A part the application needs is set up on a drive that cannot be reached (code 36)

The window of the starter says: „A part the application needs is set up on a drive that cannot be reached right now.“ Below it stands the error code 36; the diagnostic details (Alt+D) name the registered path and its drive or share. The exit code of the starter is 36.

WKL Bootstrapper 2.0, for every delivery that registers a COM server (the WKL Forms Object Library or a server of a project of format 2), on a computer where that server is already registered from another folder.

The server is registered - by the release package, by the IT or by another installation - from a drive or share that cannot be reached now: an external drive that is not connected, a network share that is offline. The registration exists, but the file behind it cannot be read.

The starter does not register its own copy over such a registration. That would replace the registration of whoever made it, without a message and beyond this start: when the drive is back, every other application on the computer would get the starter's copy instead of the release it was set up with. A missing file in a folder that can be reached is different: the starter replaces it with the delivered copy, as a repair.

The case is not temporary for the starter: it does not wait or retry, and the next start checks again.

1. Read the diagnostic details: they name the registered path and the drive or share.
2. Connect the drive or the network again and start once more.
3. When that drive or share is gone for good, the registration has to be set up again from a folder that stays reachable (by whoever made it, usually the IT); then start again.