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- Rosebud
- Tips on reporting problems
- Date: 30May95
-
- To help the developers fix the problems you are having it is most
- helpful to have as much relavent information as possible. This
- information includes things like the exact steps you took that led to
- the problem occuring, and debug logs. Unfortunanity, most of these
- items are not very useful unless the problem can be reproduced reliably.
-
- Also all of these files probably are not needed in all cases. So, try
- and use some common sense in trying to decide which of these files would
- probaly be needed to track down your problem.
-
- It is also useful to try and describe all steps that you took that led
- up to the problem. Try and think of what you did that was different
- than what one normally does in performing whatever you were tying to do.
- For example, donÆt describe a problem as ôI added a financial reporter
- and it GPFÆedö This does not provide any useful information. Instead
- describe the problem like: ôThe Viewer GPFÆed after I did the following:
- 1. Clicked on the Financial icon.
- 2. Clicked the Add button
- 3. Added 122 stock symbols to collect
- 4. Added retrieval times:
- every 30 minutes MoTuWeThFe from 9:00am to 4:30pm
- 7:30pm on MoTuWeThFe
- 5. Clicked on OK and got GPF in CMPSRVCF.DLL at 0004:93D3
-
- All bug reports should be emailed to æ>MHS: support@mageeÆ (this is in
- the Rosebud address book) with any of the following files included as
- attachments.
-
- Below are some other files that can be very helpful. If any of the
- following files are relavent, please include them (zipped into 1 file if
- at all possible) as an attachment in the bug report email message.
-
- Dr Watson Logs
- Dr Watson is an application that comes with Windows that allows you to
- get detailed information from an application that has a General
- Protection Fault (GPF). The tricky part is that this program
- (DRWATSON.EXE) must be running when the GPF occurs for it to be able to
- provide any information on the state of the system at the time of the
- GPF.
-
- So, if you are having a problem that occurs every time or very
- frequently, you should start Dr Watson before you start the problematic
- program. Then after the program GPFs, a log file will be placed in the
- Windows directory called DRWATSON.LOG that will contain information that
- is very useful in tracking down what was going on when the program died.
-
- DEBUG.LOG
- Rosebud has the capability of generating a detailed log file of
- everything it does. To enable this logging capability edit the file
- DEBUG.SET. The first line should look like æ#%debug.logÆ to enable
- logging simply remove the æ#Æ. Now all activity is reported to this log
- file. This is not enabled by default because it degrades performance a
- fair amount. So, you will want to turn it on to run the programs in
- question just once (to get to the error) and then turn it off again (by
- adding back the æ#Æ).
-
- RUN.LOG
- Rosebud has various levels of logging that can be used during the
- collection of information. This logging is written to the file RUN.LOG.
- If you are having a problem in the Collection Agent you will want to set
- the logging level to Log All (in the Assignment Desk æOptionsÆ button or
- through the æLog OptionsÆ item in the File menu in Collect).
-
- COMMPORT.LOG
- If you are having a problem in the Collection Agent and it appears to be
- related to a communications issue, it is VERY helpful to have a copy of
- the COMMPORT.LOG. This file contains everything the Collection Agent
- sent to CompuServe and everything CompuServe sent back.
-
- To enable communications logging edit the WA.INI file and in the
- [CompuServe] section change the line that reads æLogComms=0Æ to
- æLogComms=1Æ.
-
- MSD report
- If you at all think the error may be happening because of a
- configuration problem, please include a copy of the report generated by
- ôMSD.EXE /p MSD.RPTö. This will give a detailed description of your
- computer.
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