You have already provided me with 6.2.1. I have already installed it and emailed you server_startup.txt on Fri 3/22/2013 at 12:39 PM CST


This software was working perfectly fine before upgrading to 6.2.0. You will not be able to easily reproduce it. We have multiple servers running Server 2003 32bit, and upgraded all of them at the same time. This is the only server that is broken.

Could you try the following.

1. stop the VisualCron service
2. download and overwrite the contents in the attached zip file in the VisualCron folder
3. start the service again
4. test the Task

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Also, here is a standalong test app which you can try. Extract the files and run the exe in. Let me know the output.

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I followed the steps Henrik, these are the results.

Only SevenZipSharp.dll (August 17, 2011, 0.64.3890.29348) was in "C:\Program Files\VisualCron". The other 2 files were not in the directory. I added all 3 to the aforementioned directory.

Once I replaced the files, the service will start, then stop.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7034
Date: 3/26/2013
Time: 11:15:00 AM
User: N/A
Computer:
Description:
The VisualCron service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 3 time(s).

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp .

server_startup.txt

3/26/2013 11:14:58 AM Debug Starting up
3/26/2013 11:14:59 AM Debug Loading settings
3/26/2013 11:14:59 AM Debug Preparing SqlCe files (x86) from base folder: C:\Program Files\VisualCron\x86\sqlce
3/26/2013 11:15:00 AM Debug Startup failed, ex: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'SevenZipSharp, Version=0.64.3890.29348, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=20de82c62b055c88' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)
File name: 'SevenZipSharp, Version=0.64.3890.29348, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=20de82c62b055c88'
at OBOKIIHBDBPMCFALPGECCIFHCDJPEDKODDGK.JMCCOOPHNCFNEHPADILOIKGCFNHNAEBKLCAJ.INHDDLNHOPEJBEJNJDFIHAIBMCAIFOMNEJOO()
at OBOKIIHBDBPMCFALPGECCIFHCDJPEDKODDGK.LAFDMIGCFJJDFILBNNFAJJEAPPONBLLEBDMK.EKKOHMNKJBKFLBFIDMJLBEAHLJBODNFACDHI()

WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.
To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.
Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging.
To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog].

Results from StandaloneTest


SevenZipSharp test application.
7z86.dll

Unhandled Exception: System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException: External compo
nent has thrown an exception.
at SevenZip.SevenZipLibraryManager.InArchive(InArchiveFormat format, Object u
ser) in C:\Users\Henrik\Desktop\7z\SevenZip\LibraryManager.cs:line 471
at SevenZip.SevenZipExtractor.Init(Stream stream) in C:\Users\Henrik\Desktop\
7z\SevenZip\SevenZipExtractor.cs:line 134
at SevenZip.SevenZipExtractor..ctor(Stream archiveStream) in C:\Users\Henrik\
Desktop\7z\SevenZip\SevenZipExtractor.cs:line 170
at SevenZip.SevenZipLibraryManager.ExtractionBenchmark(String archiveFileName
, Stream outStream, Nullable`1& features, LibraryFeature testedFeature) in C:\Us
ers\Henrik\Desktop\7z\SevenZip\LibraryManager.cs:line 227
at SevenZip.SevenZipLibraryManager.get_CurrentLibraryFeatures() in C:\Users\H
enrik\Desktop\7z\SevenZip\LibraryManager.cs:line 270
at SevenZip.SevenZipBase.get_CurrentLibraryFeatures() in C:\Users\Henrik\Desk
top\7z\SevenZip\Common.cs:line 395
at SevenZipTest.Program.Main(String[] args) in C:\Users\Henrik\Desktop\7z\Sev
enZipTest\Program.cs:line 49

It seems like there is some general problem on the server. Hard to say what. In the tests we used the official test application from the developer of this 7z component that we use for compressing files. This failed as well so it might suggest that it is not related to a specific VisualCron version but something else. I don't know if it is possible for you to go back and test the older version again?

Another thing is that from version 6.1.7 of VisualCron we are using .NET 4.0 so it might be something related to that if your previous version is older than that.

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I do not have any archived versions prior to VisualCron6.1.7. We upgraded from 6.1.9 to 6.2.0. We are probably going to have to restore the server this weekend if we are unable to find a solution.

I do not have any archived versions prior to VisualCron6.1.7. We upgraded from 6.1.9 to 6.2.0. We are probably going to have to restore the server this weekend if we are unable to find a solution.

But you do not know which version you ran (and worked before)?

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We don't think it ever worked on this server. We had no record of anything but 0 byte files. We just didn't know it wasn't working, because until Version 6.2.0, VC did not throw an error, just silently created a 0 byte ZIP file.

Yes, this is a strange issue. Not sure why. We have not yet been able to reproduce it on any of our servers yet.

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Please test version 7.0.0. (the beta).

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Where can the beta be found?

http://www.visualcron.co....aspx?g=posts&t=3175 

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Does the new versions address the issue with exporting settings? I am having that problem also and I don't see it mentioned in the change log.

If you still have problems with this then please let us know and we will look at this. I *think* this is fixed - but we could never reproduce this ourselves.

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