I have ZAP installed on a build server (Windows 2008 R2) and on my Windows 7 desktop, and Zap only occasionally starts. I click on the program and my cursor shows it is waiting for a second or 2 and then nothing. Attempting to run from the command line will also not show any signs of running.
Then just out of the blue the program may launch.
Is it possible it just takes forever to start. I left my computer running and the next day when I came to work there was the UI.
I get the same results if I try to run the program in the headless state. with the -daemon flag. it never starts, it never shows up in the task manager, as an application or a process
thanks Noel
Turns out there were 2 issues. The first was that the tool was taking 4-5 minutes to start (I timed it several times at around 4m 30s). I did not have the patience to wait, so I would try to start it again. Attempting to start the application when one had started, but no UI was showing invariable caused the application to hang.
Secondly if you start it as a headless application there is no way to stop it. So if you have it headless and then try to start the application it will cause it to hang. THe easiest way to tell if it is running is to follow the log information being written out as suggested by Psiion above in his link.
To kill the process, look in the task manager for the java process and kill it.
Just in case anyone stumbles across this post, my problem was I didn't have Java installed. I had removed it a few months ago due to security considerations.
You can stop your browsesr using Java easily by using the Java control panel http://www.java.com/en/download/help/disable_browser.xml
I was facing a similar issue, the ZAP tool was working fine on my local machine but was displaying erratic behavior on the Virtual Machine. I tried all the previously mentioned suggestions but none of them could mitigate the issue. Upon checking the log files i found out that the HSQLDB files were being locked even after closing the tool or even if the tool did not start. I eventually figured out that the difference between the 2 environments was just the operating system. My local had Windows 10 pro while the VM had Windows 10 enterprise. So in case if any one else is facing similar, kindly check the operating system.
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I've run into a problem recently where sometimes timers in Microsoft Access forms stop working, having been fine for ages. It seems to be related to some kind of disruption of the host PC where the Access programs are running. In order to get them working again I have to restart the PC.
The scenario affects all currently open instances of Access where there are form timers active (four instances in this case).
Has anyone any ideas of how I might investigate what might be happening on the host PC (running Windows 10) that could break Access form timers?
The problem does make me wonder how Access works with the OS to control its timers.
TIA
It turns out this was down to vendor loaded software causing disruption to the Windows and Office system.
How can I restart an application in Eclipse through a socket call?
I built an error diagnosis app which can checks what code should be changed to handle the error, but after the change I have to restart the app again. I already have developed a plugin for Eclipse which would take care of this, but I am not sure on how to restart the app.
1.) Is there an internal Eclipse command to restart the app?
2.) Do I have to use a command shell (which I wouldn't prefer)?
Hope someone can help me or give me some guidance. Also I know that there is a possibility to restart an app for debugging, but I want to run the app without debugging.
If you mean you have an Eclipse 3.x style RCP application and you want to restart the RCP from an Eclipse plug-in then you just do:
PlatformUI.getWorkbench().restart(true);
which restarts the RCP using the current workspace.
For an e4 RCP you do:
#Inject
IWorkbench workbench;
workbench.restart();
#greg-449: Thanks for your respond, but what I am trying to achieve is a bit more complex. Consider the following, I have a service that runs on another machine in my company network. It turned out something wrong is going with this service. So you can connect with with a remote debugger to the server and can check with the source code, that you have on your local machine, what is going on. I would say the classic Remote Debugging in Java.
But when you have fixed the error in the code you also have to restart the service on this other machine somewhere in the network. The question is how to do this? By a shell command which gives you the instances on this machine where the service is running or is there some other possibility?
Hope this helps more to understand the problem.
We run our application in a kiosk environment of sorts, replacing Explorer with our application. Everything worked fine under Windows XP, but with Windows 7 we can't get it to work.
We set the registry key WinLogon to a custom user.bat batch script (no further registry tweaking) in which we wait for several services to start (SQLServer, for example), then launch our application.
This worked great in XP. However, in 7, all needed services are detected, but when our application starts, it fails when trying to load its .fx file. It's as if some service or component related to DirectX has not been yet initialized. Any hints on troubleshooting this?
We solved this by making our program which waits for services try to play an avi (without displaying it) using DirectX. We cover that code with a try-catch block inside a loop and insist on it until it succeeds, which means DirectX is available. A nasty hack, but since the user can't see it, it's good enough for us.
This issue has come up three times in our environment. After installing the ClickOnce application, I expected it to startup automatically (as I have it set to do after install completes), but it did not.
I try running the application from the shortcut, and it brings up the "Launching Application" dialog, but then immediately closes and the application is not started. It's acting as if another instance of the application is currently running (I have it set to only run one instance at a time).
This issue is profile-specific. Installing it on the same machine using a different profile runs just fine, but for whatever reason, no amount of uninstalling, reinstalling, and restarting the computer seems to fix a profile once it runs into this problem.
Our current fix for this is to completely delete the profile and "reload" it. I'd really like to know what the actually problem is though, being that we've run into it three times now.
Some other information that may be of use:
This application was originally deployed using Windows Installer (MSI). I uninstalled the application from the Add/Remove Programs prior to installing the newer ClickOnce version.
These users were previously part of local administrators group (while running the MSI version). Their privileges have since been lowered to "standard user".
Do you have any logging at startup that shows exactly what the application is doing, so you can tell where it's crashing?
The user doesn't have Kensington mouse software installed, do they? There is a known conflict there, the symptoms of which are exactly as you report -- the user clicks the shortcut to start the application, it updates, and then does nothing.
I was able to fix those installations by creating a new certificate for the app. It appears this issue had to do with the certificate reaching its expiration date.
Instead of deleting the profile try this:
Log onto the PC as an admin
Delete/rename C:/Documents and Settings/(UserCorpID)/Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Windows/UsrClass.dat file
We do have problems with GWT hosted mode running in Eclipse Ganymede (Windwos XP 3GB RAM). When we start our application in hosted mode it takes very long to start and also the transactions once the application is started are taking minutes to react. It seems as if it takes very long to communicate between Javascript and server.
The processor shows almost no load during this time. Even compiling and starting from an external browser does not help.
Strange is that we do have two other computers (one Windows XP one Linux) with exact the same setup where the hosted mode is working at normal speed without any problems for the same application.
Do yourself a favour, move to GWT 2.0 (currently in RC2) and take advantage of Out Of Process Hosted Mode (OOPHM), which lets you debug straight in the browser, and is lightning fast!
http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/wiki/UsingOOPHM
Try removing all breakpoints. It helped me in such a scenario. Apparently if you place breakpoints in critical points in the program, it can cause everything to grind to nearly a halt in hosted mode.
I second the suggestion to switch to GWT 2. Please note, however, that with GWT 2, hosted mode is very slow in Chrome. I recently switched from 1.7 to 2.0 and found hosted mode to be very slow ... until I switched to Firefox. Reason for this is that Chrome's process model is not benificial to OOPHM, at least now.
A few ideas:
Does the slow Windows box have a heavily fragmented hard-drive?
Is it a specific database query that's taking a long time once the application is running, or are all interactions slow?
Are the project files on a local filesystem?
Is the database on a local filesystem?
If so, does it have the same size data set as the other machines?
If not, are they on different subnets or have different bandwidth available?