Error (and solution) to "Cannot find external name:"

I've been meaning to share this for a while. I've had this show up numerous times recently. Sometimes you'll see it in the Lotus Notes client, but I've been seeing it in the server log most frequently.

The error is: 'Cannot find external name:' followed by a name in capital letters.

This is an error that is a result of having an agent signed by one ID file and an included script library signed by a different ID, usually the server ID.

The solution? Resign both elements with the same ID.

Comments

Fun Little Earthquake

It's 1:45pm EST in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. We just had an earthquake. Not strong enough to damage anything, but enough that I watched people run out of buildings. What a fun Wednesday.

Error 217 - Error creating product object on Domino 64 bit

I'd like to share something with you. An error that you'll get if you are trying to use ODBC with Domino 8.5.1 64bit. It starts out with an agent error of Error 217. The text of the error is "Error creating product object" You can read about it here on the Notes/Domino forum . You can find the solution here as well . I guess I'm now waiting for Domino 8.5.2 for a solution for this. It would have been nice to have had this in the release notes. It would have help me greatly.

Lotus Trading Cards

I was painting the house last night, and my mind got to wandering... Bruce Elgort mentioned on Twitter last night that he was thinking of a VC fund for Lotus projects. So my mind wandered about that, and turned to how we present ourselves. I got to thinking that business cards are so ... old school. I think we need Trading Cards. So, here are the first few I've come up with.

Wildunknown

Search This Blog