Sporadic Faulting application cscript.exe, faulting module ntdll.d

Faulting application cscript.exe, version 5.7.0.16535, faulting module
ntdll.dll, version 5.2.3790.3959, fault address 0x000417af.

We do a lot of vbscripting, lots of reading files and writing files,
creating html reports, etc. We have some of our own COM objects that we wrote
for data access to retrieve data for the reports.

As of late, about a month or two ago, our scripts started crashing for no
apparent reason and would throw the above error in the event log. This is
sporadic- some days the scripts will execute to completion, but other days it
takes a good four or five tries before they will execute to completion.
After adding several debugging lines and researching which file should be
getting written to, I have found that it seems to crash while a .Read,
.ReadLine, .Write, or .WriteLine method.

Does anyone have at least a suggestion on what we can do to help prevent
these crashes or any other troubleshooting advice?

Also any input on what the ntdll.dll is/does may be beneficial in helping
troubleshoot.

BrianKudera
Fri Dec 14 13:57:01 PST 2007

FYI I think I figured out a possible solution. I needed to set some exclude
directories in my virus scanner. Hopefully this will resolve the problem.


"Brian Kudera" wrote:

> Faulting application cscript.exe, version 5.7.0.16535, faulting module
> ntdll.dll, version 5.2.3790.3959, fault address 0x000417af.
>
> We do a lot of vbscripting, lots of reading files and writing files,
> creating html reports, etc. We have some of our own COM objects that we wrote
> for data access to retrieve data for the reports.
>
> As of late, about a month or two ago, our scripts started crashing for no
> apparent reason and would throw the above error in the event log. This is
> sporadic- some days the scripts will execute to completion, but other days it
> takes a good four or five tries before they will execute to completion.
> After adding several debugging lines and researching which file should be
> getting written to, I have found that it seems to crash while a .Read,
> .ReadLine, .Write, or .WriteLine method.
>
> Does anyone have at least a suggestion on what we can do to help prevent
> these crashes or any other troubleshooting advice?
>
> Also any input on what the ntdll.dll is/does may be beneficial in helping
> troubleshoot.