I've had a crash in a very stable dolphin executable app. This is just a
simple socket daemon type app which spawns dolphin threads to handle SMTP sessions. It has a simple console window with a richedit log pane (which didn't have much in it when it crashed, (s/b <32k). It seems it didn't blow anywhere in my code so I have no idea what happened or how to fix it. This app has been running for days on a dedicated machine (win 2003 server) nothing else running on it. This is the only crash so far. Can anyone give me any interpretation of the below? ************************** Dolphin Crash Dump Report******************* 18:53:04 PM, 7/27/2003: smtpreceiver.exe caused an unhandled Win32 Exception C0000005 at 0040826C in module 00400000 (C:\mail\smtpreceiver.exe) *----> Exception Parameters <----* 00000001 00ABC008 *----> CPU Context for thread 0x5f8 <----* EAX = 06DCBC90 EBX = 00000001 ECX = 00ABC000 ESI = 00000008 EDI = 00430B58 EIP = 0040826C ESP = 0752FE14 EBP = 00AA0274 EFL = 00010206 CS = 001B SS = 0023 DS = 0023 ES = 0023 FS = 0038 GS = 0000 ****N.B. This exception did NOT occur in the main Dolphin execution thread **** *----> CPU Context for main thread 0x33c <----* EAX = 000000C0 EBX = 0012FBC8 ECX = 00000011 ESI = 000002E0 EDI = 00000000 EIP = 7FFE0304 ESP = 0012F788 EBP = 0012F7F8 EFL = 00000246 CS = 001B SS = 0023 DS = 0023 ES = 0023 FS = 003B GS = 0000 In module 7FFE0000 (<UNKNOWN>) ***** End of crash report ***** |
Hi Alan,
<snip> > ****N.B. This exception did NOT occur in the main Dolphin execution > thread **** > > *----> CPU Context for main thread 0x33c <----* EAX = 000000C0 EBX = > 0012FBC8 ECX = 00000011 ESI = 000002E0 EDI = 00000000 EIP = 7FFE0304 > ESP = 0012F788 EBP = 0012F7F8 EFL = 00000246 CS = 001B SS = 0023 DS = > 0023 ES = 0023 FS = 003B GS = 0000 > > In module 7FFE0000 (<UNKNOWN>) I have had a couple of these and have always been able to track the problem down . The first time I saw one was during the beta for D5. Blair's response at that time was: Blair McGlashan wrote: > I have seen something similar to this before when a thread started by > a DLL that Dolphin had loaded (in this case directly, but that need > not necessarily be the case) was crashing. In that case it was the > HTML help OCX, and it was crashing when switching away from a dolphin > deployment. It turned out that it had not been shut down properly, > and I imagine that it hooks application activation/deactivation in > some way. This was particularly likely to show up when a particular > virtual window manager was used. > > One possibility to consider is that a definitely a foreign thread has > "successfully" called back into Dolphin. A callback on another thread > might occur, for example, by passing out an unmarshalled COM > interface pointer to something which then holds a ref. to it and uses > it from another thread. The rules, and system infrastructure, of COM > help to guard against this happenning, but it is possible to do it. > Also a standard callback object could be passed to an API which > captures it and calls it from another thread. The VM guards against > incoming calls from foreign threads and marshals them onto the main > thread (an action which might cause a deadlock, but there is little > other choice), so I can't quite see how it would happen, but it is > worth being aware of. > > By far the most likely explanation would be either the first, i.e. > that a thread has been started by a component that Dolphin is using > and is crashing, or that some overlapped call is crashing. The approach I took to track down the cause of the problem is to configure the OS to write a Dr Watson crash dump file for an unhandled exception. That report contains the addresses of the dlls that were loaded in the Dolphin process. For your case, I would look for what DLL was at 7FFE0000. The first time I saw this, the DLL was some kind of sound codec DLL. I uninstalled that codec and the problem went away. The second time, the DLL was gdiplus.dll, and after a bit of digging in MSDN, I found that there was a thread that was crashing due to the way the library was being shutdown. Hope this helps! Steve -- Steve Waring Email: [hidden email] Journal: http://www.stevewaring.net/blog/home/index.html |
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