ERROR_FILE_CORRUPT

WINDBG
1

Dear Windbg gurus -

We are having trouble getting Windbg to open some of our crash dump
files.

Under W2K, when our application crashes with a 0-divide (intentional),
or when we use USERDUMP - in both cases, we get a .DMP file that we
cannot read. We get the following (transcribed) message:

could not initialize dump file , win32 error 1392

We looked up 1392 and it seems to imply that the file was corrupted.
What did we do wrong?

i There’s a Cross |
r h to bridge |
c the Great Divide… |

Rich Pennenga – Voice/Fax (732) 817-5927
Avaya, Rm 2B-530A, 101 Crawfords Corner Road
Holmdel, NJ 07733 – http://www.avaya.com http:</http:>

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2

Which version of WinDbg are you using? You should be using 4.0.0011 beta
which is downloadable from

http://www.microsoft.com/ddk/debugging

Gary G. Little
Staff Engineer
Broadband Storage, Inc.
xxxxx@broadstor.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Pennenga, Richard J (Rich) [mailto:xxxxx@avaya.com]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 12:44 PM
To: Kernel Debugging Interest List
Subject: [windbg] ERROR_FILE_CORRUPT

Dear Windbg gurus -

We are having trouble getting Windbg to open some of our crash dump files.

Under W2K, when our application crashes with a 0-divide (intentional), or
when we use USERDUMP - in both cases, we get a .DMP file that we cannot
read. We get the following (transcribed) message:

could not initialize dump file , win32 error 1392

We looked up 1392 and it seems to imply that the file was corrupted. What
did we do wrong?

i There’s a Cross |
r h to bridge |
c the Great Divide… |
Rich Pennenga – Voice/Fax (732) 817-5927
Avaya, Rm 2B-530A, 101 Crawfords Corner Road
Holmdel, NJ 07733 – http://www.avaya.com http:</http:>

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I just a week ago downloaded the most current GA version - i didn’t jump
for the Beta.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Little [mailto:xxxxx@Broadstor.com]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 3:58 PM
To: Kernel Debugging Interest List
Subject: [windbg] RE: ERROR_FILE_CORRUPT

Which version of WinDbg are you using? You should be using 4.0.0011 beta
which is downloadable from

http://www.microsoft.com/ddk/debugging

Gary G. Little
Staff Engineer
Broadband Storage, Inc.
xxxxx@broadstor.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Pennenga, Richard J (Rich) [mailto:xxxxx@avaya.com]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 12:44 PM
To: Kernel Debugging Interest List
Subject: [windbg] ERROR_FILE_CORRUPT

Dear Windbg gurus -

We are having trouble getting Windbg to open some of our crash dump
files.

Under W2K, when our application crashes with a 0-divide (intentional),
or when we use USERDUMP - in both cases, we get a .DMP file that we
cannot read. We get the following (transcribed) message:

could not initialize dump file , win32 error 1392

We looked up 1392 and it seems to imply that the file was corrupted.
What did we do wrong?

i There’s a Cross |
r h to bridge |
c the Great Divide… |
Rich Pennenga – Voice/Fax (732) 817-5927
Avaya, Rm 2B-530A, 101 Crawfords Corner Road
Holmdel, NJ 07733 – http://www.avaya.com http:</http:>

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4

(WOW talk about SPEEDY response!)

Nathan -

I’ll look into the .dump command (i’ll look in the documentation that
came with Windbg - hope it’s there - please provide references/URLs
otherwise).

When we force a dump, we execute a zero divide (you can imagine - “int
x=0; x= x/x;”).

I was encouraged by a Microsoft engineer to use USERDUMP - in fact this
gentleman encouraged me to imbed it in my product as a strategy for
diagnosing difficult ‘soft realtime’ problems (the nature of our
business). What kinds of issues are there for this tool?

Also - we used “userdump -k X.exe” and while it generated a .DMP file,
the process did not die. The command was issued by a different process

  • one running as a service. Did running the command as a service
    prevent the command from killing the other process (also a service)?

Thanks for your help.
i There’s a Cross |
r h to bridge |
c the Great Divide… |
Rich Pennenga – Voice/Fax (732) 817-5927
Avaya, Rm 2B-530A, 101 Crawfords Corner Road
Holmdel, NJ 07733 – http://www.avaya.com http:</http:>

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Nesbit [mailto:xxxxx@windows.microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 3:55 PM
To: Kernel Debugging Interest List; Pennenga, Richard J (Rich)
Subject: RE: [windbg] ERROR_FILE_CORRUPT

Userdump has known problems. We encourage people to use the debugger
and the .dump command rather than userdump.

How else are you making dump files? Dumps made by Dr Watson on Win2k
should work fine.

-----Original Message-----
From: Pennenga, Richard J (Rich) [mailto:xxxxx@avaya.com]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 12:44 PM
To: Kernel Debugging Interest List
Subject: [windbg] ERROR_FILE_CORRUPT

Dear Windbg gurus -

We are having trouble getting Windbg to open some of our crash dump
files.

Under W2K, when our application crashes with a 0-divide (intentional),
or when we use USERDUMP - in both cases, we get a .DMP file that we
cannot read. We get the following (transcribed) message:

could not initialize dump file , win32 error 1392

We looked up 1392 and it seems to imply that the file was corrupted.
What did we do wrong?

i There’s a Cross |
r h to bridge |
c the Great Divide… |
Rich Pennenga – Voice/Fax (732) 817-5927
Avaya, Rm 2B-530A, 101 Crawfords Corner Road
Holmdel, NJ 07733 – http://www.avaya.com http:</http:>

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5

4.0.0011 is the one to use! It may be beta but is the most stable!

-Ajay
-----Original Message-----
From: Pennenga, Richard J (Rich) [mailto:xxxxx@avaya.com]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 2:28 PM
To: Kernel Debugging Interest List
Subject: [windbg] RE: ERROR_FILE_CORRUPT

I just a week ago downloaded the most current GA version - i didn’t jump for
the Beta.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Little [mailto:xxxxx@Broadstor.com]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 3:58 PM
To: Kernel Debugging Interest List
Subject: [windbg] RE: ERROR_FILE_CORRUPT

Which version of WinDbg are you using? You should be using 4.0.0011 beta
which is downloadable from

http://www.microsoft.com/ddk/debugging

Gary G. Little
Staff Engineer
Broadband Storage, Inc.
xxxxx@broadstor.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Pennenga, Richard J (Rich) [mailto:xxxxx@avaya.com]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 12:44 PM
To: Kernel Debugging Interest List
Subject: [windbg] ERROR_FILE_CORRUPT

Dear Windbg gurus -

We are having trouble getting Windbg to open some of our crash dump files.

Under W2K, when our application crashes with a 0-divide (intentional), or
when we use USERDUMP - in both cases, we get a .DMP file that we cannot
read. We get the following (transcribed) message:

could not initialize dump file , win32 error 1392

We looked up 1392 and it seems to imply that the file was corrupted. What
did we do wrong?

i There’s a Cross |
r h to bridge |
c the Great Divide… |
Rich Pennenga – Voice/Fax (732) 817-5927
Avaya, Rm 2B-530A, 101 Crawfords Corner Road
Holmdel, NJ 07733 – http://www.avaya.com http:</http:>

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6

Then that version should be 3.0.0020, if not you need to download. DO NOT be
fooled by WinDbg 5.0 versions, mostly they are totally dis-functional.

Do consider 4.0.0011. It is indeed better than 3.0.0020.

Gary G. Little
Staff Engineer
Broadband Storage, Inc.
xxxxx@broadstor.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Pennenga, Richard J (Rich) [mailto:xxxxx@avaya.com]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 2:28 PM
To: Kernel Debugging Interest List
Subject: [windbg] RE: ERROR_FILE_CORRUPT

I just a week ago downloaded the most current GA version - i didn’t jump for
the Beta.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Little [mailto:xxxxx@Broadstor.com]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 3:58 PM
To: Kernel Debugging Interest List
Subject: [windbg] RE: ERROR_FILE_CORRUPT
Which version of WinDbg are you using? You should be using 4.0.0011 beta
which is downloadable from

http://www.microsoft.com/ddk/debugging

Gary G. Little
Staff Engineer
Broadband Storage, Inc.
xxxxx@broadstor.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Pennenga, Richard J (Rich) [mailto:xxxxx@avaya.com]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 12:44 PM
To: Kernel Debugging Interest List
Subject: [windbg] ERROR_FILE_CORRUPT

Dear Windbg gurus -

We are having trouble getting Windbg to open some of our crash dump files.

Under W2K, when our application crashes with a 0-divide (intentional), or
when we use USERDUMP - in both cases, we get a .DMP file that we cannot
read. We get the following (transcribed) message:

could not initialize dump file , win32 error 1392

We looked up 1392 and it seems to imply that the file was corrupted. What
did we do wrong?

i There’s a Cross |
r h to bridge |
c the Great Divide… |
Rich Pennenga – Voice/Fax (732) 817-5927
Avaya, Rm 2B-530A, 101 Crawfords Corner Road
Holmdel, NJ 07733 – http://www.avaya.com http:</http:>

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