More IIS crashing and blank .asp pages

Thu Feb 24 17:54:23 EST 2000

Im afraid I have no idea where to start with this.  Im a little confused by
the stack trace - it appears asp!TerminateExtension is calling directly into
PyWinThreadState_Free(), which is very strange.

Do the Python ActiveScripting IE or WSH samples work?  They all use the same
Active Scripting engine...

To track this down, it probably needs to be run under the debugger to at
least see WTF is going on.  However, this is going to be quite a pain to do,
as you need debug builds of all the dlls.  And even then, the problem may
not be obvious (but should be solvable still!).

I wish I had more ideas for you.  I keep meaning to get myself a dual-proc
machine :-)

Mark.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Nadler [mailto:dixon at channel21.com]
> Sent: Friday, 25 February 2000 6:56 AM
> To: 'ASPadvanced'; 'python-list at python.org'
> Cc: 'mhammond at skippinet.com.au'
> Subject: More IIS crashing and blank .asp pages
>
>
> OK, I thought I fixed the crashing bug by stepping up to the newest Python
> language version (as well as the win32 extensions).
> Now, my server is spitting out blank .asp pages for those which
> use python.
> If Python is not declared as the page language, the asp pages work fine.
> After the install, the blanks started appearing.
> All the paths look fine in registry.
> I just checked the machine again, and it has crashed again as a result of
> something in the python threading (same as error that was happening). This
> leads me to believe that the python actually IS being executed.
> However, the
> output is just the blanks...
> Any clues?
>
> ( Intel dual PIII 550 Xeon, 1G RAM, NT 4.0 SP 6a, IIS 4)
>
> p.s.: the blank pages source look like this:
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
>
> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY></BODY></HTML>
>
> and the error in app log is still:
> > > An object call caused an exception.
> > > (IID: {51372AEF-CAE7-11CF-BE81-00AA00A2FA25}) (Method: 3)
> > > (Microsoft Transaction Server Internals Information: File:
> > > i:\viper\src\runtime\mtxex\activity.cpp, Line: 889)
> > > (Exception: C0000005) (Address: 0x1e6054df)
> > > PyWinTypes15!PyWinThreadState_Free(void) + 0xF
> > > asp!TerminateExtension + 0x3D35
> > > asp!TerminateExtension + 0x33E3
> > > asp!TerminateExtension + 0x313B
> > > asp!TerminateExtension + 0x7AC3
> > > asp + 0x325C6
> > > mtxex!MTSCreateActivity + 0x1F3C
> > > mtxex!MTSCreateActivity + 0xF3E
> > >
>
>