[APBeta] SERIOUS CRASH -- AP v2.012b will not start (work-around available)

[Jeff Young]

The JIT comes up for me for some Astroplanner crashes.  Might be a side-effect of having DevStudio installed?  (I don't have .NET, for what it's worth.)

-- Jeff.


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> RPEHLM
> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 9:21 PM
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> Subject: Re: [APBeta] SERIOUS CRASH -- AP v2.012b will not start (work-around available)
> 
>  >Most odd. I don't know what the JIT debugger is, but I would've
> thought that would be for .NET apps only.
> Depends on what has been defined as the default debugger.  It can be
> changed but I forget how right now.  Could look it up though if needed.
> 
> Robin
> 
> Paul Rodman wrote:
> >
> > On Dec 26, 2008, at 03:54 PM, Gary A. Ferguson wrote:
> >
> >> I have not been able to reproduce this crash
> >>
> >> I had done lots of things in AP
> >> I closed all open documents, so that only the application menu bar
> >> window remained open.
> >> Browsed to a folder from within Windows Explorer and double-clicked
> >> on a converted plan.
> >> Immediately got a Visual Studio JIT debugger window, asking me if I
> >> wanted to debug the application. Clicked cancel.
> >> Tried again, same result.
> >> Tried to open a plan document from within AP, same result.
> >> Closed AP, opened AP -- got the jit debugger during application
> >> startup (before it asked about opening a plan.)
> >> Tried holding down the shift key while starting AP, got the jit
> >> debugger again.
> >> Logged off, logged back on, tried to start AP again, same result.
> >
> > Most odd. I don't know what the JIT debugger is, but I would've
> > thought that would be for .NET apps only.
> >
> >> Started AP1.6 to look at the manual to see if I remember about the
> >> shift key correctly.
> >> Closed AP1.6 and NOTICED THAT THE ICONS FOR THE v2 plans had been
> >> CHANGED to the v1.6 icon
> >
> > Currently V2 uses V1 plan doc icons. My tame graphic designer is on
> > vacation. When she gets back, she has promised to work on the document
> > icons.
> >
> >> Double-clicking a v2 plan now started up v1.6 (albeit not with that
> >> plan open, since it was a v2 plan)
> >> Re-installed v2.0b12
> >
> > The problem is that V1, as I recall, modifies the registry whenever it
> > runs.
> >
> >> V2 now starts. I can now also double-click a v2 plan and have it open
> >> in v2.
> >> I also noticed that v1.6 plans now display the v2 file icon, although
> >> if you dbl-click on them, v1.6 opens.
> >
> > They should, in either case, display the V1 plan doc icon. Only the
> > application icon has changed in V2 (so far).
> >
> >> There is not a errorlog.txt file in the v2 directory, is it not
> >> created? Or did I wipe it out when I re-installed (didn't think to
> >> look before re-installing.)
> >
> > It would be on the desktop (for V2). Nothing ever gets stored in the
> > V2 application folder, since in Vista and XP, this is not done.
> >
> > Paul R.
> >
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