[hobbit] Probs with BBWin 0.7

[Etienne Grignon]

Hi Roger,


2006/6/6, Roger WJ Alterskjær <Roger.Alterskjaer at vm.ntnu.no >:
>
>  On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 23:59 +0200, Etienne Grignon wrote:
>
> Well, I didn't receive any message from the BBWin mailinglist. You may
> explain your problem here  (I have Henrik agreement :) ) for the moment so I
> can help you faster.
>
>
> Thanks! Here's what I sent to the BBWin-list.  [image: :-)]
>

Indeed, I see in the mailing list archive your mail. I think some settings
are not well configured yet in my mailman settings because I didn't get your
mail which is not very useful for a mailing list :-)


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>
> Hi!
> I'm new to the list and BB/Hobbit. Just did a fresh (and successful)
> install of BB server and clients (linux and windows servers) when I
> discovered Hobbit. Installed Hobbit only to find out that the lates BB
> client couldn't talk to Hobbit.
>
> After that I found out about this project and the the cool BBWin version
> 0.7. The transition from BB client to BBWin went smoothly on Windows 2003
> Server. The VBS-script for generating BBWin.cfg is brilliant. However, the
> script didn't like running on a 64-bit Windows 2003 Server. FYI, I had to
> tweak the HKLM-registery line to read something like this:
> ...\Software\Wow6432Node\BBWin\...
> Problem solved!
>

For the moment, I have no server with 64-bit Windows 2003 at work, so that's
why I didn't confirm the support to it. I'm glad that you succeed to install
it. As you said, it seems that I have to arrange some parts of the registry
source code part which is different from the 32bit way. The msdn contains
interesting articles about that part.

Simple question : is every BBwin agent working on your 64-bits Windows once
you modified the registry ?
I'm really interested of the BBWin behavior on your 64bits Windows server.


 Got a problem, though: My one and only Windows 2000 Server seems to not
> like the service. Trying to restart the service couldn't stop it; had to
> resort to 'pskill'. Still, it's not reporting to my Hobbit server and I've
> gone over it from the registery settings to my bb-hosts file. Everything
> says it 'should' be working. But I'm a bit suspicious since the service is
> so difficult to do a restart. (The old BB client to BB server did work
> perfectly...)
>

Some users still report me that sometimes, they can't stop the service. In
reality, it seems that one agent never starts successfuly, which mean that
one of the agent is breaking the all threads at startup and that's why you
can't stop it after and why it never reports.
For this bug, I'm still figure out what's happen in this case because for
the moment, I never succeed to reproduce this behavior in Visual C++
debugger on my Windows XP station.
However, the agent cpu is for the moment the suspicious agent which may
cause this strange crash. You may try starting BBWin on your Win2000 without
the cpu loading directive.


 Other than that, I have to say this is a fantastic utility!! Thank you!!!
>
> -Roger Alterskjær
>
>
Thank you for your report.

Best regards,

-- 
Etienne GRIGNON
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