Version 1.9.1 crashes

[sjukmidlands]

I downloaded the first 1.91 beta earlier and mostly it ran fine, although kept getting New Record light flashing, and was the humidity readings, both with dates of 1899!

I downloaded the even newer version shortly afterwards but now Cumulus crashed every time I launch it, I cannot get it to start at all. I've tried re-installing the earlier 1.91 beta but it still crashed at start up.

I have to use Task Manager to kill the process.

bug report attached.

[steve]

I downloaded the even newer version shortly afterwards but now Cumulus crashed every time I launch it, I cannot get it to start at all. I've tried re-installing the earlier 1.91 beta but it still crashed at start up.

Could you have a look in the latest diags file and see if there is anything in there?

It might be best if everyone started a new thread with any problems - it's going to get a bit confusing in here!

[sjukmidlands]

I downloaded the even newer version shortly afterwards but now Cumulus crashed every time I launch it, I cannot get it to start at all. I've tried re-installing the earlier 1.91 beta but it still crashed at start up.

Could you have a look in the latest diags file and see if there is anything in there?

It might be best if everyone started a new thread with any problems - it's going to get a bit confusing in here!

Ok Steve, here are the recent files attached to this, hope it helps!

[steve]

Ok Steve, here are the recent files attached to this, hope it helps!

Looks like it's having problems processing the entry from the logger that it downloaded - I did expect problems with La Crosse stations.

I suspect that when it was working earlier, it didn't download any archive data. I'll have a look at the archive processing code to see what I can see. You could try tweaking the timestamp in today.ini to make sure it doesn't attempt to download any archive data (i.e. set the timestamp to now). Just as an experiment to see if that gets it going...

[sjukmidlands]

Looks like it's having problems processing the entry from the logger that it downloaded - I did expect problems with La Crosse stations.

I suspect that when it was working earlier, it didn't download any archive data. I'll have a look at the archive processing code to see what I can see. You could try tweaking the timestamp in today.ini to make sure it doesn't attempt to download any archive data (i.e. set the timestamp to now). Just as an experiment to see if that gets it going...

Hi Steve, done that just now, and yes it has started OK now so that was the problem. Hopefully you can solve that somehow in a later build, in the next few days anyway I'll be leaving my PC switched on permanently whilst we are away in Wales. And yes am still getting New Record events for humidity - 00:00 on 30 December 1899!

Steve

[laulau]

Dates in Record events for humidity are ok for me (191 b951)

[steve]

Hi Steve, done that just now, and yes it has started OK now so that was the problem.

That's good - apart from the odd dates in the new record, does everything look OK? I'll have a look at the archive data code to see if I can see what's going on.

And yes am still getting New Record events for humidity - 00:00 on 30 December 1899!

It's a strange one, that, as the code that does the dates is common to all stations. You're getting a 'zero' data for some reason.

[sjukmidlands]

Hi Steve, done that just now, and yes it has started OK now so that was the problem.

That's good - apart from the odd dates in the new record, does everything look OK? I'll have a look at the archive data code to see if I can see what's going on.

And yes am still getting New Record events for humidity - 00:00 on 30 December 1899!

It's a strange one, that, as the code that does the dates is common to all stations. You're getting a 'zero' data for some reason.

Hi Steve, yes everything else appears to be fine, apart from the continually flashing green light for New record (the Humidity date problem). I'm leaving my PC switched on now anyway until early next week, when we get back home again, so I can leave Cumulus running until then - maybe by then this date problem might be sorted out! Good luck!

Steve

[steve]

I've sorted out the date problem with the humidity record, but I'm baffled as to why the archive data processing stops where it does. I'll add a bit more logging to the next build.

[sjukmidlands]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for letting me know that, we're in Wales now until Tuesday, so maybe it will all be sorted soon!

Another issue noticed today - whilst the desktop widget works ok and is updating from the realtime.txt file, I have noticed that my webpage stopped updating at 4.40am today - it was all updating OK with the new Cumulus until then, and since that time hasn't updated. I presume there isn't much I can do about that here in Wales - unless there's anything I can do via ftp to my web space.

As you mentioned, you were expecting some issues with this release, so i suppose it's good these issues are being noticed and hopefully can be rectified.

Steve

[sjukmidlands]

quick update: The realtime txt file stopped updating too, so looks like Cumulus crashed - but as I'm not at home, cannot fix it until next Tuesday. Will try the latest build then.

[sjukmidlands]

Hi Steve,

When I got home from Wales on Tuesday I downloaded the latest Cumulus Beta 952 and installed it - Cumulus then ran and opened fine, even after being switched off overnight and thus downloading historical data the next morning, and continued working and launching until today. Yesterday I installed the even newer Beta v 953 - but this morning I'm back to that same problem, Cumulus crashes when attempting to download any historical data. I tricked it again to get it going but changing the time stamp in today.ini to the present as you suggested trying, and it launched fine. But it lost the overnight data of course.

So whatever was causing this and fixed in the previous 952 Beta has regressed in this 953 beta.

Attached are the four bug reports generated from the four times I tried launching Cumulus unsuccessfully this morning.

I hope there's a resolution to this at some point! Good luck!

Steve

[steve]

So whatever was causing this and fixed in the previous 952 Beta has regressed in this 953 beta.

Nothing has changed between 952 and 953 that could affect this, so that's a coincidence.

You keep saying "crashed"; you don't really mean that, do you? I appreciate that it's difficult for people who aren't software developers to use terms that mean something specific to software developers. I think you mean that it "hangs" or appears to lock up, i.e. it keeps running but isn't doing anything useful and you have to kill it with task manager?

[sjukmidlands]

Sorry Steve, yes , I meant it hangs. At the point it tries to download the data when opening Cumulus, it waits a few seconds then I get the message about a problem and the bug report, and the three options to continue, end Cumulus or try again, and if selecting try again or continue I have to use Task Manager to end the process as it will not download any data and start.

Anyway, I hope you find a reason for this, it'd be such a shame if I couldn't continue using Cumulus. It seems no-one else has encountered this problem yet, or at least not reported it. Although you did suspect there might be problems for La Crosse based weather stations.

Best Wishes,
Steve

[steve]

It's getting further than it was previously, because of a change I did in 952. It was hanging at the point where I allowed the GUI to update, so I stopped doing that. It's now hanging slightly later, again where I allow the GUI to update. I don't understand why that causes a problem, but I'll take this one out too in the next build and see where that gets us. I have a few bug fixes in the next build now, so I'll probably release it shortly.