chart11610 wrote:

> We have had a couple of lockups also in recent weeks. This is again a stable application with 10 users of less that has been running for years. A couple of times it has cleared on its own, and other we needed to do a stop and start of the Interbase 2009 server. This is all Windows XP, Server 2003 and Citrix. I have no further insight to share.

Mine are happening just often enough to annoy the customers involved, but
without any logic to track down the cause. I was starting to think that remote
access via VNC was part of the equation, and since disabling that both sites
have been better, but not 'fixed'.

I'm on Firebird 2.1 and the server carries on fine accessed from apache, it is
only the IBO application that is freezing, but I am seeing it clear itself as
well. The logging for that app reports a 'restart' when it wakes back up.

I am beginning to wonder if the problem may be the server end - one site is on
linux and another on windows which is why I ignored that originally - but I am
now wondering if it is something on the connection that is 'freezing'. I would
have expected IBO to time out though - rather than lock up. If I kill the
process and restart it everything comes back to life and just works.

Anybody got ANY thoughts on what I can check next?

> --- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, Lester Caine<lester@...> wrote:
>>
>> I suppose I have been lucky up until now ... some of my sites have been running
>> for 10 or more years with little in the way of problems. However over the last
>> few weeks a problem has arisen which is starting to cause grief :(
>>
>> I have a small suit of programs using IBO on what I refer to as workstations.
>> These handle ticket printers, announcements, LED displays and other hardware. A
>> master slave set of programs keep things ticking along, or should do, but over
>> the last few weeks I've been getting a lockup problem on a couple of sites. One
>> site has been running for years with the same version of software, while the
>> other had a change of structure over christmas. Other sites are continuing to
>> work without the problem, but I am beginning to suspect a recent windows update
>> is the cause! Both problem sites have had updates applied, while the sites that
>> are still stable hae had them disabled. Since the problem only happens perhaps 2
>> or 3 times a week, applying updates on a 'good' site and monitoring could take a
>> while.
>>
>> Has anybody else seen problems on sites in the last few weeks where they have
>> been running without problem for some time? We are talking W2k and XP by the
>> way. These systems have not been updated since before Vista appeared.
>>
>> Of cause trying to track the problem is going to be almost impossible, but I'm
>> trying to restore some of the logging functions I had working in the early days
>> ....

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