[python-win32] pythoncom error -2147180508. What is it?

[Joss Gray]

Thanks, for some reason I couldn't find anything with google.

Turns out it is a bug with windows, hotfix here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2530185

Thanks.

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On 1 April 2014 12:22, Rod Person <rodperson at rodperson.com> wrote:

> On 04/01/2014 6:52 AM, Joss Gray wrote:
>
>> I'm using the awesome wmi package in my application which I understand
>> uses pythoncom.
>>
>> I'm using wmi to perform operations like setting the IP of a network
>> adapter, reading various bits of system information.
>>
>> I'm finding that once in a while calls start failing with an error -
>> 2147180508 ( 0x8004A024 ). I can't find any reference to this error
>> anywhere in the COM Error Codes documentation here
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/
>> dd542642(v=vs.85).aspx <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
>> us/library/windows/desktop/dd542642%28v=vs.85%29.aspx>
>>
>>
>> Has anyone observed anything similar?
>>
>
> Quickly, searching duckduck go for - COM ERROR-2147180508, seems to point
> to some kind of MDT error with the network adapter, although I don't know
> what MDT stands for in this case.
>
> --
> Rod
>
> So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth,
> accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.
>   -Thucydides
>       History of The Peloponnesian War, 432BC
>
>
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