I have created a service using C# with Visual Studio 2010. Using .NET Framework v4.0. Running on Windows 7, 32 bit machine. The service calls into a native DLL I created. This DLL is throwing an access violation.
I can't debug it and need help.
I start the service and run my IDE as Administrator. The service is running under the same user account as I am logged into the machine as. I attach to the service using Managed v4.0 and Native attach code types. But when it crashes, a dialog pops up that says "An unhandled Microsoft .NET framework exception occurred" in my app. "The Just-In-Time debugger was launched without necessary security permissions. To debug this process, the Just-In-Time debugger must be run as an Administrator. Would you like to debug this process?". Even though I launched Visual Studio with "Run As Administrator".
When I click "Yes" I get another warning "The current debugger is configured to debug code that uses Microsoft .NET Framework v1.0, 1.1, or 2.0. An unhandled exception is being thrown from .NET Framework v4.0 code". Even though I attach to the process using Managed v4.0 and Native. (I've tried just with Managed v4.0 and get same results).
I click okay, and launch a new instance of the IDE. The IDE then displays a warning that says it is "Unable to attach to the crashing process. A debugger is already attached."
So I try again, this time without attaching debugger hoping to get the same JIT pop-up so I can then attach after the crash, but I don't. The process just goes away or I get the usual dialog about creating a mini dump and sending it to Microsoft.
So I tried settling for full crash dump.
I followed the instructions at Collecting User-Mode Dumps to create full dumps. I'll watch as WerFault.exe starts in task manager and watch the file get created and when WerFault it's done, either the crash dump disappears or stack trace is missing native code.
I seem to have similar problems debugging .NET processes from time to time. How can I reliably configure my computer so I can get JIT debugging?
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On Windows 10 and using Visual Studio 2015, I'm trying to debug a WPF C# application that incorporates C++ PInvokes. After the app starts, a particular execution path causes the app to crash, which then shows this message:
vshost32.exe has stopped working
A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if the solution is available.
I take the "Debug" option provided on that dialogue, and then it says:
A debugger is attached to MyWpfApp.exe but not configured to debug this unhandled exception. To debug this exception, detach the current debugger.
This is frustrating. When the crash occurs, it is being debugged by Visual Studio 2015. Why is it "not configured to debug" this problem? Can the configuration be modified to catch this?
At this point I'm stuck. I tried issuing a "detach all" command to VS 2015, so that the OS can start a new debugger, but VS 2015 refuses to detach. If I instead simply stop VS2015, then the OS says that the crash can no longer be debugged, because the process was terminated.
In short, I can't debug the problem - even though I have best-in-the-industry tools pointed directly at it.
Any suggestions of how to debug this mysterious crash?
I do have additional information about this problem, because I also tried to debug it on a Windows 7 machine within Visual Studio 2013. It has the same crash. In this case, the crash simply causes the debug session in VS 2013 to suddenly end without warning - as if the program had terminated gracefully. In an effort to capture the crash, I activated crash dump capture via Windows Error Reporting (WER).
It worked! First, I got this info:
Unhandled exception at 0x77BC46A9 (msvcr120.dll) in MyWpfApp.exe: An invalid parameter was passed to a function that considers invalid parameters fatal.
The stack trace then showed me the exact line of managed code that transitions into unmanaged, and eventually reaches msvcr120 which crashes.
Unfortunately, after this initial success, my debugging success ended here because suddenly the WER configuration on the Windows 7 development machine simply stopped capturing any further crashes. I thought it was code changes I had made which jinxed WER, but when I reverted my changes WER continued to be unaware that the application was crashing.
So in the end, this crash is doing its best to be untrappable - preventing me from capturing a crash dump. I also tried running the app from the command prompt, and attaching sysinternals procdump to it:
c:\>procdump -ma -e -accepteula -x . MyWpfApp.exe
Surprisingly, this also didn't work. The OS caught the crash and reported it, while procdump was entirely unaware the crash had occurred.
Is there a "bigger hammer" I can use that will ensure I can capture crash dumps?
I've copied over the content of the Debug folder on a Windows 7 VM and a Windows Vista laptop. Both had Dot Net 4.5 installed. All assemblies are set to copy local and AFAIK I don't reference anything not in the application folder. When I run the app on the two different developer computers (one Win8, one Win7) it runs fine as it does when running it in Visual Studio (F5).
Not so on the deployment computers. The problem is that I get no error message. Absolutely nothing happens after I double click the executable on the non-development machines.
I tried starting it in WinDbg.exe and got this output: http://pastebin.com/43PbwyGx
So how to I go about debugging this to find out what's missing?
looking at your WindDbg dump you have an 2nd Chance Execption of CLR exception - code e0434352 (!!! second chance !!!).
I would look at this article by Igor Dvorkin, Why do I keep getting exception code e0434352.
Where he discusses it being a generic exception and how to fire up the cdb to find what the underlying exception was.
He also links to another of his blog posts, Finding CLR exceptions without visual studio where he describes using cdb.
Are the dev machines 64-bit but the other machines 32-bit? If this is the case and you're building as AnyCPU, then all your references also need to be AnyCPU (or match the platform your program is running under). If you build as x64, then I think all your references need to be x64 as well, and the same goes for x86.
Usually the exception you'll see in this case is a BadImageFormatException (it's also typically logged to the Windows Application Event Log with a source of Side By Side Configuration).
Also, just an FYI, sometimes you might be able to find the exception in the Windows Event Log. I think it's the Application Log, and I think the Source is usually .NET Runtime, or Application Error. The details may include both the actual exception as well as a stack trace.
I'm not sure what conditions need to be true for these errors to be logged, but it's something to consider.
My application crashes after some time but I can't find any pattern. I was able to get my hands on crash dump. Application runs on Windows Mobile 6.5. It is written in C#. It uses Imaging API, PInvoks and lots of threads.
When I debugged that dump with Visual Studio 2008, in output it displayed "First-chance exception at 0x782260ec in xxx.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation"
Call Stack shows 2 entries. But I can't match any of them to call from my code.
windbg.exe indicates that this error occurs in "netcfagl3_5.dll"
Are there some special techniques to analyze dump files from Windows Mobile??
0xC0000005: Access violation means that one of your p/invokes are incorrect. The call tried to write to a memory area which it doesn't have access to (which is typical if the definition is incorrect).
Your dump should contain a stack trace too?
'First-chance exception' usually means an exception that has been handled by user code. If you're using the Vosual Studio & the Windows Mobile emulator for debug then you can turn off exception handling. Go to Debug > Exceptions and check the 'Thrown' column for Win32 Exceptions. Then run the program and try and get it to fall over again.
When the debug runs it will halt execution and break to the debugger when it hits that 'first-chance exception' allowing you to see what is causing that, and see if it's in any way related.
The 'netcfagl3_5.dll' library is part of .NET CF, not your code, which is why you can't match up the debug symbols.
You will need to download windbg, Visual Studio 2008 won't do Post Mortem .NET debugging.
If your development machine is 64-bit, see "How to use Windbg to debug a dump of a 32bit .NET app running on a x64 machine"
Otherwise, see Post Mortem Debug under Windows Mobile with WinDbg. also do some searching on "Windows Mobile Post Mortem Debug".
The best (by far) and easiest way, though is to reproduce this issue while running on the debugger. Post mortem .net debugging is NOT easy.
-PaulH
All,
I have a console application which is written in .NET 3.5 which retrieves data from a database, does some calculations and post messages in a message queue.
I run the .exe on my PC which runs without any problems. Deploying the .exe in a 64 bit server the application suddenly stops without any errors and when I use the DebugView utility I can see the below error.
[6276] Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A09C12F) (80131506)
I tried compiling with x64, x86 and Any CPU but still the same problem. I tried deploying to another server and still same situation. Anyone has an idea how I should proceed to determine the root cause?
Many Thanks,
MK
Capture a crash dump and analyze it for the root cause.
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If you like, open a support case via http://support.microsoft.com
I'm doing something bad in my ASP.NET app. It could be the any number of CTP libraries I'm using or I'm just not disposing something properly. But when I redeploy my ASP.NET to my Vista IIS7 install or my server's IIS6 install I crash an IIS worker process.
I've narrowed the problem down to my HTTP crawler, which is a multithreaded beast that crawls sites for useful information when asked to. After I start a crawler and redeploy the app over the top, rather than gracefully unloading the appDomain and reloading, an IIS worker process will crash (popping up a crash message) and continue reloading the app domain.
When this crash happens, where can I find the crash dump for analysis?
Download Debugging tools for Windows:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/DevTools/Debugging/default.mspx
Debugging Tools for Windows has has a script (ADPLUS) that allows you to create dumps when a process CRASHES:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/286350
The command should be something like (if you are using IIS6):
cscript adplus.vbs -crash -pn w3wp.exe
This command will attach the debugger to the worker process. When the crash occurs it will generate a dump (a *.DMP file).
You can open it in WinDBG (also included in the Debugging Tools for Windows). File > Open Crash dump...
By default, WinDBG will show you (next to the command line) the thread were the process crashed.
The first thing you need to do in WinDBG is to load the .NET Framework extensions:
.loadby sos mscorwks
then, you will display the managed callstack:
!clrstack
if the thread was not running managed code, then you'll need to check the native stack:
kpn 200
This should give you some ideas. To continue troubleshooting I recommend you read the following article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee817663.aspx
A quick search found IISState - it relies on the Windows debugging tools and needs to be running when a crash occurs, but given the circumstances you've described, this shouldn't be a problem,