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STATUS_SXS_CORRUPTION
Process or thread isolation metadata is corrupt
STATUS_SXS_CORRUPTION reports corruption in side-by-side isolation metadata associated with the process or thread. It is broader than a malformed manifest file: the selected metadata may have been valid when loaded, while the in-memory state used by the isolation facility is now inconsistent.
Separate it from STATUS_SXS_COMPONENT_STORE_CORRUPT. The latter concerns the persisted shared component store; this status points at the isolation state for the current process or thread. The scope determines whether an application-local fault or a system servicing issue is more plausible.
What to inspect
- Record whether the failure is limited to one process, user session or machine-wide applications.
- Capture the first exception or status path before application-level recovery changes context ownership.
- Compare in-memory context state with a fresh process launched from the same untouched package.
References
- Microsoft: activation contexts
- Microsoft: ActivateActCtx
- Microsoft: DeactivateActCtx
- Wine: activation-context implementation
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