Friday, August 09, 2013

Oracle BI Publisher Desktop Microsoft Visual Basic System Error &H8000FFFF -2147418113 Catastrophic failure

Not too sure what I changed on my laptop, possibly just installation of another product or perhaps Microsoft or similar updates, but when I went to edit a BI Publisher RTF template I got the following error message on clicking ANY button in the BI Publisher plugin for Microsoft Word.

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Microsoft Visual Basic
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System Error &H8000FFFF (-2147418113). Catastrophic failure 
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OK   Help   
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After quite a bit of researching, I found the solution, for me it was the second of the following fixes:

1. Delete the EXD files. I attempted this in the root of my C:\ and D:\ drives, but it didn't fix the error.

DEL /S /A:H /A:-H *.EXD

2. Change security setting, and then reboot Windows.

2a. For Windows 32bit:

Regsvr32 "C:\Windows\System32\MSCOMCTL.OCX"

2b. For Windows 64bit:

Regsvr32 "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\MSCOMCTL.OCX"

Problem solved!

Catch ya!

Gareth

This is a post from Gareth's blog at http://garethroberts.blogspot.com

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