Re: !VDD WriteFile failure (Error=38)
By: Digital Man to Codefenix on Thu Aug 27 2020 02:10 pm

Re: !VDD WriteFile failure (Error=38)
By: Codefenix to Digital Man on Thu Aug 27 2020 09:29 am

Re: !VDD WriteFile failure (Error=38)
By: Digital Man to Codefenix on Tue Aug 25 2020 01:40 pm

edit the file exec/sbbsecho.ini and set the single line "Debug=true". Then run a Windows debug viewer (like https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/debugview)

I assume you meant exec/sbbsexec.ini, so that's the file I modified :)

I did. :-)

Debugger is running. Hopefully I capture something interesting the next time a crash happens.

Cool. You have to run it DbgView as Administrator too. You should be seeing log messages whenever any online 16-bit DOS programs are run from sbbs.

This logged error is likely the same issue reported by DesotoFireflite and recently resolved:
https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/9445866c80a38b5ee6c170ea8d68227c8497de03

There's no reports if it causing a door game to crash however. It was just a logged error that was in fact a harmless condition (trying to send data to a process that has terminated).
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