Microsoft KB Archive/152428

= Initialization Failure in Rasman.dll When Shutting Down =

Article ID: 152428

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51

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This article was previously published under Q152428





SYMPTOMS
Windows NT may stop responding on shutdown and/or the following message may appear:

  Initialization of the dynamic link library c:\winnt35\system32\rasman.dll failed. The process is terminating abnormally.



CAUSE
The service controller issues an asynchronous TransactNamedPipe and asks it to read four bytes to a stack variable. It then waits two minutes for the TransactNamedPipe to finish. After two minutes it returns from the function without canceling the operation. When the operation finishes it overwrites the stack.



RESOLUTION
The I/O operation is canceled before the function returns.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 3.51. This problem was corrected in the latest Windows NT 3.51 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining the Service Pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

Additional query words: 3.51 prodnt EMS hung

Keywords: KB152428

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