<strike>Drag and Drop Dead</strike>Lotus Notes Thread
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So, I get an Excel sheet emailed to me at work. So far, so good. I go to drag and drop it from the preview pane to a Windows Explorer window....and BANG. "nlnotes.exe has stopped working." I whack Debug and push a few more buttons to toss the corpse into VS2012 for a digital autopsy, and this comes out:
followed by this beast of a backtrace:
The next best part: this is a regression from Notes 8.5. Way to go, Lotus!
The absolute best part: Notes itself doesn't die from the crash. It simply gets left in a coma, unable to function until you kill the rest of it with Task Manager and restart it.
Bonus Discourse bug: the "x to go for the title" counter stopped updating, leaving me unable to post until I cut the post body, reloaded the page (as cancel left a grey ghost of the topic editor behind), and tried again.
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I don't know if we should allow Lotus Notes posts in the Sidebar, since literally every operation Notes does ever is a WTF.
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Does that mean we need a new category alongside the IHOC category just for Lotes Nuts?
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I don't know if we should allow Lotus Notes posts in the Sidebar, since literally every operation Notes does ever is a WTF.
Does that mean we need a new category alongside the IHOC category just for Lotes Nuts?
Lotes Nuts Club. This. Will flag thread and request its creation.
P.S. Follow-up: it crashed on two subsequent tries (the third time, I opened the email instead of using the preview pane, and it still crashed). It worked on the fourth try, though. /rolleyes
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That stack trace doesn't look too long to me. (I write complex webapps with Java. 200 frames deep isn't that unusual even in non-recursive code.) Most of it will be uninformative, but that's always the case with deep traces.
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Fixed. This is now the OFFICIAL lotus notes thread.
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I whack Debug and push a few more buttons to toss the corpse into VS2012 for a digital autopsy,
I wonder what you've expected to achieve there, having no symbols for the actually useful part. Unless you wanted to read the assembly, but I'd rather eat a piece of my backyard than dive into Notes' binaries.
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I wonder what you've expected to achieve there, having no symbols for the actually useful part. Unless you wanted to read the assembly, but I'd rather eat a piece of my backyard than dive into Notes' binaries.
At least I was able to figure out something about just what was happening at the time of death. (My reckoning is it stomped on a heap block unwittingly, then proceeded to pass it off to DoDragDrop) Besides, the VS debugger can also spit out a minidump file that I can have our support folks include with the bug report.
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Wait a minute, is Notes no longer running in Eclipse?
