_41e6975e2bd6f2b2.manifest</Data>
<Data>C:\Windows\WinSxS\manifests\amd64_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.7601.17514_none_fa396087175ac9ac.manifest</Data>
<Data />
<Data />
<Data />
<Data />
<Data />
<Data />
<Data />
<Data />
<Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\K-Meleon\k-meleon.exe</Data>
<Data />
<Data />
<Data />
<Data />
<Data />
<Data />
<Data />
<Data />
<Data />
</EventData>
</Event>


If you need further info about my box/OS, let me know. I do suspect most of it happened as I was trying to get rvjmimedit-km74 to work, but I have no evidence.

Gordon.

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Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic. [Florence Ambrose, "Freefall" 01372 January 22, 2007 http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1400/fv01372.htm]



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/12/2014 11:26AM by gordon451.

OK, solved it. Well, sort of. I'm afraid the devs have to do the fix.

See http://www.mazecomputer.com/sxs/help/whatis.htm for a description; also https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-system/event-id-33-and-80-sidebyside-errors/9ad6156c-f77c-4b7d-a991-7db209947c5b for tracing solutions and a mention of

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Microsoft Visual C++ version not being backward compatible with the application that failed

; and http://www.eventid.net/display-eventid-80-source-SideBySide-eventno-10679-phase-1.htm for more info.

At some stage later today/this evening I'll run the SxsTrace Trace -logfilexsTrace.etl which should be on this machine.

Gotta run--work calls

Gordon.

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Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic. [Florence Ambrose, "Freefall" 01372 January 22, 2007 http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1400/fv01372.htm]

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gordon451

Activation context generation failed for "C:\Program Files (x86)\K-Meleon\k-meleon.exe".Error in manifest or policy file "" on line . A component version required by the application conflicts with another component version already active. Conflicting components are:. Component 1: C:\Windows\WinSxS\manifests\/x86_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.7601.17514_none_41e6975e2bd6f2b2.manifest. Component 2: C:\Windows\WinSxS\manifests\/amd64_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.7601.17514_none_fa396087175ac9ac.manifest


Snip....

I do suspect most of it happened as I was trying to get rvjmimedit-km74 to work, but I have no evidence.

Well, one of the mysteries of Windows again. K-Meleon.exe is a 32 bit not a 64 bit application. But maybe a dev reads something else or something more out of this tea cup.

rvjmimedit

K-Meleon version 0.6 K. Updated CSS and code to play with 74/esr24. 12th.10.2014, guenter. To do. Preview existing MIMEtypes, edit them (will work when they are shown) and change ID and name of addon to someting like MIMETypeeditor@kmeleon.org. Then alter credits from my name to another/whoever does it. I will fix the German translation if we ever get that far. :drool:

That was in reach for people like me that can only do html.

Now You need someone with sound JS knowledge that can fix that the items do not show and a better working JS Console² that shows why that feature does not work.

And I need someone that tells me how I ever used this editor. I have forgotten it. :O



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/13/2014 06:53AM by guenter.

Hi guenter -

Strike out anything I said about SideBySide and rvjmimedit-km74: after a refreshing day spent stopping big trucks (read: 18-wheelers) by standing in front of them, I realise the only connection to rvjmimedit-km74 is that I was stopping and restarting K-Meleon many times...

And the dead-give-away is in the Error description:

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Error in manifest or policy file "" on line .

which matches perfectly with the sources I referenced.

With different software (EventID.Net is pointing at Adobe) I would be heaping plenty of raspberries (dunno what youse call it in German, but in English you stick your tongue out and blow past it ) at the devs. But I understand our devs are overworked, underpaid and totally deserving of our sympathy.

The fact is that Windows is enormously complicated, and browsers only marginally less so. I'm sure that somebody will soon figure out which manifest needs a rewrite, and that's one less problem.

Thanks for the attachments, I'll have a play, and I think I may have worked out how to populate MimeType.rdf. The weekend is looking good so far

Gordon.

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Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic. [Florence Ambrose, "Freefall" 01372 January 22, 2007 http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1400/fv01372.htm]



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/13/2014 09:18AM by gordon451.

AFAIR I have attached a mimetypes.rdf in the other forum. It is fairly populated. Some versions ago K-Meleons came with such by default. That is where it is from.

Currently we are better off with the old MIMETypes editors and 1.5.4 or 1.6 because there we can see what we are doing. But maybe we find a way to debug this and then we would have a addon that nobody has anymore and be able to write new mimetypes.rdfs.

After that /then/ You can tell me how it works.


p.s. I installed it in FirefoxESR 24 plus console².

Error: TypeError: myhPrefWindow.pref is null
SourceFile: chrome://rvjmimeedit/content/pref/nsPrefWindow.js
line: 127

So it is as assumed. JS console has problems.
And the error is above my knowledge to fix. Possibly wrong.

See comment and attachment.

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Update Release Notes
Version 0.6.1 K - 13 October 2014, Preview existing MIMETypes fixed.
Removed loked state that was only used when the code that drives the addon was used to work with browser prefs.

It is nevertheless a cludgy hack based on the idea that the code was multy purpose and loked state is not used anymore. No warranties that this addon and code works on another PC than mine.

Unpack and place in ./K-Meleon/Macros. Submenu in Help.

The rest goes unpacked to an extension location.



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 10/13/2014 10:05PM by guenter.

I've copied this SideBySide error to "Bugs", complete with a SxsTrace log. It really is something that should be attended to.

Gordon.

____________________
Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic. [Florence Ambrose, "Freefall" 01372 January 22, 2007 http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1400/fv01372.htm]