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User forums => Using Code::Blocks => Topic started by: chikigai on July 25, 2006, 03:50:14 am
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Hello,
I've been using the Nightly Builds for several months now on WinXP.
For some reason, I have suddenly started experiencing a problem where CodeBlocks doesn't start up at all.
The process exists in Task Manager, but stays at 0% CPU usage and never actually starts up the application.
The strange thing is that a rather old development snapshot I compiled myself (saved in a completely different path) starts up no problem.....
Anyone know what might be the cause?
Cheers.
Some additional Info:
The revision of the Development Snapshot which starts up without any problems is 2321.
Also, I have no idea if this information will help, but I used W32dsm to spot at which point the Nightly Build hangs.
With the latest Nightly Builds (I've tried several now), the process is loaded, the program's main entry point is entered, the main thread is created and then hangs.
With the Development Snapshot, the main thread is created and goes on to load "Msftedit.dll".
Several other DLL's are loaded and continues to start up CodeBlocks normally.
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Did it stop working when you updated to the latest nightly, or did it just suddenly stop working altogether without you doing anything?
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Well, to be quite honest, I haven't got a clue!!!
For the past several months, I've been downloading almost every single Nightly Build released.
I delete the files from the older release and copy the new ones in its place.
I performed this with the July 24th build, and ended up with the current situation.
Tried deleting all the files and replaced them with previous Nightly Builds but it makes no difference.
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Well, to be quite honest, I haven't got a clue!!!
For the past several months, I've been downloading almost every single Nightly Build released.
I delete the files from the older release and copy the new ones in its place.
I performed this with the July 24th build, and ended up with the current situation.
Tried deleting all the files and replaced them with previous Nightly Builds but it makes no difference.
Try extracting the nightly to a different place......
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Tried that too......
Didn't have any effect..... :(
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try to download regmon (http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html) and filemon (http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html) from sysinternals (http://www.sysinternals.net/) to see if it is some configuration setting somewhere causing the hang.
An alternative is to just delete all configuration settings and see if that works (but it'd be nice to know the exact cause).
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OK, I think I've managed to find the cause.
The problem occurs on the computer I use at work.
On Monday, some sort of security software (developed by a Japanese company) was automatically installed into my client.
Seems like it was layed out to prevent users from executing Peer-to-Peer software and the like but unfortunately it has also blocked CodeBlocks too...... :(
I have traced the hang to one of the DLLs loaded by the security software.
Not quite sure why the Development Snapshot rev2321 I compiled ages ago works though......
The same security software DLLs are loaded with this as well.....