On two of the four machines I’m running Live Mesh on, I found the Mesh Operating Environment (moe.exe) repeatedly crashing. It was completely stable on the other two machines, but on these two machines it would just crash, restart, and crash again a few minutes later.
The crash details were fairly sparse (only the Windows Error Reporting logs, not direct entries from Mesh), but I noticed they referenced mscorlib (the .NET runtime object library). I also noticed that both of these machines had Silverlight installed, while the two machines that were working fine didn’t. Silverlight does include a .NET CLR implementation, so I figured it was possible there was some conflict.
Sure enough, the crashes stopped on both machines once I uninstalled Silverlight. In fairness, I’ve installed a number of alpha versions of Silverlight on my machine, so it’s possible this was not a general incompatibility with Silverlight and Mesh and just remnants of those previous versions.
In any case, hope this saves some of you some time and frustration. I still highly recommend Mesh for file sync – I will write up a post on my experiences with various tools shortly.
Incidentally, Silverlight was also responsible for Firefox crashes on GoDaddy.com.
Oh, and the error details if you’re interested.
Fault bucket 281906332, type 5
Event Name: CLR20r3
Response: None
Cab Id: 0
Problem signature:
P1: moe.exe
P2: 0.9.3103.2
P3: 486d7249
P4: mscorlib
P5: 1.1.0.0
P6: 47a94131
P7: c91
P8: 10
P9: System.ArgumentException
P10:
Attached files:
Additional Details:
Version=1
EventType=CLR20r3
EventTime=128617313073500000
ReportType=1
Consent=1
UploadTime=128617313104130000
Response.BucketId=281906332
Response.BucketTable=5
Response.type=4
Sig[0].Name=Problem Signature 01
Sig[0].Value=moe.exe
Sig[1].Name=Problem Signature 02
Sig[1].Value=0.9.3103.2
Sig[2].Name=Problem Signature 03
Sig[2].Value=486d7249
Sig[3].Name=Problem Signature 04
Sig[3].Value=mscorlib
Sig[4].Name=Problem Signature 05
Sig[4].Value=1.1.0.0
Sig[5].Name=Problem Signature 06
Sig[5].Value=47a94131
Sig
.Name=Problem Signature 07
Sig.Value=c91
Sig[7].Name=Problem Signature 08
Sig[7].Value=10
Sig
.Name=Problem Signature 09
Sig.Value=System.ArgumentException
DynamicSig[1].Name=OS Version
DynamicSig[1].Value=6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.6
DynamicSig[2].Name=Locale ID
DynamicSig[2].Value=1033
UI[2]=C:\Users\Tim\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Live Mesh\GacBase\Moe.exe
UI[3]=Mesh Operating Environment has stopped working
UI[4]=Windows can check online for a solution to the problem.
UI[5]=Check online for a solution and close the program
UI=Check online for a solution later and close the program
UI[7]=Close the program
State[0].Key=Transport.DoneStage1
State[0].Value=1
FriendlyEventName=Stopped working
ConsentKey=CLR20r3
AppName=Mesh Operating Environment
AppPath=C:\Users\Tim\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Live Mesh\GacBase\Moe.exe