MOSS: Exception occurred. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80020009 (DISP_E_EXCEPTION))

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UPDATE: We never determined the root cause of this problem and it never surface again.

We notice during implementation of a development site that suddenly, two users are unable to access a site collection. Those accounts can authenticate to the main site, but when trying to access a particular site collection, they just get a blank screen. No errors displayed, just a white blank page.

We log in as a site collection admin and try to add one of those users as a site admin and this time, upon pressing "OK", we get this message:

Exception occurred. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80020009 (DISP_E_EXCEPTION))

We spent some time researching this and unfortunately, didn’t come up with anything useful. There were some messages in the diagnostic log, but it was hard to exactly correlate them with this issue.

In the end, we deleting the site collection and re-created it and that solved it.

If I figure out what caused this in future, I’ll update this post.

 

15 thoughts on “MOSS: Exception occurred. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80020009 (DISP_E_EXCEPTION))”

  1. Manuel Duque Muriel

    Mi error was: Cannot save the property settings for this Web Part. Exception occurred. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80020009 I found that most of the time is a code error (or a .Net framework bug even when your code have sense). Se the solution in the next post:

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  2. Manuel Duque Muriel

    Hello. I had the same proble. I was impersonating some code runing with elevated privileges and so calling a spweb like this: //SPWeb estaWeb = SPControl.GetContextWeb(Context);
    So I changed it to: SPWeb estaWeb= SPControl.GetContextSite(Context).OpenWeb();
    and now it´s solved.

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  4. Alla Boglaeva

    I had this issue with a webpart. Pretty much it was deployed and then retracted. THe retractons wasn’t coplete and the webpart still existed.

    I deleted the webpart from the collection, retracted fully, reset iis. Then redeployed reset iis and its now fine! 🙂

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  6. 方正 陈
    I  had the same error message when I create sitecollection using template "search center with tabs","search center"or"my site host"
    .  The error comes up sometimes but not always when I am adding a sitecollection using the method blow:
     mSite = db.Sites.Add(siteUrl, title, description, nLCID, webTemplate, ownerLogin, ownerName, ownerEmail);
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  7. Tâm Nguyễn Thành
    Oh, in my case, this error occured because i used using (SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web)
    huh, my problem is such foolish one! In MSDN document, there’s a note that not try to dispose in cases like this.
    Thanks all.
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  9. Saurabh
    Hi paul
     
    I am facing the same Exception…
    When i add a webpart to my Custom Webpartzone it shows the Error "Unable to add selected web part(s).
    HelloWorld: Exception occured. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8002009 (DISP_E_EXCEPTION))"…
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  10. Hasse
    I get this error also. After this error first time happend ,  I can’t change user rights or add new user/s etc. I’m now try resolve this error about 3 days, and no hope. So, any idea is this bug(MS) or what??? Could it be some sql error?
     
    So error message what we get is Exception occurred. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80020009 (DISP_E_EXCEPTION))  And every time when we try change any site user right.
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  11. Just Another Guy
    Same error here and spent many days trying to fix it until I broke down and did the export and import. Was fixed for a day until we made some changes (to fix things that didn’t come over in import) and it broke again. Turned out it was a multi-value lookup in teh user list. Breaks it every time…
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  12. Der

    We had the same error message.
    In our case we got to the bottom of this issue and determined a corrupt
    webtempcustom.xml file in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft
    Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\1033\XML directory causing the
    problem.

    The guy from the microsoft support told me he had seen this error
    message before in several totally different cases, so it is hard to
    infer from this error message to the real problem.

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  13. Anantha Rishikesan Thamotharan

    Even, i got this error. In my case, I added a custom lookup[Multiple] field in the user list. That makes the site to through the following error, whenever i try to add a new user / change permission of the existing user.

    create new user Exception occurred.(Exception from HRESULT: 0x80020009 (DISP_E_EXCEPTION))

    After deleting the multiple lookup column. All is well 🙂

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  15. Chris Rogers

    Thought I would add here for posterity.. had the same error. Just figured it out… it is the CAML query I was using.

    “{0}”

    (hint: type-‘Computed’)

    Finicky beast isn’t it?

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