1. Balasubramanian Natarajan
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. Tuesday, 27 February 2024 13:03 PM UTC

Team,

we are in PowerBuilder 2022 Build 1900, Windows Server 2019

in some particular cases, we have a system error, while trying to print some PB reports from our PB application.

Event viewer logs are attached.

 

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Chris Pollach @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Tuesday, 27 February 2024 22:07 PM UTC
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. # 1

Hi Balasubramanian;

  PB itself mostly calls MS-Window API's to get things done. The PBSHR module is the PB run time's API gateway for low level "C" calls to the O/S. So if that fails and the PB runtime cannot "Catch" the error (or the called sub-routine does not "raise" the error back to the PB runtime to catch) - then a mini-crash dump is created and the PB App would simply disappears. That is because your PB App is the Main Task and a crashing sub-task detected by the O/S that does not catch a System Error then penalizes the main Task (AKA your PB App).   :-(

  Since you indicate that this crashing issue happens sometimes when printing, I suspect that this crashing issue is environmentally agitated somehow. It could be a printer driver issue as one example. If the print driver crashes (it's a sub-task), it could take the PB App with it if it does not handle an I/O error CATCH properly. My suggestion in order to see if that hypothesis is correct, would be to issue a PrintGetPrinter() PB command. Then log the default printer just before the DC/DS.Print() command. If you then find that the crashes are happening around a certain printer (or model thereof), then that might be a trigger to update the printer driver and/or contact the printer vendor for help.

  If your app is running under Citrix / RDP (etc) and the printer seems to be the issue, then I would contact your RDP / Citrix Admin to see if there might be a system setting that needs tweaked.  HTH

Regards .. Chris

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