BUG: MsDev Caused an Invalid Page Fault in Devedit.pkg

• Microsoft Visual C++, 32-bit Professional Edition, version 6.0
  on the following platforms: Win98

SYMPTOMS

When you start Visual C++ 6.0, you get the following error message soon after the splash screen is displayed:

MsDev caused an invalid page fault C0000005 in devedit.pkg at 0171:50809e6d

CAUSE

This error is caused by a corrupted PKG file that is being accessed by Devedit.pkg. The Devedit.pkg module is using the corrupted PKG file to look up information about how to display text.

This problem happens only under very rare circumstances; however, on some systems, one of these PKG files gets corrupted during installation.

RESOLUTION

Manually copy the PKG files from directory \Common\Msdev98\Bin\Ide on CD-1, to the ...\Common\Msdev98\Bin\Ide on your hard drive--replacing the ones that the setup program put onto your system. Copy these PKG files (depending on the product edition, you may not have all of the following files):

devodl.pkg
devdtg.pkg
devhtmx.pkg
devent.pkg
devcpp.pkg
devaut1.pkg

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: kbDSupport

Keywords : kbsetup kbVC600 kbVC600bug
Version : WINNT:6.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug