[RBG7-L] - Re: rbase crash

[Scott Sherer]

Hi David,   Thanks very much for your ideas and comments.  Currently, the problem occurs on all workstations (windows XP and windows 2000).  I can cause it to happen at will on any machine.  We have moved the RBTI path to a local machine on one critical workstation where running local seems to help.   Scott Sherer   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David M. Blocker Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 10:46 AM To: RBG7-L Mailing List Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: rbase crash   Scott   99 times out of 100 in my experience, this kind of problem is related to a hardware problem with one or more workstations, or network setup issue.  It can be VERY frustrating to track it down, but what's required is a systematic record keeping / testing over a period of time.    First gather some data:   1.  Do the problems occur on ALL workstations, or are some reporting more often than others?  If you don't have this information, ask your users to cooperate in keeping a simple tally sheet of the number of occurances per day per workstation.  see if there is  a pattern.   2.  If it's happening more often on some workstations than others, check network wiring / slave card on those workstations.  You could even try NOT USING those for a day or two and see if it helps the others as well.  That will tell you it's workstation based.   3. If it's happening equally often on all, then it's most likely a network setup issue.   David Blocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 781-784-1919 Fax: 781-784-1860 Cell: 339-206-0261 ----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Sherer To: RBG7-L Mailing List Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 9:04 AM Subject: [RBG7-L] - rbase crash   Hello everyone,   My company has been experiencing an Rbase bug and I’ve reported it several times on the rbase website.  The developers say they can’t reproduce the problem and yet it happens ten to twenty times per day in my company.  (bug 71526).  We’re running an eleven user license and running patch 73. Our file server is netware 5.1 and our workstations are windows XP.  This bug occurs under two scenarios.   Scenario 1: If you start two copies of Rbase on the same workstation within a second or two of each other.  The first copy of Rbase starts successfully.  The second copy of Rbase (pointing to a different database) fails within a few seconds of starting with the following message. “unable to find help.rid”.  After displaying the message, Rbase goes into a loop. While in the loop it acquires 250 megabytes of memory and everything crashes on the workstation, requiring a reboot of the workstation.   Secenario 2: We have Set Timeout 30 in all of our programs.  My employees complain that they have to terminate Rbase when they’re done using it because when the timeout occurs, Rbase fails as in Scenario 1 above.  Same symptoms…   The Rbase development folks don’t believe me and yet this is a huge problem for us.  Has anyone else experienced this?   Scott Sherer