Clickonce deployment failed - System.Security.XmlSyntaxException

Question

Hi,

We have a ClickOnce deployed application, which is working for some users.

One user is getting the "Application cannot be started. Contact the application vendor" error. The error details are:

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COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION FAILURE SUMMARY
 No transaction error was detected.

WARNINGS
 There were no warnings during this operation.

OPERATION PROGRESS STATUS
 * [1/11/2010 10:32:38] : Activation of http://xyz.com/xyz.application has started.

ERROR DETAILS
 Following errors were detected during this operation.
 * [1/11/2010 10:32:38] System.Security.XmlSyntaxException
 - Invalid syntax on line 1.
 - Source: mscorlib
 - Stack trace:
 at System.Security.Util.Parser.GetRequiredSizes(TokenizerStream stream, Int32& index)
 at System.Security.Util.Parser.ParseContents()
 at System.Security.Util.Parser..ctor(Tokenizer t)
 at System.Security.SecurityElement.FromString(String xml)
 at System.Security.Policy.PolicyLevel.AppendRegistryInfoToNamedPermissionSet(SecurityElement securityElement, Int32 namedPermissionSetIndex)
 at System.Security.Policy.PolicyLevel.GetInternetElement()
 at System.Security.Policy.PolicyLevel.SetFactoryPermissionSets()
 at System.Security.Policy.PolicyLevel.SetDefault()
 at System.Security.Policy.PolicyLevel.LoadPolicyLevel()
 at System.Security.Policy.PolicyLevel.CheckLoaded()
 at System.Security.Policy.PolicyLevel.Resolve(Evidence evidence, Int32 count, Char[] serializedEvidence)
 at System.Security.PolicyManager.CodeGroupResolve(Evidence evidence, Boolean systemPolicy)
 at System.Security.PolicyManager.ResolveHelper(Evidence evidence)
 at System.Security.HostSecurityManager.ResolvePolicy(Evidence evidence)
 at System.Security.PolicyManager.Resolve(Evidence evidence)
 at System.Security.SecurityManager.ResolvePolicy(Evidence evidence)
 at System.Xml.XmlSecureResolver..ctor(XmlResolver resolver, String securityUrl)
 at System.Security.Cryptography.Xml.SignedXml.GetC14NDigest(HashAlgorithm hash)
 at System.Security.Cryptography.Xml.SignedXml.CheckSignedInfo(AsymmetricAlgorithm key)
 at System.Security.Cryptography.Xml.SignedXml.CheckSignatureReturningKey(AsymmetricAlgorithm& signingKey)
 at System.Deployment.Internal.CodeSigning.SignedCmiManifest.Verify(CmiManifestVerifyFlags verifyFlags)
 at System.Deployment.Application.Manifest.AssemblyManifest.ValidateSignature(Stream s)
 at System.Deployment.Application.ManifestReader.FromDocument(String localPath, ManifestType manifestType, Uri sourceUri)
 at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDeploymentManifestDirectBypass(SubscriptionStore subStore, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, SubscriptionState& subState, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options, ServerInformation& serverInformation)
 at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDeploymentManifestBypass(SubscriptionStore subStore, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, SubscriptionState& subState, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options)
 at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.PerformDeploymentActivation(Uri activationUri, Boolean isShortcut)
 at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.ActivateDeploymentWorker(Object state)

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION DETAILS
 No transaction information is available

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Does anyone know what is going wrong (I am utterly stumped), or even better, how you would fix this issue?

Thanks,

knalgan1

Answer 1

Hi,

 

->XmlSyntaxException

 

The exception that is thrown when there is a syntax error in XML parsing. (Check this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.xmlsyntaxexception.aspx )

 

Best regards,

Ling Wang

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Answer 2

We had to re-install .NET Framework on client machine to resolve this issue

Answer 3

Thanks for sharing your answer. It will be very beneficial for other community members having the similar questions.

Have a nice day. J

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Answer 4

I had this error in a different context and was able to resolve it by deleting the .cch files from the roaming user profile.

You will find them here on Windows 7

c:\users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\CLR Security Config\v2.0.50727.312\

Basically delete anything called security.config.cch or security.config.cch.####.######## (where # represents a digit).

It seems to be some sort of precompiled version of security.config, and is recreated on next run.

For reference, I diagnosed it by using Process Monitor to see what files were accessed. These were accessed just before it quit.