VS 2010 keeps crashing/freezing when debugging

[Wallace Turner]

Hi, the last 2 weeks VS 2010 has started to crash on me whilst debugging. (not every time but enough times to make it really annoying) I have to kill devenv.exe. Resmon 'Anaylze wait chain' reveals the following: I've attached windbg to the process and run analyze -v which produces the output at the end of this post. Now what do you do? 0:085> !analyze -v ******************************************************************************* *                                                                             * *                        Exception Analysis                                   * *                                                                             * ******************************************************************************* *** WARNING: Unable to verify checksum for C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_32\System\57e066d0b97757dbd26d59302c3d701a\System.ni.dll *** WARNING: Unable to verify checksum for C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_32\mscorlib\e5b31f3bb6508df0dc7c20ddc72f3191\mscorlib.ni.dll *** WARNING: Unable to verify checksum for C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_32\WindowsBase\c0c7b3ff43f1b29cad7dde24bdbd5b79\WindowsBase.ni.dll *** WARNING: Unable to verify checksum for C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_32\Microsoft.VisualStu#\753df24480a2bf04697f85bdfbe9eb3b\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.10.0.ni.dll *** WARNING: Unable to verify checksum for C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_32\Microsoft.Build\62d0dc3633e744e0f255af39c553462b\Microsoft.Build.ni.dll CoInitialize failed 80010106 CoInitialize failed 80010106 GetPageUrlData failed, server returned HTTP status 404 URL requested: http://watson.microsoft.com/StageOne/devenv_exe/10_0_40219_1/4d5f2a73/ntdll_dll/6_1_7601_17725/4ec49b8f/80000003/0001000c.htm?Retriage=1 FAULTING_IP: ntdll!DbgBreakPoint+0 7753000c cc              int     3 EXCEPTION_RECORD:  ffffffff -- (.exr 0xffffffffffffffff) ExceptionAddress: 7753000c (ntdll!DbgBreakPoint)    ExceptionCode: 80000003 (Break instruction exception)   ExceptionFlags: 00000000 NumberParameters: 1    Parameter[0]: 00000000 FAULTING_THREAD:  000014f4 DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID:  WRONG_SYMBOLS PROCESS_NAME:  devenv.exe ERROR_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0x80000003 - {EXCEPTION}  Breakpoint  A breakpoint has been reached. EXCEPTION_CODE: (HRESULT) 0x80000003 (2147483651) - One or more arguments are invalid EXCEPTION_PARAMETER1:  00000000 MOD_LIST: *** ERROR: Could not build analysis XML NTGLOBALFLAG:  0 APPLICATION_VERIFIER_FLAGS:  0 MANAGED_STACK: !dumpstack -EE OS Thread Id: 0x14f4 (85) Current frame: ChildEBP RetAddr  Caller, Callee PRIMARY_PROBLEM_CLASS:  WRONG_SYMBOLS BUGCHECK_STR:  APPLICATION_FAULT_WRONG_SYMBOLS LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER:  from 775bf896 to 7753000c STACK_TEXT:  3c4fff20 775bf896 47ac06f8 00000000 00000000 ntdll!DbgBreakPoint 3c4fff50 755a339a 00000000 3c4fff9c 77559ef2 ntdll!DbgUiRemoteBreakin+0x3c 3c4fff5c 77559ef2 00000000 47ac0634 00000000 kernel32!BaseThreadInitThunk+0xe 3c4fff9c 77559ec5 775bf85a 00000000 00000000 ntdll!__RtlUserThreadStart+0x70 3c4fffb4 00000000 775bf85a 00000000 00000000 ntdll!_RtlUserThreadStart+0x1b FOLLOWUP_IP: ntdll!DbgBreakPoint+0 7753000c cc              int     3 SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX:  0 SYMBOL_NAME:  ntdll!DbgBreakPoint+0 FOLLOWUP_NAME:  MachineOwner MODULE_NAME: ntdll IMAGE_NAME:  ntdll.dll DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP:  4ec49b8f STACK_COMMAND:  ~85s ; kb FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  WRONG_SYMBOLS_80000003_ntdll.dll!DbgBreakPoint BUCKET_ID:  APPLICATION_FAULT_WRONG_SYMBOLS_ntdll!DbgBreakPoint+0 WATSON_STAGEONE_URL:  http://watson.microsoft.com/StageOne/devenv_exe/10_0_40219_1/4d5f2a73/ntdll_dll/6_1_7601_17725/4ec49b8f/80000003/0001000c.htm?Retriage=1 Followup: MachineOwner ---------