crash-dumps

Symbols files and debugging

Assume i have a custom service written in VC++ 6.0 and i have shipped it as part of a particular release. Unfortunately i did not take the pdb while building the binary. At a later point of time my customer reported a crash and i had to get the pdb to identify the crash cause. Will a pdb that i take now be enough to identify the point o...

How do I enable core dumps for daemon processes on montavista linux?

I am not sure if stackoverflow is the correct place for this, but since this is for embedded development, and I need core dumps, which are also for development, I figured that this was the best place to ask. I am trying to enable global core dumps in such a way that every time a program crashes in a way which produces a core, it gets wr...

Core dump not in sync with gdb stack trace.

I have a program which crashes due to a segmentation fault. The core file is produced. running the core in gdb gives me the following: HP gdb 6.1 for HP Itanium (32 or 64 bit) and target HP-UX 11iv2 and 11iv3. Core was generated by `gcpf1fwcApp'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. I used the command thread app...

My application crashes and leaves entry in Windows Event Log. What to do next?

My application crashes on customer's machine. It leaves entries in Windows event log like this: Event Type: Information Event Source: Application Error Event Category: (100) Event ID: 1004 Date: 9/7/2010 Time: 7:37:32 AM User: N/A Computer: MACHINE_NAME Description: Reporting queued error: faulting application XXXXX.exe, version 0.0.0.0...

IE 6 is crashing when printing from my web application

When clicking on print button the second time from my app, IE 6.0 is crashing. Steps to reproduce: 1) Click on print Button and cancel the print dialog. 2) Click on print again. IE 6.0 crashes. It works fine in IE 7 & 8. Below is the stack trace i got from WinDbg. 0:000> g (730.9e0): Access violation - code c0000005 (first chance)...

How to get SLC.pdb to analyze memory dump

I am using windbg 6.12.0002.633 X86 on Windows Vista to analyze memory dumps for memory leaks. I'm trying to use the command `dumpheap -stat to determine the quantities of objects in the heap. Unfortunately, I'm getting the error *** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for SLC.dll. I have activated !sym no...

Generate / create mdump files for in my app

Im looking for a way to generate minidump files in my applications simular to what ProcDump does but prefarably with code and not having to extract a 3dparty tool to do it. The main reasons for not wanting to use ProcDump is: 1) Size of the binary would increase greatly ( This is a problem because my apps are freeware, and bandwith is n...

Windows C++ App crash

I have a Windows C++ app that crashes on user computers from time to time. I didnt write the app and it doesnt have its own logging. Is there a tool / utility I could use that is able to log some useful information when the application exits (e.g. the file and line number where the crash occurred)? The end user's component does not have ...

Strange UIKit crash

Hi people, my app sometimes crashes when I try to open new view controller, it's looks like if uikit could't load nib file, but in most cases this controller loads fine. I can't determine cause of this problem. Thread 0 Crashed: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00090b2c __kill + 8 1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00090b1a kill...

Auto upload crashlogs iPhone

Hello all, Quick question for you. Will I have any issues with the Appstore approval process if my app periodically checks for crashlogs and uploads it to a server? Is this even possible? If not, can I have something like a global exception handler and make my app terminate gracefully, while being able to upload exception messages to t...

Classic asp (vb6) application crashes with 100% CPU usage

I'm having trouble with an old legacy app that recently started crashing. I'm trying to investigate the DebugDiag analysis, but don't have much luck. Either there is a sql query that locks and somehow the calling thread doesn't die away? Then again callstack points to oledb32!CImpIErrorInfo::GetHelpFile+a1. Here's the info from DebugDia...

Debugging dump of 32-bit process captured on 64-bit machine

I recently received a 64-bit crash dump from a customer. Our processes are all 32-bit, but the customer's machine is running x64 Server 2008. Visual Studio (both 2008 and 2010 Express) is telling me that I have to use the 64-bit version of MSVSMON.EXE, which I can't because I don't have a 64-bit machine. I'm pretty sure there's a way t...

How transport to dev team software crash'es from remote clients machines?

Hello, I searching people who know some experience with bug tracking on client machines, if my application works on many client machines who i don't have to it any access. I have in my application very huge debug logging feature, but in many cases this is to less to good detect problem of crash without very bigs and unreadable logs, the...