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SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED is the 0x6F Windows initialization stop. Microsoft exposes one meaningful argument: parameter 1 is the NTSTATUS that caused the operating system to decide initialization failed. Parameters 2, 3, and 4 are documented as zero.
SESSION3 is not an interactive session number
Do not interpret the name as “Remote Desktop session 3” or “user session ID 3.” The public bug-check contract describes an operating-system initialization failure and gives no relationship to an interactive logon-session identifier.
Preserve the status and execution context
- Resolve parameter 1 to its NTSTATUS name and meaning.
- Load the matching symbols and inspect the thread and call stack at the failure.
- Correlate boot changes with the component visible in that path, rather than applying repairs copied from another SESSIONx code.
References
- Microsoft: Bug Check 0x6F SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
- Microsoft: NTSTATUS values
- Microsoft: !analyze extension
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