Re: Trace Files

On 13 Aug 2003 13:15:23 -0700, drak0nian_at_yahoo.com (Paul Drake) wrote:

>Ed Stevens <nospam_at_noway.nohow> wrote in message news:<nhckjvom65gt6spisiq6nvcu4hnrrp3jmq_at_4ax.com>...
>> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:30:40 +0100, "Niall Litchfield"
>> <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>> >:(. I can see the high level spec for XL2008 now.
>> >
>> >1. must corrupt raw data
>> >2. must have 95 'assistants' that do not assist.
>> >3. auto-update program from internet without intervention
>> >4. .net leveraged (or it may be architected) will not run at all in the
>> >presence of a JVM.
>> >5. er thats it.
>> >
>> >
>> You forgot:
>> 1a. Requires IE 8.7.4.234. (Note: applying the 234 patchset to IE
>> 8.7.4 will render Task Scheduler inoperative. The fix for that
>> problem is found in a patchset for Microsoft ODBC driver for MySQL.
>> That patchset is found only in the IE 8.7.3 load )
>
>Ed,
>
>dude. noway.
>last night, after applying SP4, the service "Task Scheduler" hanged
>upon startup.
>it turned out that it needed to have the service "Protected Storage"
>running, which had been stopped and set to manual. Believe me, that
>was not an easy error to debug.
>
>that is just way too funny that you mentioned it.
>made my day.
>
>thanks.
>
>Paul

As I recall the situation (it was about 2 years ago) we had a problem with M$Acess and an Oracle ODBC driver. Problem was traced to MDAC. Fix was -- apply upgrade to IE. What the H*** does a browser have to do with MDAC?? But there it was. And when we applied the IE update, Task Scheduler broke. The more I see of Windows, the more I like Unix. And I learned Windows before Unix, so I'm not coming to Windows from the position of a Unix bigot.

But we digress . . . Received on Thu Aug 14 2003 - 08:02:41 CDT