Runtime Error! (abnormal program termination) maya.exe
The Problem
When starting Maya 8.5, you get an immediate error message and program termination:
Runtime Error!
Program C:\Program …
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What the hey? What does this mean?
You may one day end up seeing the following error message produced by PHP and wonder to yourself:
PHP Parse error: …
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