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I hate to say it, but this reminds me of when I was up half the night tracking down a memory leak issue in Starry Night, since they didn't seem interested in doing so. It only leaked when the window was minimized, and I think that was x64 only.
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01-02-2010, 08:39 AM | #77 |
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01-02-2010, 07:20 PM | #79 |
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Recap of a 3-hour phone call with Sony.
1st and 2nd tiers .. aside from leaving my system in a messy state, were unable to to anything useful. 3rd tier .. Nathaniel was excited to see this happen. I wasn't able to generate a dump file for him, but he has my nfo file now, and was able to see with his own eyes my repro (modulo the fact that killing the dhcp client service would temporarily disconnect him). This problem *is* known to them, and has affected a variety of platforms: win7, vista, xp, mac. They hadn't narrowed any particular culprit down yet, but my work last night has made the tech very happy. They should be contacting me for follow-up sometime, but it's well after hours for them now. So.. informal poll of the Win7 folks for whom the reader software is not working. (I say Win7, but adventurous Vista and XP folks might be able to adapt the script.) Is DEP set to the first radio button (system services only)? Is UAC activated? (In my system, having DEP set to the other -- all -- button, and having UAC disabled, would cause the reader process to exit quietly. Restoring them to their default would cause the process to hang. Use task manager to view this.) With DEP and UAC in their defaults (as above), does the reader process hang? If the reader process hangs, bring up msconfig, and also bring up service manager (under computer | manage | services). Is DHCP Client enabled (under msconfig's Services tab)? Is DHCP Client running? With both of these "Yes", my reader was hanging. If that is what's happenning with you.. Uncheck DHCP Client in msconfig, click apply. Right-click DHCP Client in service manager, click stop. Confirm to also shut down WinHTTP Web Proxy service. Go to task manager and right click on the hung reader process(es). Click End Process Tree. Try running the reader again. On my machine, it will finally bring up the UI. It may ask if you want to associate epub. Whatever. Get it to the store. The store should be inaccessible in the reader's store browser. If so, then go back to msconfig, check DHCP Client, click apply, and then restart the service in the service manager. Click the Home button in the store browser. This should bring it back up. I have their email address. I'm happy to gather this info informally and ship it to them, and I'm sure they'd be happy to see it. But the first couple tiers aren't able to touch this problem, and may be leaving machines in a bad state. I also now have an uninstall bat file to compensate for problems with the uninstaller they supply. I'll be happy to email it to folks. So -- real and known problem. Sony simply hadn't gone through all the services. I suppose it's just lucky that DHCP client was in the first batch that I disabled. Thank you to the guy who reported using msconfig to disable everything. That was the clue they needed, and apparently the upper tier hadn't heard of that making a difference in the behavior. |
01-02-2010, 08:32 PM | #80 |
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Wonderful. Good to know they were aware of it but funny that they hadn't heard or tried the stopping services thing. It still seems funny that it is only on some machines and not others.
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I'm going to try installing Visual Studio later tonight. Hopefully there won't be any interactions from that, since I'm sure they'd like to get a debugger connected to this thing.
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Hah! Finally got a (192Mb) dump file! It just wanted me to elevate task manager first. Understandable...
So the other good (*) news is that I've almost reinstalled everything on my system, and it's still reproducing as I described. (* good == useful to me) |
01-05-2010, 11:52 AM | #84 |
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Reader Library fix
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I used sony software for a week.
It allowed me to sync flawlessly for 3 days...then it quit doing so for no reason at all. The only thing i did was download a free book (non public domain) from the sony library. I deleted the book and it still didnt work. I then decided to simply move my files over to the memory stick and that worked great for about 2 days. Then for no reason at all my POE collection would not move over no matter what I tried. I then decided to try the sync thing again. It worked well. I decided to redownload that one book previously mentioned. The sync worked fine. 2 days later the sync quit working. AAAHHHHH! Calibre for the win. |
01-26-2010, 04:00 PM | #88 |
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Auto-sync never worked well. So once I tried it, I gave up on it and never looked back.
I sort things manually and it works fine that way. |
01-28-2010, 03:54 PM | #89 |
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They finally got back to me. I have to check something at home as a workaround, but apparently they've recently discovered that their (or Adobe's? or both?) software doesn't like to have My Documents mapped to a UNC share (as I most certainly do). However, if it's mapped to a drive letter, apparently that resolves the issue of the software hanging on startup.
Of course, this isn't a bug *fix*, which they're apparently still looking into. If anybody else is still having the same issues I did, you might try that and report back. I'll be emailing them letting them know whether the UNC vs drive mapping problem applies to my case. |
01-28-2010, 09:30 PM | #90 |
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Still working fine here.
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