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Old 02-14-2008   #1 (permalink)
TheCroW


 
 

WLM crashes my PC?? Log has proof!

WLM 8.5.1302.1018 on Windows XP Home SP2 (Dutch).

Well, finally did find the patern: since that I am using WLM, my PC crashes
at random!
It *only* happens when WLM is running: Windows closes by itself and my PC is
then restarting.

I did check the XP log files and at the moment of the crashes, it is saying
(roughly translated from Dutch) that something is written in the
msnmsgr database
(...\SharingMetadata\Working\database_3094_6CC_9406_950E\dfsr.db)
and that is connected with ESENT. Then the next lines in the log are all
with
red crosses in front (right at the exact time of PC crash), all with those
ESENT notices and saying something like:

"Trying to read from
C:\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot2\{00AAC56B-CD44-11D0-8CC2-00C04FC295EE}\catdb
with a place to 0 (0x0000000000000000) voor 4096 (0x00001000) bytes failed
....."

And all the notices with the red crosses and EVENT have event ID 481.
Did check on MS Support but can't find anything. But I did find 1 notice on
a site where it states that that ESENT thing and errors are conected with
the MSN Sharing Folders. So, I'll see if disabeling that does work.

All in all, I am 100% sure due to the LOG-files that WLM is causing these
crashes.
Anything known about this?

Menno



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Old 02-14-2008   #2 (permalink)
TheCroW


 
 

Re: WLM crashes my PC?? Log has proof! (probebal solution)

> WLM 8.5.1302.1018 on Windows XP Home SP2 (Dutch).
Quote:

>
> Well, finally did find the patern: since that I am using WLM, my PC
> crashes
> at random!
> It *only* happens when WLM is running: Windows closes by itself and my PC
> is
> then restarting.
==< snip

Well, did some more searching and it turns out that I am not the only one
(Phew! ;-)) )
Did see some more issues now and all have to do with WLM. Turns out that
indeed the prob is caused by that Sharing stuff.

Disabling the "Messenger Sharing Folders USN Journal Reader service" in
Services should fix it.

I'll wait and see.

Menno


My System SpecsSystem Spec
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