#12 Crash on Startup:

[Anonymous]

I had a persistent crash on startup for the longest time. The process would start and then crash about 30 seconds later. I think it might be related to a tivo trying to transfer files which are no longer accessible. Anyway, I don't know C# but I managed to track down the exact line using print statements and it turns out it was just an error logging line. I commented it out, recompiled using the free version of Visual Studio from MS, and it seems to be working again.

Comment out the
Quote:
errorLog.WriteMessage("ParseVideoUrl", "Unknown File: " + url, Log.Severity.SEVERITY_MINOR, con);
in function:

protected void ParseVideoUrl(string url, HttpListenerContext con, ContainerItem ci)

in the main file, TivoDotNet.cs

I don't have any idea why the error log was crashing the service, or if anyone else has had this problem, but I thought I'd post just in case. I had been uninstalling and reinstalling the service, rebooting, and only getting a successful start once in a blue moon before.

[Steve Ash]

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Do you have a drive mounted on "C:"? One problem that certainly exists is the hardcoded log file location. Although- I don't think this will cause a crash, but I had experienced a similar problem, when I had nothing mounted on "C:"