AW: AW: O$4.3.1 crashing on Terminal Server

[Krüger, Stefanie]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the hint - no message anymore and it even doesn't crash anymore!

Regards,
Steffi

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com [mailto:omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com] Im Auftrag von Peter van Rooij
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. April 2009 09:42
An: OmnisDev List - English
Betreff: Re: AW: O$4.3.1 crashing on Terminal Server


Hello Stefi

The problems with zerodivide might be solved by setting the attribute
$reportcalculationerrors to kfalse
It is an attribute of the library, under the Prefs tabpane.

Greetings

Peter


On 8 apr 2009, at 09:21, Krüger, Stefanie wrote:

> Hi Mary,
>
> I just upgraded my customers from Studio 3.2.1 to Studio 4.3.1.4.
> They were running 3.2.1 on Terminal Server for years without any
> problems apart from the known issues with missing or wrong or
> corrupt printer drivers at startup.
> Now they have several crashes a day and are not amused to have payed
> money for worsen their situation...
>
> There are 2 things I found out already:
> - Ole2auto.dll from 4.3.1.4 is buggy (not a Terminal Server issue!).
> I reported this to Tech Support and got a new one. Crashes reduced a
> bit after installing it.
>
> - 3.2.1 was quit forgiving about zerodivide. In reports it just
> showed a '?' as a result and continued execution. 4.3.1.4 reacts in
> 2 ways: sometimes it issues an error message, in other cases it just
> crashes. I can't see any difference in the code, in both cases it's
> just a calulate x as y/z where z is 0. This one also is not related
> to Terminal Server. I sent a lib and some Dr.Watsons about this to
> Tech Support yesterday evening.
>
> So maybe your crashes are not related to terminal server but to
> "normal" bugs in Studio 4?
>
> Regards,
> Steffi
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com
> [mailto:omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com
> ] Im Auftrag von Mary Whittaker
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. April 2009 07:12
> An: OmnisDev List - English
> Betreff: O$4.3.1 crashing on Terminal Server
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> We are trying to run our Omnis app on Windows Terminal Server and
> encountering a bizarre error :
>
>        Quitting Omnis due to unrecoverable error.
>        Unexpected error code : 1
>        APPFMT.CPP:4645
>
> Omnis Tech Support have indicated that they don't support Omnis
> running on Terminal Server (or Citrix or Winframe), although they know
> that many developers happily do.  They have referred us to this list
> for help!!
>
> I have driven myself nuts trying to diagnose the cause of the problem,
> because it is quite random, but here are some things that I have found
> so far.
>
> 1)      It crashes if the client is Remote Desktop.  It doesn't
> crash if
> the client is CoRD (on Mac).  (However, CoRd does ugly things to some
> of the graphics !)
> 2)      It crashes if the user on the windows machine is the same on
> both
> sessions or different
> 3)      It often crashes when we open a module that opens a separate
> library (but not always).  When we open a separate library we copy
> objects from the main library to the secondary library and I was
> wondering if this might cause access violation issues.
> 4)      The secondary library contained a timer procedure.  However, I
> turned it off and it made no difference.
>
> I will keep experimenting, but was wondering if anyone has any ideas
> about what could cause such as problem.  It may save me a lot of time
> (and a lot of hair !!)
>
>
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Mary Whittaker
> Senior Business Analyst
>
>
>
>
>
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