Update: Signability DriverVer date bug

NTDEV
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On an XP SP2 system with German language settings, the WDK tool
Signability.exe (from WDK RTM) reports the error

“Signability Test failed to run, TestDrivers function call failed.”

when in the driver INF file DriverVer is set to December, 2006.

Examples:
DriverVer=11/30/2006,6.0.6000.16386 ; Fine
DriverVer=12/01/2006,6.0.6000.16386 ; Provokes error
DriverVer=01/24/2007,6.0.6000.16386 ; Fine

December 2006 is over, so currently I am not affected by this problem.
Nevertheless I wonder whether - according to Microsoft - German years
might have only 11 months, as opposed to English ones… :smiley:

Udo Eberhardt schrieb:
> Based on your surname, I suppose you are located in Germany…
>
> The Signability tool seems not to work correctly if the system is set
> to German data/time format. In Control Panel - Regional and Language
> Options set “Standards and formats” to “English (United States)” and
> try again. After you are done with Signability you can switch back to
> German.
>
> Udo

I did not try it, but it could also work to use the Microsoft AppLocale
Utility and run Signability.exe with an English locale.

Can someone tell me how to report this bug to Microsoft?
IMHO for fellow developers a KB entry might be helpful.
-H

2

I can’t say that I know the answer. I do however offer my condolences,
because I can only imagine the joy that trying to get driver signing up
and running can be given that you are doing so utilizing a language
which I’m assuming is different the one in which the documentation was
written. If you concur this one, perhaps you might be able to slay the
DTM beast.

Good luck and I feel your pain,

mm

>> xxxxx@hotmail.com 2007-01-25 06:03 >>>
On an XP SP2 system with German language settings, the WDK tool
Signability.exe (from WDK RTM) reports the error

“Signability Test failed to run, TestDrivers function call failed.”

when in the driver INF file DriverVer is set to December, 2006.

Examples:
DriverVer=11/30/2006,6.0.6000.16386 ; Fine
DriverVer=12/01/2006,6.0.6000.16386 ; Provokes error
DriverVer=01/24/2007,6.0.6000.16386 ; Fine

December 2006 is over, so currently I am not affected by this problem.
Nevertheless I wonder whether - according to Microsoft - German years
might have only 11 months, as opposed to English ones… :smiley:

Udo Eberhardt schrieb:
> Based on your surname, I suppose you are located in Germany…
>
> The Signability tool seems not to work correctly if the system is
set
> to German data/time format. In Control Panel - Regional and Language

> Options set “Standards and formats” to “English (United States)” and

> try again. After you are done with Signability you can switch back
to
> German.
>
> Udo

I did not try it, but it could also work to use the Microsoft AppLocale

Utility and run Signability.exe with an English locale.

Can someone tell me how to report this bug to Microsoft?
IMHO for fellow developers a KB entry might be helpful.
-H

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