AE Debug

[Cons]

Hi everybody,

I want to use a JIT-Debugger on XPE, but neither drwtsn32 nor the debugging
tools for windows works. The regestry-Key AeDebug is correct(works under
XPPro).
If an error occurs, the "send error report wizard" pops up, even if I
disable it in System Properties.

Thanks for your help.
Cons

 

[Slobodan Brcin]

Cons,

For debugging tools for windows to works have you tried adding to boot.ini
/debug switch.
Also you need remote debugger, since this is only decent thing that will
give you real results.
So you need to setup communication channel, on both sides.
But, on XPE side in boot.ini also.

Then before error happens you need to connect to XPE, let say break in to
the XPE, and then let it go.
Or just let kd to connect during the boot automatically.

here is the piece from my boot.ini that will allow you to use RS232 to
remote debug.

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(9)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Embedded
FAT disk 192 MB" /fastdetect /debug /debugport=com1 /baudrate=115200

Best regards,
Slobodan

 

[Slobodan Brcin]

Sorry, I got carried away,

I don't know what you should do. Approach I said is to radical for you,
since you are experiencing application failure not XPE BSOD.

Best regards,
Slobodan

 

[Doug Hoeffel \(eMVP\)]

To get Dr. Watson to work, serach old archives. There were numerous threads
about this 6+ months ago. Lynda Allen from MS answered this.

HTH... Doug

 

[Slobodan Brcin]

If your program is written in visual studio look at the jester question in
next thread.
And see if you can use msvcmon.exe.

Best regards,
Slobodan

 

[Thomas Bach Petersen]

I have the exact same problem and tried the same as you,
so my short question is - did you solve your problem and
if so - how?

I have read through all the registry settings for the
disabling Error Reporting tool and for enabling
application debugging - in my best believe all my
settings are correct, but it still doesn't work.

I made a small program that provoke a memory violation
crash (mycrash.exe) - and every time it crashes XPE
automatically start a program called "dwwin.exe" which is
the client of the windows reporting tool.

I have searched quite a lot but have found no solution.

I have tried to rename dwwin.exe and copy drwtsn32.exe to
dwwin.exe. When a crash occur Dr. Watson's setup GUI come
up - just as if you started drwtsn32.exe from start | run.

My ugly workaround will be to try and see what parameters
are being supplied to dwwin.exe and if the "process id"
is being supplied then make a program or script that
calls drwtsn32.exe with "-p <proves id>" parameter to
force Dr. Watson to store a crash dump file.

Virtually,
Thomas