Re: Major lock-up with Mess Pro! - v2.69.2 onwards...

Rural Life Centre <info@...> wrote:

> Just a warning about a major crash we had with MP yesterday. It doesn't
> seem to matter which version (from 2.69.2 onwards) you are using as
> re-installing different versions doesn't clear the problem.

How long had you had 2.69.2 installed and in use before this happened - I
mean, had it seemed fine for weeks, or did it happen the first time you
tried that version?

If it's been days/weeks, what else has changed recently on your machine?  Eg
- MS's monthly fixes for Windows have just been released - do they
auto-install on your machine?  Did the crash happen before or after that?

> Basically the whole program froze with continuous hour-glassing (for 40
> minutes or more) as soon as the mouse was clicked anywhere within the main
> window (including the menu bar). The title bar reported Not Responding.

I'm pretty sure "Not Responding" is inserted into the title bar of a
hung/busy app, any app, by Windows, and I think it happens after Windows
sends some info ('a message') to a GUI app and doesn't get that
acknowledged.  ICBW.  

It's not necessarily always an indicator that that app has a problem;
sometimes it can mean that something else on the machine has gone wrong, but
Windows hasn't yet handed the app (that's been flagged Not Responding) back
control. 

> renaming Groups...

I wonder what MP rebuilds in the absence of Groups, so that this could work.

-- 
Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

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