Informix Error -1364: Error recovery setup failed - Application Terminating.

Reasons / Common Causes

-1364 fires when the mechanism that lets the application catch and handle internal errors can't complete its own setup — per the official guidance, this is a Windows-platform-specific condition, given its documented recovery action.

1. A failure in the application's own error-handling initialization, per the official guidance's framing — no further application-level cause is named.

Solutions / Resolution

1. Return to DOS and restart Windows, per the official guidance — this is the documented, specific recovery action for this platform-specific condition.

Examples

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No specific triggering statement is documented — this is a platform-level error-handling setup failure.

Diagnostic Checks

1. If this recurs after restarting Windows, per the official guidance's implicit framing, escalate with the specific circumstances, since the documented fix is otherwise exhausted.

Related Errors / Related Topics

• -1362 — "4GL runtime stack violation." A related critical internal error, about the runtime stack rather than the error-recovery mechanism itself.
• -1363 — "A fatal internal error has occurred - Application Terminating." A related critical internal error, about a memory-access fault rather than error-recovery setup.

The application's own error-handling setup failed (Windows-specific) — return to DOS and restart Windows.