Beta shutdown

[roedygr]

Beta still has problems shutting down. It leaves this dialog up which cannot be killed without the Task Manager and a multiple stab wounds.

[Albert Wiersch]

Thanks. I'm aware of this issue but am still not sure what is causing it.

I am keeping an eye out for it.

By the way, if you can figure out a way to reproduce it on a consistent basis, then please let me know!

[RSteinwand]

I've always thought it was from shutting down before it had a chance to display a dialog (like file had changed... reload?)

I had a shutdown issue today, first in a long time. I hadn't used CSE for several hours, had maybe 6 tabs open, some were from IE so source might not exist anymore and very possibly files had changed outside CSE.

[roedygr]

The blank error message on shutdown is still happening in beta 2D.

[Albert Wiersch]

The blank error message on shutdown is still happening in beta 2D.

Thanks. I have still not been able to locate that issue. It is hard to reproduce. Can you reproduce it on a consistent basis? If so, then please let me know how. If I can reproduce it, then there's a much better chance that I can find and fix the problem. If you can easily reproduce it but I can't, then I can send you a special build that can generate some log files that should be helpful.

[roedygr]

One way to reproduce it would be to use the replicator at http://mindprod.com/webstart/replicator.html
to download a local copy of my website, then do a do a batch validate and shut down as soon as it completes. I suspect the problem is files with lots of external links. I want to shut down before it completes checking them all.

[Albert Wiersch]

One way to reproduce it would be to use the replicator at http://mindprod.com/webstart/replicator.html
to download a local copy of my website, then do a do a batch validate and shut down as soon as it completes. I suspect the problem is files with lots of external links. I want to shut down before it completes checking them all.

So when you do this, you can consistently (always or almost always) reproduce the problem?

[Albert Wiersch]

I would like to do further research on this issue. It sometimes happens here, but I have difficulty reproducing it. If you would like to help me try to fix this issue, then please let me know and I will send you a link to a special debug build that will create a type of log file that will help me narrow down where the problem is occurring.

[Albert Wiersch]

I think this crash-on-shutdown issue may finally be resolved in v9.9927 and later. I haven't had any reports of this problem recurring with v9.9927 or later from a few people who were helping me with this issue. If anyone does encounter this issue again with v9.9927 or later, then please let me know.

[DavidHyde]

Running on Vista, after exiting I got a stream of

Access violation at address 601A1670. Read of address 601A1670.

Task manager is required to break out of this loop.

Not sure what caused this the first time; haven't repeated it since.

[Albert Wiersch]

Running on Vista, after exiting I got a stream of

Access violation at address 601A1670. Read of address 601A1670.

Task manager is required to break out of this loop.

Not sure what caused this the first time; haven't repeated it since.

Thanks David. Looks like this issue isn't addressed after all. This is a hard one to find since it can't be easily duplicated.

I wonder if it is a component I'm using.

[RSteinwand]

Can you throw in some debug code? At shutdown it starts dumping info to a log file.

[jcyr]

Hi Albert,

All went well with beta 10 till I tried to exit the application. Then I got the attached crash dialog and had to resort to a task manager kill to get rid of it.

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[Albert Wiersch]

Can you throw in some debug code? At shutdown it starts dumping info to a log file.

I tried some debug code and based on that, it seems to be crashing on the VCL or other exit code... I can only suspect some type of memory corruption from something, but I'm finding this very hard to nail down. I thought I had fixed it but it must not have been the cause.

[marcb]

I have already reported this issue before, but since it seems a hard one to solve, some additional stuff that might perhaps help.
I am now running the latest beta on W7, but the problem is not linked to the OS since I already experienced the problem on XP with the latest official CSE release.
In my case, the problem always happens when closing CSE after a batch validation. I close the batch wizard window and then, the main program, and the problem appears. However, t does not appear always.
So, without having exact figures on this, I have the impression that the problem happens after making changes to the code. In my case, since I have a PHP site, I do not use the CSE editor. Instead, I am using Topstyle to update the various pieces of code. While I make these changes with TS, CSE is still running, but not really used. Now, I know there is some linkage between the two products, so I was wondering whether the changes that are made via TS, or simply starting it while there is still a CSE session active, might cause some confusion?
Just guessing of course.