Why is my timer getting disabled? (m4l490n)

I'm trying to use the Timer driver to implement a regular periodic timer using the PIC32 TMR2 in 32-bit mode and I've configured the driver like this: tmr2_handle = DRV_TMR_Open(DRV_TMR_INDEX_0, DRV_IO_INTENT_EXCLUSIVE);

if (DRV_HANDLE_INVALID..