Re: IIS 6 is a steaming pile of shit

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From: MIMF (mimf_at_onvol.net)
Date: 01/21/05


Date: 21 Jan 2005 03:12:30 -0800

So you're saying IISCHAgent is no good when debugging IIS? I installed
it because various Microsoft and non-Microsoft sources recommended it,
but, based on your recommendation, I have now installed IISState and
WinDbg (latest version) on the server.

Upon installation, I copied the necessary DLLs from WinDbg folders into
IISState folder, uninstalled IISCHAgent, and started IIS.

I went to CMD and run

iisstate -p 3572 -hc -d

where 3572 is the PID of IIS.EXE.

I got these warnings:

C:\Program Files\IIS Resources\IISState>iisstate -p 3572 -hc -d

Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 6.4.0004.4
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

sxd av
WARNING: The debugger does not have a current process or thread
WARNING: Many commands will not work

and then a long list of DLLs.

I then waited. Sure enough, after a bit of time, this appeared:

(df4.1358): Unknown exception - code 000006b5 (first chance)
(df4.1304): Unknown exception - code 000006b5 (first chance)
(df4.1358): Unknown exception - code 000006b5 (first chance)
(df4.1358): Unknown exception - code 000006b5 (first chance)
(df4.1304): Unknown exception - code 000006b5 (first chance)

and so on.

The "C:\Program Files\IIS Resources\IISState\output" folder is empty.
Why?

Thank you.

David Wang [Msft] wrote:
> If you are running in WPIM and inetinfo.exe is the culprit, then you
will
> want to get a stack trace for inetinfo.exe (using ADPLUS, IIS State,
> IISCHAgent, etc) of the crash and contact PSS with it.
>
> If you are running in IIS5 Compatibility mode, then crashing in
inetinfo.exe
> may indicate bugs in user code running in "low isolation" or from the
> "InProcessIsapis" list (as well as IIS issue). You will want to
first get a
> stack trace, make sure it's not your code (PSS calls for your crashs
cost
> you money), and then contact PSS with it if it looks like Microsoft
code
> issues.
>
> In all cases, it is quite important for you to get a stack trace of
the
> actual process crash in question and have it analyzed to make
progress. I
> wouldn't try random "guesses" with installing various QFE -- always
just
> capture the crash, debug/patch it, and repeat.
>
> --
> //David
> IIS
> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
> //
> "MIMF" <mimf@onvol.net> wrote in message
> news:1106211585.173566.98900@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Thank you for your detailed description.
>
> No, I don't have either SMTP, NNTP nor FTP services running.
>
> Judging by what you said, the way this IIS 6.0 instance crashes
> indicates a problem with inetinfo.exe, not any of the application
> pools. That's because IIS completely stops responding, but not as if
> there's no IIS running at all (in which case the client would get
> 'connection refused' and IE would display the generic error straight
> away), it looks like IIS accepts the TCP connection but 'waits'
> forever. When I had analyzed the DMP files, I concentrated on WPIM
> executables, not the inetinfo.exe, which now I see was probably a
> mistake. Another reason why I think inetinfo.exe crashes is because
> stopping and restarting the service (when it 'crashes') from
> services.msc takes an age, and I have to use iisreset which
forcefully
> restarts it if it won't (and it normally won't) restart gracefully.



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