FormatMessage gets Error 317 while trying to read EventLog - visual-c++

I had nearly similar problem with this.
FormatMessage Fails with error code 317
The difference is it is said as an answer that this is caused by "FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM" but when I remove it it happens again.
I am trying to read from EventLog in Windows Server 2003. But when I try to use FormatMessage function I get 317 error.
Interestingly same code works for Windows Server 2008. How can I fix this or what can I use instead of FormatMessage?
My code:
FormatMessage(FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_HMODULE |
FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM |
FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER,
g_hResources, // handles DLL containing message table
MessageId,
0, // Default language
(LPWSTR) &pMessage,
0,
(va_list*)pArgs )
Good day to you..

Error 317 is "The system cannot find message text for message number 0x%1 in the message file for %2.". That means the MessageId is not an error number known to the system.
You are combining FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_HMODULE and FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM, which doesn't make sense. Where do you want to get the message from? Do you want to get it from g_hResources or from the system error message table? From the comment, it sounds like you want to get it from g_hResources, in which case you should remove FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM. If you still get error 317, then it means that the message number you passed doesn't exist in g_hResources.

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UWP Windows 10 app crashes in release mode but works fine in debug mode

My UWP app is crashing in Release mode and works fine in Debug mode but I can't put my finger on what the issue is but I know it's related to a combination of raising an event from System.Threading.Timer and MVVMLight.
I created an new dummy application and use the same code (ZXing.net.mobile where I used 2 portable libraries and I used my own user control which is a simplified version of theirs - I'm using events instead of <Action>). This works fine and I'm currently trying to put more steps into it i.e. include mvvmlight and navigation but so far, I can't reproduce the problem in this dummy app.
The error I'm getting is:
Unhandled exception at 0x58C1AF0B (mrt100_app.dll) in Company.MyApp.App.exe:
0xC0000602: A fail fast exception occurred. Exception handlers will not be
invoked and the process will be terminated immediately.
Followed by:
Unhandled exception at 0x0107D201 (SharedLibrary.dll) in
Company.MyApp.App.exe: 0x00001007.
When looking at the Threads window, one of the worker thread has the following information if that's of help.
Not Flagged > 4012 0 Worker Thread <No Name>
System.Private.Interop.dll!System.Runtime.InteropServices.
ExceptionHelpers.ReportUnhandledError Normal
[External Code]
System.Private.Interop.dll!System.Runtime.InteropServices.ExceptionHelpers.
ReportUnhandledError(System.Exception e) Line 885
System.Private.Interop.dll!Internal.Interop.InteropCallbacks.ReportUnhandledError
(System.Exception ex) Line 17
System.Private.WinRTInterop.CoreLib.dll!Internal.WinRT.Interop.WinRTCallbacks.
ReportUnhandledError(System.Exception ex) Line 274
System.Private.CoreLib.dll!System.RuntimeExceptionHelpers.ReportUnhandledException
(System.Exception exception) Line 152
System.Private.Threading.dll!System.Threading.Tasks.AwaitTaskContinuation.
ThrowAsyncIfNecessary(System.Exception exc) Line 784
System.Private.Threading.dll!System.Threading.WinRTSynchronizationContext.Invoker.
InvokeCore() Line 182
System.Private.Threading.dll!System.Threading.WinRTSynchronizationContext.Invoker.
Invoke(object thisObj) Line 162
System.Private.CoreLib.dll!System.Action<System.__Canon>.
InvokeOpenStaticThunk(System.__Canon obj)
System.Private.WinRTInterop.CoreLib.dll!Internal.WinRT.Interop.WinRTCallbacks.PostToCoreDispatcher.AnonymousMethod__0() Line 266
MyCompany.MyApp.App.exe
MyCompany.MyApp.App.ViewModels.ValidateHandler.Invoke(string pin)
MyCompany.MyApp.App.McgInterop.dll!McgInterop.ReverseComSharedStubs
.Proc_(object __this, System.IntPtr __methodPtr) Line 6163
MyCompany.MyApp.App.McgInterop.dll!Windows.UI.Core.DispatchedHandler__Impl.Vtbl.Invoke__STUB(System.IntPtr pComThis) Line 45147
[External Code]
Within my QR Code UserControl, it's using a System.Threading.Timer and it raises an event when a QR Code is found:
timerPreview = new Timer(async (state) =>
{
....
// Check if a result was found
if (result != null && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(result.Text))
{
Debug.WriteLine("Barcode Found: " + result.Text);
if (!this.ContinuousScanning)
{
delay = Timeout.Infinite;
await StopScanningAsync();
}
else
{
delay = this.ScanningOptions.DelayBetweenContinuousScans;
}
OnBarcodeFound(result.Text);
}
timerPreview.Change(delay, Timeout.Infinite);
}, null,
this.ScanningOptions.InitialDelayBeforeAnalyzingFrames,
Timeout.Infinite);
In the page that host the QRCode UserControl, I've got the following code:
private async void ScannerControl_BarcodeFound(string barcodeValue)
{
var dispatcher = CoreApplication.MainView.CoreWindow.Dispatcher;
await dispatcher.RunAsync(Windows.UI.Core.CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal, () => {
Debug.WriteLine(barcodeValue);
GetViewModel.BarcodeFound(barcodeValue);
});
}
As you can see, I'm passing the QrCode value to my ViewModel and from there, I sent a message and then re-direct to another page:
public void BarcodeFound(string barcodeData)
{
Messenger.Default.Send<string>(barcodeData, MessengerTokens.QrCodeFound);
this.NavigationFacade.NavigateToMyOtherPage();
}
I could keep going and provide additional code, but as I add additional breakpoints I can see that the code and passing the correct value and going to the correct location but eventually it throws this error. If I add additional error handlers or dispatcher code, it eventually works and goes to the next page as expected but when I click on a button in my CommandBar, it then takes a while and it eventually throws the same error, so by adding these additional bits of code, I feel I'm just pushing down the problem further down the line.
Anyone got any suggestions on how I get around this problem. I wish I could share the full app but definitely can't. So I know it will be hard to provide a solution, but if anyone has suggestions I'd appreciate them.
As I said, I think the issue is a result of a combination of threading and mvvmlight but it's driving me nuts that my test app so far is working exactly as expected, so I'm pretty sure it's not Zxing or my UserControl.
Any help, suggestions would be greatly appreciated or if you need me to provide additional info, please let me know what and I'll try to provide it.
Thanks.
Well, this was a painstaking exercise and a huge waste of my time!
It was down to a few things!!
I was using a different DataService in Releasemode which wasn't implemented. By implemented, I mean all my functions were returning the NotImplementedException or null values.
When passing my model to my ViewModel, I did not check if it was null, thus causing unhandled exceptions.
I had a chain of mvvmlight events (Messenger.Default.Send<>) being triggered and none were checking for error or null values.
While all of these were caused by poor validation from my part, these errors are extremely poorly reported in Release mode! if from the get go, I had received a NullReferenceException or any kind of exceptions, it would have put me in the right direction immediately, but throwing errors such as the one I've had were totally useless but it didn't but lesson learned!!
All I can say is that if this problem ever happens to you, don't waste your time rewriting code or trying to find workarounds. First work your way through your workflow/chain of events and hopefully, you'll eventually catch the culprit.
Hope this helps.
Sadly we were facing a similar issue, ours was involved with setting the qualifier values for changing localization on the fly in the app but came up with mystery fail fast/SharedLibrary native errors. Upgrading the Microsoft.NETCore.UniversalWindowPlatform package from 6.0.4 to 6.0.7 seems to have resolved the issue.
Only thought of this because another place I was researching this error involved someone solving a SharedLibrary problem by upgrading their NETCore package, that case was an earlier one (5.x), but figured it was worth a shot.

How to ignore specific errors from the New Relic Dashboard

Helllo,
My application is a web server that fires many requests to other servers. We set up a maximum timeout on those requests, and whenever the timeout is reached, the connection is closed and a ESOCKETTIMEDOUT rises.
Error: socket hang up
at createHangUpError (http.js:1472:15)
at Socket.socketCloseListener (http.js:1522:23)
at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:117:20)
at TCP.close (net.js:465:12)
I want to exclude these errors from the New Relic Dashboard, since they distort the error rate and other metrics. Hiding them doesn't work either, because they still count in the error rate.
How can remove specific errors (that do not have a HTTP status code) from my Dashboard?
You can pass status codes to ignore to the error collector. If you are configuring the New Relic agent using environment variables you can use a comma separated list of codes as the value for NEW_RELIC_ERROR_COLLECTOR_IGNORE_ERROR_CODES.
See the README.
If you are using newrelic.js to do so you can set the error_collector.ignore_codes value to an Array of status codes to ignore:
See the example config.
Important caveat: when setting this value manually you are overriding the default value of 404 which means that if you do not specify 404 in your manual configuration the Error Collector will start logging all 404 errors in your application (which you probably do not want).
I noticed you have javascript, I'm not sure if my solution can help you but I'll answer in the hope it does.
I use Java agent, and we have the same kind of problem. So far the only way that I found that can do something near what I want is having the specific errors wrapped in a dedicated exception ("NewRelicIgnorableException") and wrap whatever error I don't want to see in it.
Then I'd have to go into the dashboard/application and select "error collection". Last, I'd fill in the "Ignore these errors" with the full package name AND exception class name, like com.mypackage.NewRelicIgnorableException. Save and enjoy. These particular errors should not impact your apdex, but they will still count towards RPM and other metrics.
Other solutions have drawbacks. For example if I call ignoreexception the RPM and time metrics will not count. If you click the "hide error" button you only hide them from the error panel, but everything else will be as usual. If you ignore by status code you can get more or less the same results as ignoring the specific exception, but without any hope for fine control.
It's a pity that there's so little documentation on their site, I had to run tests to find these out.

Java exception: "Can't get a Writer while an OutputStream is already in use" when running xAgent

I am trying to implement Paul Calhoun's Apache FOP solution for creating PDF's from Xpages (from Notes In 9 #102). I am getting the following java exception when trying to run the xAgent that does the processing --> Can't get a Writer while an OutputStream is already in use
The only changes that I have done from Paul's code was to change the package name. I have isolated when the exception happens to the SSJS line: var jce: DominoXMLFO2PDF = new DominoXMLFO2PDF(); All that line does is instantiate the class, there is no custom constructor. I don't believe it is the code itself, but some configuration issue. The SSJS code is in the beforeRenderResponse event where it should be, I haven't changed anything on the xAgent.
I have copied the jar files from Paul's sample database to mine, I have verified that the build paths are the same between the two databases. Everything compiles fine (after I did all this.) This exception appears to be an xpages only exception.
Here's what's really going on with this error:
XPages are essentially servlets... everything that happens in an XPage is just layers on top of a servlet engine. There are basically two types of data that a servlet can send back to whatever is initiating the connection (e.g. a browser): text and binary.
An ordinary XPage sends text -- specifically, HTML. Some xAgents also send text, such as JSON or XML. In any of these scenarios, however, Domino uses a Java Writer to send the response content, because Writers are optimized for sending Character data.
When we need to send binary content, we use an OutputStream instead, because streams are optimized for sending generic byte data. So if we're sending PDF, DOC/XLS/PPT, images, etc., we need to use a stream, because we're sending binary data, not text.
The catch (as you'll soon see, that's a pun) is that we can only use one per response.
Once any HTTP client is told what the content type of a response is, it makes assumptions about how to process that content. So if you tell it to expect application/pdf, it's expecting to only receive binary data. Conversely, if you tell it to expect application/json, it's expecting to only receive character data. If the response includes any data that doesn't match the promised content type, that nearly always invalidates the entire response.
So Domino in its infinite wisdom protects us from making this mistake by only allowing us to send one or the other in a single request, and throws an exception if we disobey that rule.
Unfortunately... if there's any exception in our code when we're trying to send binary content, Domino wants to report that to the consumer... which tries to invoke the output writer to send HTML reporting that something went wrong. Except we already got a handle on the output stream, so Domino isn't allowed to get a handle on the output writer, because that would violate its own rule against only using one per response. This, in turn, throws the exception you reported, masking the exception that actually caused the problem (in your case, probably a ClassNotFoundException).
So how do we make sure that we see the real problem, and not this misdirection? We try:
try {
/*
* Move all your existing code here...
*/
} catch (e) {
print("Error generating dynamic PDF: " + e.toString());
} finally {
facesContext.responseComplete();
}
There are two reasons this is a preferred approach:
If something goes wrong with our code, we don't let Domino throw an exception about it. Instead, we log it (instead of using print to send it to the console and log, you could also toss it to OpenLog, or whatever your preferred logging mechanism happens to be). This means that Domino doesn't try to report the error to the user, because we've promised that we already reported it to ourselves.
By moving the crucial facesContext.responseComplete() call (which is what ultimately tells Domino not to send any content of its own) to the finally block, this ensures it will get executed. If we left it inside the try block, it would get skipped if an exception occurs, because we'd skip straight to the catch... so even though Domino isn't reporting our exception because we caught it, it still tries to invoke the response writer because we didn't tell it not to.
If you follow the above pattern, and something's wrong with your code, then the browser will receive an incomplete or corrupt file, but the log will tell you what went wrong, rather than reporting an error that has nothing to do with the root cause of the problem.
I almost deleted this question, but decided to answer it myself since there is very little out on google when you search for the exception.
The issue was in the xAgent, there is a line importPackage that was incorrect. Fixing this made everything work. The exception verbage: "Can't get a Writer while an OutputStream is already in use" is quite misleading. I don't know what else triggers this exception, but an alternative description would be "Java class ??yourClass?? not found"
If you found this question, then you likely have the same issue. I would ignore what the exception actually says, and check your package statements throughout your application. The java code will error on its own, but your SSJS that references the java will not error until runtime, focus on that code.
Update the response header after the body can solve this kind of problem, example :
HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) facesContext.getExternalContext().getResponse();
response.getWriter().write("<html><body>...</body></html>");
response.setContentType("text/html");
response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache");
response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");

XPages Custom Error Page - get error message and line

I'm trying to generate a custom error page for my xpages. I googled a lot of solutions and so far I get an error page telling me, that an error occured.
But I can't get the information what exactly happened (in this case the error is, that an "doc" has to be saved, but i named the variable "docs" just to get error).
All I do is:
var errObj = requestScope.error;
output = errObj.getCause().getErrorPropertyId();
output = errObj.getCause().getComponentId();
As soon as I try to call getExpressionText() I get an error 500.
How do I get the information, where the error happened (line number) and the variable that caused the error? - just like I do using the standard error page.
The error line and details are not easily accessible from requestScope.error. If you look at the source code for the latest release of Mark Leusink's Debug Toolbar, you'll see he's parsing the stack trace to get the details.
However, you can access all the relevant information using the underlying Java class for the SSJS exception - com.ibm.jscript.InterpretException using getErrorLine(). The getLocalizedMessage() method gets the error detail that usually starts "Script interpreter error". The getExpressionText() method retrieves the line that threw the error.
If you take a look at the XPages OpenLog Logger project I put on OpenNTF, that's what I use to log full details to OpenLog. http://www.openntf.org/Internal/home.nsf/project.xsp?action=openDocument&name=XPages%20OpenLog%20Logger
You can see the source code of the OpenLogPhaseListener which uses those methods here: https://github.com/paulswithers/openlogjava/blob/master/OpenLogJava/WebContent/WEB-INF/src/com/paulwithers/openLog/OpenLogPhaseListener.java
Even if you're not a Java expert, from use of SSJS the key parts should be understandable. Line 84 captures uncaught exceptions - when XPages routes to the default error page. That uses the methods I mentioned.
Lines 98 to 105 are the ones that log out all the details if you just use a catch block, passing OpenLogBean.addError(e, this) where e is the error object and this is the component the error occurs on. error.getError() in the Java code retrieves that error object. To get the typeahead in SSJS you'll need to use catch(e:com.ibm.jscript.InterpretException) I believe.
I haven't tested this, I've just working back from what I used for the project on OpenNTF.
Have a look at this XSnippet by Tony McGuckin: http://openntf.org/XSnippets.nsf/snippet.xsp?id=custom-error-page-cw-cause-and-stacktrace-information. It uses the following to output details on the error:
var output = requestScope.error.toString()+"\n\n";
if(requestScope.error instanceof com.ibm.xsp.exception.XSPExceptionInfo){
var codeSnippet = requestScope.error.getErrorText();
var control = requestScope.error.getErrorComponentId();
var cause = requestScope.error.getCause();
output += "In the control : " + control + "\n\n";
if(cause instanceof com.ibm.jscript.InterpretException){
var errorLine = cause.getErrorLine();
var errorColumn = cause.getErrorCol();
output += "At line " + errorLine;
output += ", column " + errorColumn + " of:\n";
}else{
output += "In the script:\n";
}
output += codeSnippet;
}
return output;
For now I've dealt with this problem by using the Debug Toolbar and the OpenLog Database.
If an error occurs the user only gets a custom error page (using the example of the Debug Toolbar) with the information, that something went wrong. So he does not have to bother with any other problems or even the Stack Trace. But at the same moment he gets the error page, the error is logged in our Log-Database with all informations needed (like line, exact error message etc.).
I've also implemented an "Report this problem" Link-Button to create a new E-Mail containing important information about the session the user is currently in.

Node.js : EBADF, Bad file descriptor

If I reload my application (from the browser with the reload button) a lots of times like 50 reload/10 seconds it gives me this error:
events.js:45
throw arguments[1]; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: EBADF, Bad file descriptor
This seems to me like a bandwidth error or something like that, originally I've got the error when I played with the HTML 5 Audio API, and If I loaded the audio file 10-15 times sequentially then I've got the error, but now I've discovered that I get the error without the Audio API too just by reloading the site a lots of times, also Safari gives me the error much faster than Chrome (WTF?)
I'm using Node.js 0.4.8 with express + jade and I'm also connected to a MySQL database with the db-mysql module.
I can't find any articles on the web about this topic what helps, so pleeease let me know what can cause this error because it's really confusing :(
By "reload your application" do you mean refresh your app's home page from a browser, or actually stop and restart the node.js server process? I assume the former, in which case if you can't reliably reproduce this it will be pretty tricky to debug, especially since you don't have a good stack trace to pinpoint the source. But if you use the express.js app.error hook (docs here) you'll want to log the error path from the "Bad file descriptor" error, which should hopefully clue you in to whether this is a temporary file that got deleted or what. In terms of the actual cause, we can only offer guesses since "Bad file descriptor" is a very generic low level error that basically means you are calling an operation on a file descriptor that is no longer in the correct state to handle that operation (like reading a closed file, opening a file that has been deleted, etc).
#CIRK, take a look at this: https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/1189
it's not a node problem, but a system tuning issue.
edit: or maybe it's related to this error in connect 1.4.3:
https://github.com/senchalabs/connect/issues/297
if this is your case, just try to upgrade it
This error may result from using fs to save a file whose name is a number rather than a string. File names must be strings:
Incorrect:
const fileName = 12345;
const fileContent = "The great croissant."
fs.writeFileSync(fileName, fileContent);
Correct:
fs.writeFileSync(`${fileName}`, fileContent);
Also correct:
const fileName = "12345";
fs.writeFileSync(fileName, fileContent);

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