Distsrv may show one or several of the following errors:

Error 1:

error while creating package in central archive. 

archive_from_probe failed: Communication error. 

Error 2:

error while fetching user interface from central Archive

Configurator_get_start failed: invalid Argument

Error 3:

Error while fetching the package from the central archive

archive_get_start failed: not found

Below is an example of such an error.

All of these error messages are a result of a problem with the distsrv probe that was released with UIM version 8.1. and relates to distsrv version 5.30.