The licensing subsystem has failed catastrophically you must reinstall or

Also, when in CS4 and i try and open camera raw it says that there is an AMT failure, also the program will not connect to the internet.. It also works as indicated for Photoshop CS4 by others who posted above!

I have CS4 and this did the trick. Awesome fix, thanks man. Forgot to re-enable them all. My Photoshop CS3 has been installed on my comp with no issues until 2 days ago when I received the licensing error. The licensing subsystem has failed catastrophically. You must reinstall or call customer support. I have tried for 2 days to get the program installed again with no luck.

Can anyone help with the details of what I am supposed to do??? Thanks So So Much! Yeah it is working on windows 7 32 bit.

You don't need to restart the PC. Just enable and start the flex service. It worked for me.. I didn't have to re-install PS. Didnt even have to restart and it just worked.. Thanks so much!!!!! It worked just fine and I did not have to restart my computer!!! After trying all of the above including those mentioned in the comments , I searched on another site and this worked for me:.

Then I started a CS3 app, input the license key and the error went away. Note: this is for Windows users. Since I first went here to find the answers, I figured I'd post the solution that worked for me. This is the ONLY thing that worked for me!

I was panicking because I have several photo shoots this weekend and nothing else worked, thanks so much for getting me back up and running!!! This is the only thing that worked for me, and the issue has now happened twice and fixed twice with the above. Thank you! After deleting all my Adobe folders, I wasn't able to reinstall cs3 on my win vista.

Then someone here said common files in the program files folder. I remembered not deleting those. So I did. I did the Common Files thing.

I tried all of the above solutions to no avail. Then came across yours and it put me exactly on the right path to fixing it. To be honest this entire thread is absolute gold. Funny how I did all the instructions but failed to open photoshop cs3 until i right clicked it, and clicked run as administrator. First thank you for the tip. Though it didn't directly get me to the solution, it led me down the right path.

More recently my entire set of CS3 master collection apps failed to run claiming a damaged license requiring repair or reinstall. Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5 Extended both continued to perform without apparent issue. Curiously I found that if I turned ON the service restarted it and attempted to run a previously working before all this started CS3 app like dreamweaver, the service would turn OFF after the app closed due to the licensing failure.

After downloading and unzipping the license recovery tool licenserecovery With trepidation I ran the tool and sat, hands away from the keyboard waiting for and hoping for a positive result. A few minutes later, the process reported it had been successful at recovering the license. Before dismissing the command prompt screen, I attempted to launch acrobat. Having read somewhere that acrobat doesn't have a full fledged licensing but instead uses other adobe application licensing, I decided to try dreamweaver.

It opened to a temporary activation screen, giving me the option to try to reactivate the application which I did. This did not require me to input serial numbers though I collected them to be ready but instead required internet access so that the licenses could be verified with adobe. This was successful and I was offered the opportunity to enter in registration information I declined for now and allowed to use the program. After closing the app, I tried acrobat again. It worked.

I've tried ALL the tips above as well as nearly everything on the Adobe help site except for uninstalling and reinstalling , and it looks like that works! I've entered my license and re-activated the suite! Had to right-click and select "Properties" then change the dropdown that said "Disabled" to "Automatic. I had the same problem as it sounds like a number of others have had. You cannot use this product at this time.

I poked around for a solution but nothing I tried helped. I uninstalled the entire suite, cleaned out all registry entries pertaining to Adobe and attempted a re-install but this time the only programs that would install was Acrobat Professional 8. I literally had 53 programs that failed to install. I then tried the Flexnet Licensing Service idea. I also went a step further. The installation program did ask me for my licensing information Name, e-mail etc. I input my registration information, clicked o.

I kept wondering if I would have to re-input the serial and or activation code but it never asked for either. After the installation finished, I booted Photoshop and it eventually just went right in to the program. Rename cache. And Done! I just renamed at and the problem has gone. You are my GOD for this day! Thanks for that. Spent several hours messing about until I found this thread and this cured it no problem.

Double click "Services". Change the Startup type to Manual. Click the Start button to start the service. Restart your Creative Suite 3 application. Mac OS only. Solution 4: Repair disk permissions. To repair disk permissions using the Disk Utility:. Select the volume on which you want to install Illustrator. Solution 5: Try to install as a new user or an admin user.

To create a new user account in Mac OS From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences. Click Accounts. Click the plus sign at the bottom-left corner.

Note, if nothing happens click on the Lock symbol to authenticate your rights to make changes. Type a user name and a password that you'll remember, such as test.

This makes the test user an administrator. I then followed this advice I then saw this this Even though I keep starting it, it just stops 1 minute later. Have Adobe 'revoked' the serial number so that it no longer works?