Just to confirm, this is a big problem for me, too. My observations confirm the original report. Stack trace, should it help, is here. I guess "lookup_account_sid" is passing an invalid lpSid? #0  0x75c1511c in RPCRT4!NdrProxyFreeBuffer () from C:\Windows\syswow64\rpcrt4.dll #1  0x76dcbb9e in UpdateTraceA () from C:\Windows\syswow64\advapi32.dll #2  0x0087946c in ?? () #3  0x75c0e69d in RPCRT4!MesDecodeIncrementalHandleCreate () from C:\Windows\syswow64\rpcrt4.dll #4  0x0087946c in ?? () #5  0x75c11eda in RpcErrorEndEnumeration () from C:\Windows\syswow64\rpcrt4.dll #6  0x0087946c in ?? () #7  0x75c06bf0 in RPCRT4!NdrOleAllocate () from C:\Windows\syswow64\rpcrt4.dll #8  0x0087946c in ?? () #9  0x75c125e1 in RpcErrorEndEnumeration () from C:\Windows\syswow64\rpcrt4.dll #10 0x76dcc0a6 in UpdateTraceA () from C:\Windows\syswow64\advapi32.dll #11 0x0087946c in ?? () #12 0x75c12557 in RpcErrorEndEnumeration () from C:\Windows\syswow64\rpcrt4.dll #13 0x0087998c in ?? () #14 0x75c1253b in RpcErrorEndEnumeration () from C:\Windows\syswow64\rpcrt4.dll #15 0x0087998c in ?? () #16 0x75c0e713 in RPCRT4!MesDecodeIncrementalHandleCreate () from C:\Windows\syswow64\rpcrt4.dll #17 0x0087946c in ?? () #18 0x75c06bf0 in RPCRT4!NdrOleAllocate () from C:\Windows\syswow64\rpcrt4.dll #19 0x0087946c in ?? () #20 0x75c13c1a in RPCRT4!I_RpcParseSecurity () from C:\Windows\syswow64\rpcrt4.dll #21 0x76dcfa8e in LsaGetQuotasForAccount () from C:\Windows\syswow64\advapi32.dll #22 0x75c00db7 in UuidFromStringA () from C:\Windows\syswow64\rpcrt4.dll #23 0x0087946c in ?? () #24 0x75ca0104 in ?? () #25 0x76dd963e in LsaICLookupSidsWithCreds () from C:\Windows\syswow64\advapi32.dll #26 0x76dcb9c8 in UpdateTraceA () from C:\Windows\syswow64\advapi32.dll #27 0x76dcfa6a in LsaGetQuotasForAccount () from C:\Windows\syswow64\advapi32.dll #28 0x76dd958c in LsaICLookupSidsWithCreds () from C:\Windows\syswow64\advapi32.dll #29 0x0098c9a8 in ?? () #30 0x76dd9417 in LsaManageSidNameMapping () from C:\Windows\syswow64\advapi32.dll #31 0x76df1c27 in LookupAccountNameW () from C:\Windows\syswow64\advapi32.dll #32 0x76df1ec6 in LookupAccountSidW () from C:\Windows\syswow64\advapi32.dll #33 0x01029e1b in lookup_account_sid@28 () #34 0x0102a12d in get_name_and_id () #35 0x0102a2a4 in get_file_owner_and_group () #36 0x0102c2c7 in stat () #37 0x0103be17 in Finsert_file_contents () #38 0x0100ee96 in Ffuncall () #39 0x0107139d in exec_byte_code ()