crash-dumps

Module versions in a crash dump

Hi, Is there a way to figure out versions of modules that were loaded into the process' address space when the process crashed from a crash dump that was generated by the process calling the MiniDumpWriteDump function? In other words, is any version information stored inside a dmp file? Thanks. ...

Viewing registers in a crash dump

Is there a way to view the register contents in each stack frame in a crash dump? The registers window seems to contain the registers when the exception occurred but it would be useful to be able to see their contents in each stack frame. ...

Getting a list of 3rd party modules with Windbg?

I'm using windbg to examine some crash dumps sent in by an app. There seems to be some correlation between a crash I'm seeing and having a certain 3rd party DLL loaded into the process (a flaky Winsock LSP, I suspect). To make this sort of analysis easier in the future, is there a windbg script that would just show me a list of modules...

How Best to Alias an Executable Name in a WinDBG Crash Script?

Background Information For saving out crash dumps, I have a script passed to cdb.exe in the Debugger value of the AeDebug registry key: C:\progra~1\debugg~1\cdb.exe -p %ld -e %ld -g -y SRV*c:\mss*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols -c "$<d:\tgticker\Dumps\RDFD.cdbscript" Here is the first portion of the script: as /c CrashFir...

How can I force unhandled exceptions in a WCF thread to crash the process?

So here's the scenario: I have a WCF service that has a bunch of FaultContracts defined per operation. I would like to arrange it such that if an unhandled exception is thrown in a WCF service thread that does not match a valid FaultContract, it takes down the entire process rather than just the thread. (The reason being that I would ...

find source code matched with machine address

Hello everyone, I am debugging a crash dump and I am clear at which address the process crashes. The source code is written in C#. My question is any quick way to find the matched source code related to the crash address? thanks in advance, George ...

How to use WinDbg to analyze the crash dump for VC++ application.

Hi Any one knows how to use the windbg for analyzeing dump file. Please share the info how to analyze crash dump using windbg. Thanks, Haranadh ...

Crash reporting watchdog for when my application locks up on a customer's machine

I'm working with a somewhat unreliable (Qt/windows) application partly written for us by a third party (just trying to shift the blame there). Their latest version is more stable. Sort of. We're getting fewer reports of crashes, but we're getting lots of reports of it just hanging and never coming back. The circumstances are varied, and ...

How to identify problem when program crashes without showing error?

Hello, Please let me know what steps I need to follow when my application crashes and closes showing the dialog containing "Don't send" and "Send error report" buttons. What can I possibly do other than looking at the event viewer to solve this? Thanks ...

Application crash in release mode

I have an application crash in the release mode only (MS VS2005, C++). Based on my analysis so far it appears to be corrupting the heap. I downloaded the Debug Diagnostic tool from MS and as recommended in the tool enabled the PageHeap. The application no longer crases after installing the tool. I am still able to crash in another box w/...

How can I determine the cause of an IIS Crash on a 64-bit Server

I have a .net 2.0 web application that is running on Windows server 2003 Standard x64, using IIS 6. The application pool for our website started crashing recently and I can't determine why. It started happening on a weekend, and the latest release of the website was several days earlier. I have determined that no other changes were made...

Does adplus/cdb crash dumps still work on Vista 64 Ultimate?

I am doing some research on a asp.net bug. I tried to get adplus to give me a crash dump file from IIS crashing. I have done this in the past on XP machines, but with my current Vista Ultimate setup - the adplus script doesn't spawn the 2nd window with CDB running. I am running the adplus cmd window with admin priviledges. Used Tess'...

What is the standard parallel GC called in JVM crash dumps?

When the JVM runs with the -XX:+UseParNewGC we are getting an occasional access violation. When we look at the dump file, we see Heap par new generation total 14784K, used 13689K [0x02bd0000, 0x03bd0000, 0x06950000) eden space 13184K, 100% used [0x02bd0000, 0x038b0000, 0x038b0000) from space 1600K, 31% used [0x03a40000, 0x03abe6...

Help with a mac crash log - what causes NSApplication _terminateSendShould

I have a mac crash log (.crash file) that shows the main thread causing the application to terminate, but I can't tell why. This isn't because the app is terminating itself. I don't think this is also because of an NSException being thrown. Can anyone interpret what this stack might indicate about why the application is terminating? 2 ...

Need help on iphone crash log. Any experts around?

Hello, my iphone app crashes unexpectedly and looking at the crash log I can't tell where my code is doing something wrong. All I get in the stack are calls to the framework it's self. Any help? please! this is the link to the crash log (rather than copy paste it all here) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CTWWNUN1 thanks!!! ...

Dump Analysis with Source, using Visual Studio 2008 Express?

Is there any way to analyze app-crash minidumps (e.g. created by SetUnhandledExceptionFilter, or minidumpwritedump()) with source, using Visual Studio 2008 Express? I generally do this at work using "real" versions of VS, but when trying to get it to work on my personal projects (using VS 2008 Express) it tells me "There is no source ...

Generating .NET crash dumps automatically

I know how to generate Crash Dump files with ADPlus or DebugDiag, but I'm wondering if there is a way to do this on a customer's computer without installing these tools... specifically, I would like to be able to configure my application (using a registry value, for example) to generate a crash dump in the case of a critical failure. M...

Cross-platform crash handler

I'm looking for a cross-platform crash handler. Google Breakpad looks promising, but it is sorely lacking any documentation, and requires a reasonable amount of fiddling to actually get going. What is a better alternative? All I need is the ability to reliably record crash dumps, stack traces, and CPU information at the time of a cras...

Windows 2003 crashing with .NET 3.5 SP1

I have a product I developed based on Linq and Entity Framwork. Before they upgraded to SP1 I got an exeption when I tried to find the Entity Framework DLL. I asked the customer to upgrade to SP1. After that, they are getting bluescreen. Are there any known problems with .NET 3.5 SP1 and Windows 2003? I have a dump file. I downloaded ...

Where does Internet Explorer 8 store its crash dumps?

I am fighting a bug which does not reproduce on my machine, but repeats every time on my client's machine. I've tried everything, and now I am looking for any debug data (or whatever) that IE8 leaves after a crash. Google and Microsoft searches gave me nothing. Where does Internet Explorer 8 store its crash dumps? It definetely sends som...