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PixInsight => General => Topic started by: jwaters125 on 2019 November 30 19:14:32

Title: PI Log or Dump File? / PI Running In Debug Mode?
Post by: jwaters125 on 2019 November 30 19:14:32

Does PI create a log-file or create a dump when something happens?  My Win7 laptop has Blue Screened several time running Rel 1.8.8-2 with WBPP Rel 1.4.2.  There's nothing in my Win7 Pro Mini-Dump location.  Does PI keep track of its executions?

Can PI be run in debug mode?

Title: Re: PI Log or Dump File? / PI Running In Debug Mode?
Post by: pfile on 2019 November 30 20:10:37

at least on OSX when a process terminates abnormally there is a logfile generated by the system that shows which thread crashed and what the call stack was for that thread (and all the other threads too.)

on windows, i don't know. there is an "event viewer" but i've had limited success on postmortem analysis using that tool.

PI can be run from the command line, and it does output a couple of things here and there to the console, but it's not too much.

don't know about debug mode, juan would have to comment.

rob

Title: Re: PI Log or Dump File? / PI Running In Debug Mode?
Post by: jwaters125 on 2019 November 30 20:36:06

Thanks Rob.  Windows 'Event Viewer' is mostly useless for these things.

Title: Re: PI Log or Dump File? / PI Running In Debug Mode?
Post by: John_Gill on 2019 November 30 22:22:09

Hi,

When Windoze has a blue screen there is normally an error code like 0x000012345, displayed for a second or two before the pc reboots. If you can get that code, then a Google search will indicate what the problem is.

Hope this helps
John