Error Initializing Vault in ComInit()

[Noble Bell]

I am using Vault Client version 4_1_2_18185. I have been using it without any problems since September of last year. Today, I started getting the following error when loading Visual Studio: A dialog box pops up when I start loading my project that is under source control and says: "Error Initializing Vault in ComInit(): Configuration system failed to initialize.". I tried to load the Vault Client and it would not load and run either. It popped up a window wanting to send an error report to Microsoft. I have un-installed and re-installed three times and I get the same results. I am using XP Pro SP-3 and the latest version of the .Net Framework on Visual Studio 2005. I am at a loss can someone offer me some suggestions here please?

[Beth]

Here's another user that had the same issue: Error Initializing Vault in ComInit().

Start with first running the following commands at a command line and then try Vault again.
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis -u
and
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis -i

If that fails, then try a repair install of your 2.0 .NET framework.

[Noble Bell]

None of these options worked. I tried them all. I also uninstalled the client and reinstalled twice. When I try and run the client program from the desktop I get a messagebox almost immediately after clicking on the shortcut icon that says "SourceGear Vault Windows Client has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." When I try to use the client through visual studio I get the ComInit error.

I looked at the earlier post and it did not help either.

Anymore suggestions please? I need to get this working so that I can work from home.

[Beth]

Could you look in your Event Viewer logs for errors? What are you seeing there?

If it's not working as a stand alone client, then it isn't going to work with Visual Studio. Let's focus on first getting the Vault GUI client working.

[Noble Bell]

Thanks for your help. I decided that it would be much easier to just blow out my machine and reload everything. That fixed the problem obviously. I can only think that when I uninstalled Delphi from Codegear from my machine that it removed some required components needed by Vault. Upon further inspection of other applications I found that quite a few applications quit working after the uninstall. They were all developed on .Net framework.

[Beth]

Thanks for the update. Happy to hear you are working again.

[neversaid]

Hello,
just for giving more Information on this topic:
I have received this error message:
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SourceGear Vault Professional
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Error Initializing Vault in ComInit():
Unrecognized configuration section system.data (c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322\Config\machine.config line 4047)
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OK
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After some search i found out that the SQLite Installer added a wrong line at the end of the File,
<system.data>....</system.data>
I am not sure where this should go but after removing this line Vault is working fine!

Bernhard

[Beth]

I hadn't seen anything like that before. What operating system is this installed on? Is it the server machine that had the problem or the client machine?