VS2008 crashes on exit
Hi, I have a new machine with Vista and VS2008 RTM. I installed Resharper (had to install via cmd prompt with admin priveledges) and whenever VS exits it crashes. I tried to disable the Resharper addin and this caused VS to crash as well. I have tried this twice from a HDD image created before VS and Resharper were installed. The version of Resharper is 3.1 RC3.
Thanks
SurfRat
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Hello Surf,
do I understand correctly that VS crashes even without ReSharper installed?
If so, this is probably a VS issue.
Dmitry Shaporenkov
JetBrains, Inc
http://www.jetbrains.com
"Develop with pleasure!"
If I uninstall R# VS is fine. I tested VS before installing R# and it was also OK. As soon as I install it I have the problem. I even tried the official release on your home page (older build)
which showed the same problem.
Thanks
SurfRat
Hello Surf,
so as far as I understand it, VS crashes even with ReSharper disabled. How
does it crash - i.e. does it show the error dialog?
Dmitry Shaporenkov
JetBrains, Inc
http://www.jetbrains.com
"Develop with pleasure!"
I was not able to disable R# as it crashed while trying to disable it. The crash result is the standard "This program is not responding" followed by "Searching for a solution". There are no error messages. Can you suggest a way to get more info on the error?
My PC is a brand new install with all the Windows patches and very little else. I am using AVG antivirus.
Thanks
SurfRat.
Hello Surf,
I think that the best way to diagnose the problem is to attach a debugger
to the hung instance of VS (another instance of VS or the DbgCLR program
may serve as a debugger) in the managed mode
and capture stack traces of all managed threads.
Dmitry Shaporenkov
JetBrains, Inc
http://www.jetbrains.com
"Develop with pleasure!"
Another recommendation would be to start devenv (VS2008's main executable)
with the /log argument. That'll log everything that occurs and you can parse
through that.
Finally, if that doesn't work out well, you can start it with /SafeMode which
will just load the default environment without plugins and such.
Good luck!
-dl
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>> I was not able to disable R# as it crashed while trying to disable
>> it. The crash result is the standard "This program is not
>> responding" followed by "Searching for a solution". There are no
>> error messages. Can you suggest a way to get more info on the error?
>>
>> My PC is a brand new install with all the Windows patches and very
>> little else. I am using AVG antivirus.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> SurfRat.
>>
Hello David,
unfortunately /Log option only records certain types of events like extension
and add-ins loading and packages inititialization. It would be very difficult
if not impossible to relate those events
to the crash point.
Dmitry Shaporenkov
JetBrains, Inc
http://www.jetbrains.com
"Develop with pleasure!"
>> Hello Surf,
>>
>> I think that the best way to diagnose the problem is to attach a
>> debugger
>> to the hung instance of VS (another instance of VS or the DbgCLR
>> program
>> may serve as a debugger) in the managed mode
>> and capture stack traces of all managed threads.
>> Dmitry Shaporenkov
>> JetBrains, Inc
>> http://www.jetbrains.com
>> "Develop with pleasure!"
>>> I was not able to disable R# as it crashed while trying to disable
>>> it. The crash result is the standard "This program is not
>>> responding" followed by "Searching for a solution". There are no
>>> error messages. Can you suggest a way to get more info on the error?
>>>
>>> My PC is a brand new install with all the Windows patches and very
>>> little else. I am using AVG antivirus.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> SurfRat.
>>>
Hi,
I ran VS with the /safemode option and it ran OK. I then ran VS with the log option. The log is attached. I will try more indepth debugging options on the weekend.
Thanks
SurfRat.
Attachment(s):
log.txt
Hello Surf,
the only suspicious entry in the log is the one below:
Dmitry Shaporenkov
JetBrains, Inc
http://www.jetbrains.com
"Develop with pleasure!"
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Hello Surf,
Microsoft Visual Studio
Error checking App Path
the only suspicious entry in the log is the one below:
10 Error
80070005 - E_ACCESSDENIED ]]>
Could you please check if you're running VS under with administrative privileges
and, if no, does running as an administrator
make any difference? And I would still try to attach the debugger as I proposed
before.
Dmitry Shaporenkov
JetBrains, Inc
http://www.jetbrains.com
"Develop with pleasure!"
Hi,
I tried running VS as administrator but it made no difference. I then ran VS in safe mode and it exited fine with no crash. I then ran as normal but disabled all my startup items and as many services and processes that I could but I still got the crash when VS exited.
Can you please give me detailed instruction on how to attach another instance of VS to the original running VS as I tried this but could not get any meaningful results.
Thanks
SurfRat
I finally found the cause to my problem. The solution was to remove
the nVidia Network Access Manager which gets installed with the nForce 680I SLI Vista motherboard drivers. I subsequently found out that this has caused lots of problems in other areas for other users as well.
Thanks for all your help in trying to track this down
SurfRat.
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