Questions Tagged [Windbg]

WinDbg is a user and kernel mode debugger for Windows. It can be used to debug both native and managed code.

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Possible event handle leak in Asp.Net

Our Asp.Net web application seems to have some leaks, because it uses unusual amount of memory and many opened handles. Used handle from SysInternals to check all are of type Event. There are around ...
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developing windows device driver for windows 10 on windows 11

I need to develop a device driver that works with windows 10 (and possibly Windows 11, but mainly it is required for windows 10). My system is windows 11. One way to develop a driver for windows 10 is ...
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How to resolve memory leak in IIS Single Page App

I have an older .net Framework 4.5.2 Single Page App (SPA) that has been running with no memory issues for about 5 years. Then about 1 month ago, it started exhibiting a memory leak. There were no ...
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Does windbg preview no longer support debugging .net framwork programs?

Recently found that windbg preview(1.2205.18001.0) can not debug the .net framework program, all .cordll commands will output "CLR DLL status: No load attempts", and several friends around ...
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What does DebugView's "Enable Verbose Kernel Output" do?

I've followed Microsoft's "Write a Hello World Windows Driver (KMDF)" and wasn't sure how to see the output on WinDbg. After trying to set the Debug Print Filter registry to 0xFFFFFFFF, ...
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Windbg javascript engine: Casting from a byte array to a type

So i have the following data structure: struct A_TYPE { UINT64 a; UINT32 b; UINT32 c[16]; } and i have a byte array similar with the following code: var buf = new ArrayBuffer(128); var numbers = new ...
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windbg debug Read access violation with memcpy through dumpstack

From below Exception Record, I found that read access violation happened on source address of memcpy. EXCEPTION_RECORD: (.exr -1) ExceptionAddress: 5ca43767 (VCRUNTIME140!memcpy+0x00000507) ...
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Is it possible to debug a binary-only process with Visual Studio?

Is it possible to debug a binary-only process for which I don't have any sources with Visual Studio in a way that I can have Debug breakpoints on entries of any loaded DLL ? Or do I have to use WinDbg ...
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WPF program main thread stuck, how to analyze

I have a wpf program that recently stuck, I found that the main thread triggered the GC, and wait indefinitely during the process of creating the background GC thread, how do I continue ...
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Threadpool not starting any new threads, but is below limit

I have a app that uses async tasks to get Data from a MQTT server. After I updated my System to Windows 11 I started noticing the Problem that the async tasks are not starting after the App runs for ...
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What does "AVbad_allocstd" means in a call stack of a crash dump debugged with WinDbg?

I opened a crash dump file (.dmp) with both Visual Studio and WinDbg. VS shows this line in the output: Unhandled exception at 0x12345678 (ucrtbase.dll) in myapp.exe.1234.dmp: Fatal program exit ...
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Debugging Chrome Crashpad crash report from Mac

My application somehow manages to crash a customer's Chrome browser on Mac. I asked the customer to enable crash reports and send me the dump file next time it happens. I got a Crashpad.zip file that ...
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Does Windbg display addresses as virtual or physical when issuing a command such as

Would someone be able to clarify whether when you type a command at the Windbg command prompt are the 64 bit addresses displayed in the very first column virtual or are they actually physical ...
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Cannot use !heap -flt s in WinDbg Preview

I am trying to debug a memory leak with WinDbg Preview (the Windows Store application). I can execute !heap -s to obtain the list of heaps, then !heap -stat -h <address_of_a_heap> to get ...
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Unable to verify checksum for avformat-58.dll

The following is a crash dump produced by my video streaming application written in .NET Core 3.1 with Windows Forms 32-bit. I'm trying to workout how to best interpret this information. I cannot find ...
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