Failed to CoCreate Profiler error - but not using a profiler

asp.net .net iis profiler
Dale picture Dale · Apr 4, 2012 · Viewed 47.8k times · Source

We're getting a:

.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.5448 - Failed to CoCreate profiler

message in the Event Viewer on our webserver, along with an accompanying:

.NET Runtime version 4.0.30319.239 - Loading profiler failed during CoCreateInstance. Profiler CLSID: '{d37a1b78-6dc5-46fc-bc31-f7c4d5a11c9c}'. HRESULT: 0x8007007e. Process ID (decimal): 224. Message ID: [0x2504].

The thing is, we're not trying to use a profiler, there are no profiler's running or installed on the server and the code makes no reference to profilers anywhere...

We've tried removing the registry keys that other's have pointed out are related to these messages but to no avail; it would seem that two of our websites/webapps are firing off the error, one using .Net2 and the other using 4, but I'm not sure where to look.

Answer

Dale picture Dale · Apr 5, 2012

After much searching I found that someone had previously installed dotTrace, then uninstalled it, however the uninstall wasn't very clean and had left the registry littered with entries, though we'd removed some entries we thought could stop the problem there were more specific to that profiler.

After removing all registry entries related to dottrace and the CSID it presented we no longer have the error appearing in the event viewer.

See this answer for a script to aid in hunting down such entries: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36129656/361842

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