Author Topic: Freezing within 1st minute, showing up twice in Task Manager  (Read 3126 times)

Offline entropy

  • Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 5
Freezing within 1st minute, showing up twice in Task Manager
« on: September 11, 2010, 11:17:22 am »
Have been successfully using 0.31.5 and earlier versions for months on Windows Home Server vie RDP. All of a sudden the program keeps freezing after half a minute or so of opening it. No matter if dl is running or not, CPU will spike to 50% and Alt.Binz will show up twice in Task Manager but only once under processes. I downloaded 0.31.6, tried deleting config.abz, queue and history but no change. Log file doesn't show anything except downloads.

Any ides?




Offline Hecks

  • Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 2011
  • naughty cop
Re: Freezing within 1st minute, showing up twice in Task Manager
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2010, 11:30:18 am »
Assuming that Alt.Binz is excluded from any antivirus or firewall, and neither of those have been updated by your system, I'd try clearing out the temp folder (in case something nasty is still trying to decode) and checking your autoimport folder (in case something's in there that Alt.Binz doesn't like).

The key thing here, of course, is to try to understand what you mean by "all of a sudden".  Alt.Binz doesn't spontaneously change itself, so the more info you can give about what was actually happening when you experienced the problem, the more likely it is that a solution can be found.

Some useful tools here are Process Explorer and Process Monitor (both free). PM in particular can tell you exactly what a process is reading/writing.
« Last Edit: September 11, 2010, 11:31:52 am by Hecks »

Offline entropy

  • Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 5
Re: Freezing within 1st minute, showing up twice in Task Manager
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2010, 01:08:47 pm »
Thanks for the fast reply!

There was no change to AntiVirus or Firewall. With all of a sudden I mean yesterday. I happened to have a virtual machine installed (VMWare) yesterday but it's gone now. The problem is not, though.

The log gives me:

[12.09.2010 08:26:35] [Main] Alt.Binz 0.31.6 [29.05.2010] started.
[12.09.2010 08:26:37] [Main] 0 items loaded into download history list in 0ms.
[12.09.2010 08:26:37] [Main] 0 outdated items removed from download history list in 0ms.

The PM logfile is here http://drop.io/q72tr9z

The freeze happened at 8:55.25
I killed the process at 8:55:45

Offline Hecks

  • Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 2011
  • naughty cop
Re: Freezing within 1st minute, showing up twice in Task Manager
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2010, 01:24:56 pm »
Sorry, that logfile won't open on my machine.

What you should be looking for are (mainly) file system activity events around the time of your error.

Offline entropy

  • Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 5
Re: Freezing within 1st minute, showing up twice in Task Manager
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2010, 02:12:46 pm »
This is what happened before and during the freeze:


Offline Hecks

  • Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 2011
  • naughty cop
Re: Freezing within 1st minute, showing up twice in Task Manager
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2010, 03:00:26 pm »
Alt.Binz seems to be having trouble unraring stuff.rar - try to open it in WinRAR to see what the problem is.

Offline entropy

  • Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 5
Re: Freezing within 1st minute, showing up twice in Task Manager
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2010, 03:18:24 pm »
 ;D

You're my hero!

Thanks!!!