[CI Failure] Windows process initialization failure (exit code -1073741502 / 0xC0000142) in post-test steps

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Build Information

Build: https://github.com/microsoft/aspire/actions/runs/29060131780
Build error leg: Tests / Hosting.Azure / Hosting.Azure (windows-latest)
Pull request: #18696

Error Message

Process completed with exit code -1073741502. (0xC0000142 STATUS_DLL_INIT_FAILED) occurring in post-test upload/cleanup steps after all tests pass successfully on Windows runners.

Description

Windows process initialization failure (exit code -1073741502 / 0xC0000142) in post-test steps

Type: infra-failure

Occurrences

Date	Build	Job	PR
2026-07-10	29060131780	Tests / Hosting.Azure / Hosting.Azure (windows-latest)	#18696
2026-07-18	29622211818	Tests / Hosting.Dotnet / Hosting.Dotnet (windows-latest)	#18813
2026-07-21	29828970048	Tests / Azure.Search.Documents / Azure.Search.Documents (windows-latest)	#18816
2026-07-22	29884310827	Tests / Hosting.PostgreSQL / Hosting.PostgreSQL (windows-latest)	#18853
2026-07-27	30225781652	Tests / Hosting.Browsers / Hosting.Browsers (windows-latest)	#18839
2026-08-04	30906478483	Tests / Hosting-1 / Hosting-1 (windows-latest)	#1056
2026-08-05	31047577163	Tests / Hosting-1 / Hosting-1 (windows-latest)	#18850
2026-08-11	31481900781	Tests / Hosting-1 / Hosting-1 (windows-latest)	#19222
2026-08-12	31567169550	Tests / Hosting.Sdk / Hosting.Sdk (windows-latest)	#19276
2026-08-12	31574459556	Tests / Hosting.Qdrant / Hosting.Qdrant (windows-latest)	#19127
2026-08-13	31654765605	Tests / Templates-BuildAndRunTemplateTests / Templates-BuildAndRunTemplateTests (windows-latest)	#19321
2026-08-13	31739682865	Tests / Cli / Cli (windows-latest)	#16842
2026-08-24	32756925219	Tests / Acquisition / Acquisition (windows-latest)	#19592
2026-08-26	32999137654	Tests / Azure.Npgsql / Azure.Npgsql (windows-latest)	#19716
2026-08-28	33148354008	Tests / RabbitMQ.Client / RabbitMQ.Client (windows-latest)	#19661
2026-09-01	33511764214	Tests / Microsoft.Data.SqlClient / Microsoft.Data.SqlClient (windows-latest)	#19760
2026-09-02	33578521517	Tests / Hosting.GitHub.Models / Hosting.GitHub.Models (windows-latest)	#19670
2026-09-11	34655355873	Tests / No-package tests (collection, Aspire.Hosting.Tests, Hosting-4, Hosting-4, tests/Aspire.Hosting.Tests) / Hosting-4 (windows-latest)	#20072
2026-09-15	35023188186	Tests / No-package tests (regular, Aspire.Hosting.Redis.Tests, Hosting.Redis, Hosting.Redis, tests/Aspire... / Hosting.Redis (windows-latest)	#20146
2026-09-15	35023788042	Tests / No-package tests (regular, Aspire.RabbitMQ.Client.Tests, RabbitMQ.Client, RabbitMQ.Client, tests/... / RabbitMQ.Client (windows-latest)	#20052
2026-09-18	35322237059	Tests / No-package tests (regular, Aspire.Azure.Data.Tables.Tests, Azure.Data.Tables, Azure.Data.Tables, ... / Azure.Data.Tables (windows-latest)	#19887