What does HRESULT 0x88980098 (MILERR_MROW_UPDATE_FAILED) mean?

 
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MILERR_MROW_UPDATE_FAILED

MILERR_MROW_UPDATE_FAILED is a Windows Media Integration Layer (MIL) HRESULT. It indicates that an update to a shared rendering resource conflicts with an outstanding update operation.

What to check for MILERR_MROW_UPDATE_FAILED

  • Serialize updates to the affected resource and wait for the previous update to complete.
  • Check for duplicate composition updates submitted from independent callbacks or threads.
  • Coalesce frequent changes so only the latest required update is applied after the resource is writable.

Microsoft documentation about WPF hardware-accelerated rendering

Diagnostic interpretation of MILERR_MROW_UPDATE_FAILED

MILERR_MROW_UPDATE_FAILED has the HRESULT value 0x88980098. AllStat records the condition as “MROW attempt to update the data failed because another update was outstanding.”. For MILERR_MROW_UPDATE_FAILED, in practice, interpret that wording at the boundary owned by the Windows component or COM interface that returned the HRESULT, rather than treating the value as a generic Windows message.

Evidence to capture for MILERR_MROW_UPDATE_FAILED

  • Record the exact COM method or Windows API, its input object, the calling thread, and the full 0x88980098 value before a wrapper converts it to an exception or Boolean result.
  • Capture any IErrorInfo text, activity identifier, event-log entry, and subsystem trace that mentions MILERR_MROW_UPDATE_FAILED or the milerr / mrow / update operation.
  • Reproduce MILERR_MROW_UPDATE_FAILED with the smallest valid input and note whether the result changes with identity, architecture, service state, or target object.

Retry and recovery for MILERR_MROW_UPDATE_FAILED

Retry MILERR_MROW_UPDATE_FAILED only when the owning API documents a transient state or after the condition described as “MROW attempt to update the data failed because another update was outstanding.” has changed. For MILERR_MROW_UPDATE_FAILED, configuration, policy, format, and authorization failures normally require correction first; an immediate loop can hide the original call site and add secondary errors.


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