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0xC0190012: STATUS_TRANSACTION_SUPERIOR_EXISTS

Windows Error Code Lookup: Decode Windows error codes: Win32, HRESULT (0x80070005), NTSTATUS, Windows Update, msiexec and blue-screen stop codes, with what to check next.

Paste the number from an error dialog, event log, script or setup log: 0x80070005, 80070005, -2147024891, 1603, 0xC0000005, a stop code like 0x7E, a name like E_ACCESSDENIED, or a few words. You get every way Windows could mean that number (an HRESULT often wraps a Win32 error, so 0x80070005 is "Access is denied" too), its parts decoded, and what to check for the common ones. Names and messages come from the Windows SDK headers and Windows' own message tables; see Microsoft's System Error Codes and [MS-ERREF] for the full references.

Try: 0x80070005, 1603, 0xC0000005, 0x800F081F, 0x8024402C, 0x7E, access denied

0xC0190012 = 3,222,863,890 = -1072103406

NTSTATUS 0xC0190012

STATUS_TRANSACTION_SUPERIOR_EXISTS

The Transaction object already has a superior enlistment, and the caller attempted an operation that would have created a new superior. Only a single superior enlistment is allowed.

Becomes the Win32 error: 6709ERROR_TRANSACTION_SUPERIOR_EXISTS: The Transaction object already has a superior enlistment, and the caller attempted an operation that would have created a new superior. Only a single superior enlistment is allow.

Severity (bits 30-31)3: Error
Customer (bit 29)0: Microsoft
Facility25 (0x019) TRANSACTION
Code18 (0x0012)