[THIN] Re: Office 2003 applications hang

  • From: Philip Walley <mythinlist@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:03:37 -0600

jeff,

this isn't your exact environment but may lend a clue as to the resolution.

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Jeff Pitsch wrote:

it is definately not at log off. This is happening while they are working in the application.
Jeff Pitsch


On 12/21/05, *Philip Walley* <mythinlist@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:mythinlist@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    an old one i dealt with was outlook not releasing at log off.

    used this key to ensure that it termintated the process

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Citrix\wfshell\TWI]
    "LogoffCheckSysModules"="mapisp32.exe,outlook.exe"



    Jeff Pitsch wrote:

> ARGH! Now other processes are hanging!!!!
>
> Jeff Pitsch :(
>
>
> On 12/21/05, *Philip Walley* <mythinlist@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:mythinlist@xxxxxxxxx>
> <mailto:mythinlist@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:mythinlist@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>
> damn jeff, you've been having rough luck the past couple
weeks. try
> changing up the voodoo dance or something......
>
> Jeff Pitsch wrote:
>
> > well we had an application hang already this
morning. I've compared
> > the MST with a straight install onto TS and the options
look the
> > same. Very very frustrating....
> >
> > On 12/20/05, *Jeff Pitsch* < jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx>
> <mailto:jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx>>
> > <mailto:jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx>
<mailto: jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx>>>> wrote:
> >
> > Yea we've turned off the memory optimizations because
of some
> > issues. I'm hoping we survive the rest of the week
without any
> > problems. that will pretty much guarantee we will be
> turning off
> > cpu optmization across the farm at that point.
> >
> > Jeff Pitsch
> >
> >
> > On 12/20/05, *Evan Mann* <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> <mailto: emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> > <mailto: emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> <mailto:emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>>> wrote:
> >
> > No cpu or memory optimizations enabled. When I asked
> about it
> > on the list, I got a few people who said it caused
major
> > problems, and others who said they have had good
> luck. Seemed
> > to be hit/miss. I have a few apps that could greatly
> benefit
> > from memory optimizations, but I'm leary to mess with
> anything
> > since I'm not in a CPU or memory deprived setup
currently.
> >
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------


> > *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> > *On Behalf Of *Jeff Pitsch
> > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 20, 2005 2:55 PM
> > *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> > *Subject:* [THIN] Re: Office 2003 applications hang
> >
> >
> > Evan, do you have cpu optimization enabled? I've
> disabled it
> > and so far no crashes. Considering that we had 6
> crashes just
> > this morning, I'm beginning to wonder....
> >
> > Jeff Pitsch
> >
> >
> > On 12/20/05, *Evan Mann* <
emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> <mailto: emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> > <mailto:emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> <mailto:emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>>> wrote:
> >
> > I'm running 2003 SP1 with PS4 and Office 2003
SP2. I
> > haven't really have any issues with Office,
even when it
> > was SP1. My users aren't using IE through
Citrix,
> so not
> > much to speak of there. I know I've seen IE crash
> when I
> > tested it (as a domain admin) through ICA/RDP
when I
> went
> > to yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com> <http://yahoo.com>
> <http://yahoo.com/>. It doesn't crash if I
> > do it logged into the console. I thought that
was odd,
> > but haven't looked into it yet since it's not
necessary
> > for my environment.
> >
> > My office install is straight via setup.exe,
no custom
> > MST. Any changes are done via GPO or registry
edits.
> >
> > Clients are mostly 9.0 and a few 9.1, web or
PNAgent. I
> > have a variety of PS4 hotfixes, but not the
hot fix
> rollup
> > (yet).
> >
> >
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> > *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> <mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>>] *On Behalf Of *Pardee
> > Michael
> > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:25 PM
> > *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> >
> > *Subject:* [THIN] Re: Office 2003 applications
hang
> >
> >
> > So you are running SP1 and still seeing the
crashes?
> > That's not encouraging.
> >
> > On Dec 20, 2005, at 12:21 PM, Jeff Pitsch wrote:
> >
> >> Yea didn't mention that did I. We are running
> Win2k3 w/SP1.
> >>
> >> Jeff Pitsch
> >>
> >>
> >> On 12/20/05, *Pardee Michael* <
> pardeemp.list@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:pardeemp.list@xxxxxxxxx>
<mailto:pardeemp.list@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:pardeemp.list@xxxxxxxxx>>
> >> <mailto: pardeemp.list@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:pardeemp.list@xxxxxxxxx>
> <mailto:pardeemp.list@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:pardeemp.list@xxxxxxxxx>>>> wrote:
> >>
> >> We see these hangs/crashes with
Office2003, IE,
> etc.
> >> way too often in our environment. I have
been
> told
> >> that Windows2003 SP1 is supposed to
address this
> >> issue, so we are currently testing
it. Is anyone
> >> else seeing this with SP1 already applied?
> >>
> >> On Dec 20, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Jeff Pitsch
wrote:
> >>
> >>> Typically what I do when installing
Office 2003 is
> >>> take the settings that Office chooses when
> doing a
> >>> TS install and then configure that in my
> MST. that
> >>> way I'm guaranteed the correct settings
are in
> >>> there. As I said, I don't know what
this other
> >>> person did.
> >>>
> >>> Jeff Pitsch
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 12/20/05, *Philip Walley* <
> mythinlist@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:mythinlist@xxxxxxxxx> <mailto:
mythinlist@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:mythinlist@xxxxxxxxx>>
> >>> <mailto:mythinlist@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:mythinlist@xxxxxxxxx>
> <mailto:mythinlist@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:mythinlist@xxxxxxxxx>>>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> that's some good stuff to know about
guys.
> thanks
> >>>
> >>> Jeff Pitsch wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> We did a custom install using an MST so that we
> >>> could configure
> >>>> Outlook settings, etc for the
> >>> user. Unfortunatley I didn't create the
> >>>> MST so I'll have take a look through it to see
> >>> what's up.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for the info.
> >>>>
> >>>> Jeff Pitsch
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 12/20/05, *Grant, Lachlan ISMC:EX* <
> >>> Lachlan.Grant@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:Lachlan.Grant@xxxxxxxxx>
> <mailto:Lachlan.Grant@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:Lachlan.Grant@xxxxxxxxx>>
> >>> <mailto: Lachlan.Grant@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:Lachlan.Grant@xxxxxxxxx>
> <mailto:Lachlan.Grant@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:Lachlan.Grant@xxxxxxxxx>>>
> >>>> <mailto: Lachlan.Grant@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:Lachlan.Grant@xxxxxxxxx> <mailto:Lachlan.Grant@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:Lachlan.Grant@xxxxxxxxx>>
> >>> <mailto:Lachlan.Grant@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:Lachlan.Grant@xxxxxxxxx>
> <mailto:Lachlan.Grant@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:Lachlan.Grant@xxxxxxxxx>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I've had similar issues before with 2003 on
> >>> TS. Did you do a
> >>>> custom installation of Office 2003?
> >>>> the office 2003 installer is aware of
> >>> terminal services, so you
> >>>> should use the default install options it
> >>> presents, then add
> >>>> anything in that you would like post-install.
> >>>>
> >>>> That was one the issues from memeory, we
> >>> did a full install of
> >>>> office and it would crash and hang randomly.
> >>>>
> >>>> lachlan.
> >>>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> <mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>>>] *On Behalf
> >>> Of *Jeff Pitsch
> >>>> *Sent:* December 20, 2005 8:11 AM
> >>>> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> >>> <mailto: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> >>>> *Subject:* [THIN] Office 2003
> >>> applications hang
> >>>>
> >>>> Office 2003 SP2. Citrix PS4 with
> >>> memory optimizations turned
> >>>> off and memory tuning turned
> >>> on. Typically it's Outlook but
> >>>> Word and Excel will just lock up
> >>> randomly in a Citrix
> >>>> sesssion. It doens't matter if it's a
> >>> seamless session or
> >>>> published desktop. sometimes we will
> >>> get this error message
> >>>> in the event logs:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Event Type: Error
> >>>> Event Source: Application Hang
> >>>> Event Category: (101)
> >>>> Event ID: 1002
> >>>> Date: 12/19/2005
> >>>> Time: 3:46:10 PM
> >>>> User: N/A
> >>>> Computer: 351CITRIX01
> >>>> Description:
> >>>> Hanging application WINWORD.EXE ,
> >>> version 11.0.6568.0, hang
> >>>> module hungapp, version 0.0.0.0
<http://0.0.0.0> <http://0.0.0.0 <http://0.0.0.0>>
> >>> <http://0.0.0.0/> <http://0.0.0.0/
> >>> < http://0.0.0.0/>>, hang
> >>>
> >>>> address 0x00000000.
> >>>>
> >>>> For more information, see Help and
> >>> Support Center at
> >>>>
> >>> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp
> >>> <
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp>
> >>>>
> >>> <
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp
> >>> <
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp>>.
> >>>> Data:
> >>>> 0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
> >>>> 0008: 69 6f 6e 20 48 61 6e 67 ion Hang
> >>>> 0010: 20 20 57 49 4e 57 4f 52 WINWOR
> >>>> 0018: 44 2e 45 58 45 20 31 31 D.EXE 11
> >>>> 0020: 2e 30 2e 36 35 36 38 2e .0.6568.
> >>>> 0028: 30 20 69 6e 20 68 75 6e 0 in hun
> >>>> 0030: 67 61 70 70 20 30 2e 30 gapp 0.0
> >>>> 0038: 2e 30 2e 30 20 61 74 20 .0.0 at
> >>>> 0040: 6f 66 66 73 65 74 20 30 offset 0
> >>>> 0048: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 0000000
> >>>>
> >>>> Other times we get nothing and the only
> >>> thing to show that it
> >>>> is locked is the processor spikes to
> >>> either 25%, 50% or 75%
> >>>> (never to 100 though). I have just
> >>> turned off cpu tuning on
> >>>> the server to see if it makes a
> >>> difference. My feeling thoug
> >>>> his that an application will lock up
> >>> still but now take 100%
> >>>> of the cpu. Has anyone seen this
> >>> before and have a solution?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks all,
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Jeff Pitsch
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
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