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  • Recurring sbbs_ctrl crash

    From poindexter FORTRAN@poindexter.fortran@REALITY.remove-ab9-this to All on Tue Jun 9 23:03:42 2020
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

    Hi, all -- I'm having an issue with sbbs_ctrl.exe crashing every 12 hours or so. I've tried disabling any unnecessary services and am looking for suggestions on where to go next.

    Windows 10 32-bit, Synchronet updated on May 30th.

    Faulting application name: sbbsctrl.exe, version: 3.18.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
    Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.18362.815, time stamp: 0x3d532d7e
    Exception code: 0xc0000005
    Fault offset: 0x0003de11
    Faulting process id: 0x1290
    Faulting application start time: 0x01d63dfa427839ab
    Faulting application path: C:\sbbs\exec\sbbsctrl.exe
    Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
    Report Id: b4be2573-db68-4f0a-ae04-11cb303bef9f
    Faulting package full name:
    Faulting package-relative application ID:

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  • From Digital Man@digital.man@vert.synchro.net.remove-rrv-this to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Jun 11 04:26:10 2020
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

    To: poindexter FORTRAN
    Re: Recurring sbbs_ctrl crash
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Tue Jun 09 2020 04:03 pm

    Hi, all -- I'm having an issue with sbbs_ctrl.exe crashing every 12 hours or so. I've tried disabling any unnecessary services and am looking for suggestions on where to go next.

    Windows 10 32-bit, Synchronet updated on May 30th.

    Faulting application name: sbbsctrl.exe, version: 3.18.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
    Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.18362.815, time stamp: 0x3d532d7e
    Exception code: 0xc0000005
    Fault offset: 0x0003de11
    Faulting process id: 0x1290
    Faulting application start time: 0x01d63dfa427839ab
    Faulting application path: C:\sbbs\exec\sbbsctrl.exe
    Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
    Report Id: b4be2573-db68-4f0a-ae04-11cb303bef9f
    Faulting package full name:
    Faulting package-relative application ID:

    Unfortunately that error isn't helpful. If it was crashing in a Synchronet DLL (not ntdll.dll), that'd help isolate it. At that point, just try disabling certain servers (e.g. the mail server, the ftp server, services) until you've isolated the problem to one server and then look at its log file when the crash happens and copy/paste those last log lines here.

    digital man

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@poindexter.fortran@REALITY.remove-du2-this to Digital Man on Fri Jun 19 04:06:55 2020
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

    To: Digital Man
    Re: Recurring sbbs_ctrl crash
    By: Digital Man to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Jun 10 2020 09:26 pm

    Faulting application name: sbbsctrl.exe, version: 3.18.0.0, time stamp:
    0x00000000
    Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.18362.815, time stamp:
    0x3d532d7e
    Exception code: 0xc0000005
    Fault offset: 0x0003de11


    So, I took all of the servers out, and it looks like when I include the HSTS option for the web server, the crash happens. I don't see any log files in the LOGS directory that look like they reflect serving https, and there's nothing out of the ordinary looking in the error log.

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  • From Digital Man@digital.man@vert.synchro.net.remove-s59-this to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Jun 21 20:58:47 2020
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    To: poindexter FORTRAN
    Re: Recurring sbbs_ctrl crash
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Thu Jun 18 2020 09:06 pm

    Re: Recurring sbbs_ctrl crash
    By: Digital Man to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Jun 10 2020 09:26 pm

    Faulting application name: sbbsctrl.exe, version: 3.18.0.0, time stamp: >> 0x00000000
    Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.18362.815, time stamp:
    0x3d532d7e
    Exception code: 0xc0000005
    Fault offset: 0x0003de11


    So, I took all of the servers out, and it looks like when I include the HSTS option for the web server, the crash happens. I don't see any log files in the LOGS directory that look like they reflect serving https, and there's nothing out of the ordinary looking in the error log.

    That's a good tip. That's a feature that Deuce added and I don't know how well its been tested. If you enable all the debug-log options for the web server, that might provide more clues, but the best thing to get from the crash would be a backtrace. Backtraces are much easier to obtain if you build the code yourself and building the code yourself is easier on *nix.

    So... any *nix sysop try this HSTS feature and maybe have a crash backtrace they can share?

    digital man

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