WBEM_E_CANNOT_BE_SINGLETON

Illegal attempt was made to make a class singleton, such as when the class is derived from a non-singleton class.

Matched as: the code as given (hex)

HRESULT breakdown: code: 4140, customer: False, facility: 4, severity: failure (bit 31 set), ntstatus_wrapped: False

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