I can't help directly with a response to your question.
You can help someone who knows more about this by providing as a minimum the code that you ran that generated this error.
Call for @PaigeMiller - this seems like something up your alley.
I found the following link that points to the HAYWOOD option. Note that a communality>1 means a negative error variance (Hah!), or at least negative eigenvalues. Anyhow, you could try what is here on Peter Westfall's website
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