Problems with hosted version

I reboot my windows 7 with perfectly functioning webpagetest and suddenly in pagetest window there is only blank space when urlblast start a test.

This was the first reboot in 2011: there is some problem with the date?

regards[hr]
This is the log file (urlblast can write it)
2011/01/04 09:46:58 -1 0 1 7 953866 Disk Size (MB)
2011/01/04 09:47:00 -1 0 1 8 108831 Disk Free (MB)
2011/01/04 09:47:00 -1 0 1 9 6 OS Version Windows Vista (6.1.7600 SP 0.0 Suite 0x00000100 Product 1)
2011/01/04 09:47:00 -1 0 1 10 0 Computer Name RICCARDOZANUSSI
2011/01/04 09:47:00 -1 0 1 11 8 IE Version 8.0.7600.16385
2011/01/04 09:47:00 -1 0 1 12 234 URLBlast Version 2.0.0.234
2011/01/04 09:47:01 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug Logging on user:user1, password:2dialit

2011/01/04 09:47:01 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug Logon ok, loading user profile

2011/01/04 09:47:02 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug Profile loaded, locating profile directory

2011/01/04 09:47:02 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug DoUserLogon successful for user1

2011/01/04 09:47:02 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug Waiting for startup synchronization
2011/01/04 09:47:02 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug Running…
2011/01/04 09:47:02 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug Requesting work from www.boomik.com/work/getwork.php?video=1&location=Test&key=TestKey123
2011/01/04 09:47:05 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug [urlblast] - Job of type ‘text/plain’ received
2011/01/04 09:47:06 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug Url to be tested: http://www.coches.net
2011/01/04 09:47:06 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug Flushing DNS cache
2011/01/04 09:47:06 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug DnsFlushResolverCache returned 1
2011/01/04 09:47:06 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug [urlblast] - Executing ‘ipconfig.exe /flushdns’
2011/01/04 09:47:06 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug [urlblast] - Successfully ran ‘ipconfig.exe /flushdns’
2011/01/04 09:47:06 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug Launching… user=‘user1’, path=‘C:\Web Site\pagetest.exe’, command line=‘“C:\Web Site\pagetest.exe”’

2011/01/04 09:47:06 -1 0 1 3 0 Browser Launched Cleared Cache-Run_1^http://www.coches.net

and this is the urlblast.ini
[Configuration]

Test Type=4
Startup Delay=30
Log File=c:\Web Site\log\log
Thread Count=1
Timeout=500000
Reboot Interval=0
Clear Cache Interval=30
browser=pagetest.exe
debug=1

; Where to get work from
Url Files Url=http://www.boomik.com/work/
Location=Test
Location Key=TestKey123

thanks

more…

if I put in thr URLblast.ini file “Clear Cache Interval=1”, Urlblast stop working with a dump few tenth of seconds after start…

Shpuldn’t be related to the clear cache interval (though I’ll look into the crash). That just controls how frequently the drive is defragged and the OS user profiles deleted. The cache folders are cleared regularly before each test.

That is a REALLY long timeout (also shouldn’t be the cause of the problem but something to be aware of). The timeout is per-test and in seconds so you’re effectively configuring it to allow a single test page to take 5 days.

There isn’t a problem with the date or new year that I have seen, the public instance machines have all been running clean through the transition, including the IE9 tester which is Windows 7 as well.

Try commenting out the browser=pagetest.exe line (put a semicolon at the beginning) and restarting urlblast to see if that helps. Might also check the system restore history to see if there were any updates or installs since the last reboot.

do u want I send you the .dmp file of the crash?[hr]
the string to pagetest is

http://www.boomik.com/runtest.php?f=xml&r=yes&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coches.net%2F&location=Test

also: i have to kill urlblast because it doesnt shutdown

I try to put a semicolon there but nothing happened. and if i put a clear cache inrteval to 1, keep on crashing

regards

Let me see if I can reproduce the crash with the clearcache interval set to 1. If you’re feeling adventerous and back up your ulblast, pagetest.dll and pagetest.exe you can grab the absolute latest version from here: http://www.webpagetest.org/work/update/update.zip (build 255). It should be backwards compatible with your setup (it just won’t honor browser=pagetest.exe in the ini file, that was moved to a setting on the server). I don’t think I fixed anything that would have caused the crashes you are seeing but it has gone through quite a few internal changes.

Thanks,

-Pat

Thanks! with the new version problem is clear: no parameter passed to the browser. Any idea?

2011/01/05 08:29:57 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug Requesting work from www.boomik.com/work/getwork.php?video=1&location=Test&key=TestKey123&pc=RICCARDOZANUSSI
2011/01/05 08:29:57 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug [urlblast] - Job of type ‘text/plain’ received
2011/01/05 08:29:57 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug Url to be tested: http://www.coches.net/
2011/01/05 08:29:57 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug Flushing DNS cache
2011/01/05 08:29:57 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug DnsFlushResolverCache returned 1
2011/01/05 08:29:57 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug [urlblast] - Executing ‘ipconfig.exe /flushdns’
2011/01/05 08:29:57 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug [urlblast] - Successfully ran ‘ipconfig.exe /flushdns’
2011/01/05 08:29:57 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug Launching… user=‘user1’, path=‘C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe’, command line=‘“C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe” about:blank’

2011/01/05 08:29:57 -1 0 1 3 0 Browser Launched Cleared Cache-Run_1^http://www.coches.net/
2011/01/05 08:30:06 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug OnClose()

2011/01/05 08:30:06 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug Flushing DNS cache
2011/01/05 08:30:06 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug DnsFlushResolverCache returned 1
2011/01/05 08:30:06 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug [urlblast] - Executing ‘ipconfig.exe /flushdns’
2011/01/05 08:30:06 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug [urlblast] - Successfully ran ‘ipconfig.exe /flushdns’
2011/01/05 08:30:06 -1 0 1 20 0 Debug Launching… user=‘user1’, path=‘C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe’, command line=‘“C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe” about:blank’

2011/01/05 08:30:06 -1 0 1 3 0 Browser Launched Cached-Run_1^http://www.coches.net/

now i can launch the IE with the page but the it take a long time to finish to load the page. probably was a security problem with the User1. I desinstall the last IE updates
How can I reinstall the “User1”? maybe some registry entry was corrupted

It might be easiest to do a system restore to some point late last month when things were still working. It looks like the LA test agent for the public instance had the same problem and a system restore fixed it. I haven’t been able to figure out why it is happening to only a few systems though.

Thanks,

-Pat

;( can’t do that. more things. with the new version of pagetest and new user - manually defined -
2011/01/05 17:11:52 -1 0 1 15 0 Terminated Hung Browser Cleared Cache-Run_1^http://www.corriere.it/
2011/01/05 17:11:53 -1 0 1 1 1 Log Files Upload
2011/01/05 17:11:53 -1 0 1 4 0 CPU String Intel(R) Core™2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
2011/01/05 17:11:53 -1 0 1 5 2405 CPU MHz
2011/01/05 17:11:53 -1 0 1 6 3071 Total RAM (MB)
2011/01/05 17:11:53 -1 0 1 7 953866 Disk Size (MB)
2011/01/05 17:11:53 -1 0 1 8 107960 Disk Free (MB)
2011/01/05 17:11:53 -1 0 1 9 6 OS Version Windows Vista (6.1.7600 SP 0.0 Suite 0x00000100 Product 1)
2011/01/05 17:11:53 -1 0 1 10 0 Computer Name RICCARDOZANUSSI
2011/01/05 17:11:53 -1 0 1 19 0 Info Screen: 1280 x 1024 - 32 bpp
2011/01/05 17:11:53 -1 0 1 11 8 IE Version 8.0.7600.16385
2011/01/05 17:11:53 -1 0 1 12 255 URLBlast Version 2.0.0.255

seem that ex’plorer hung and urlblast restart, but looking to the little window fo urlblast no restart is seen[hr]
another strange thing (but i never checked it when everything ran smothly):
the registry is something like that but i read the documentation and it has to be more:

New situation: I canceld the user1 and something more happens
an IE is launched with the right url, urlblast records a new directory in the result path with the 3 files: testinfo, testinfo json and url. But no result is written and the explorer windows is closed at the timeout. it is an explorer windows with all the stuff. it is not a pagetest windows without toolbar

any idea?

regards and thanks

The explorer window is because of the updated pagetest and urlblast you installed (I moved the configuration to a server setting). You can try rolling back to the earlier code to see if pagetest.exe works for you. Unfortunately I still don’t have a very good idea for what might be going wrong. I can send you debug builds of pagetest if you want to capture a bunch of trace data.

last message: it’s working with the old versions!
probably it was a problem of the user “user1”

where are the server settings?

They don’t exist in the 2.0 distribution. I’ll be packaging up a 2.1 release in the next week or two that has all of the updates from the last couple of months (it is controlled in locations.ini).

ok. thanks a lot. I saw your server room: I would like to have something like that: I have everything on one computer but you know, in Europe space costs a lot

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