Comments on: Making Software Troubleshooting Simple https://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/11/15/making-software-troubleshooting-simple/ Structural and Behavioral Patterns for Software Diagnostics, Forensics and Prognostics Tue, 05 May 2026 19:43:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Dmitry Vostokov https://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/11/15/making-software-troubleshooting-simple/#comment-10934 Dmitry Vostokov Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:50:18 +0000 https://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/11/15/making-software-troubleshooting-simple/#comment-10934 I particularly like the law of straight lines applied to spooler crash or hangs: don’t do printer driver elimination one by one - go straight and dump the spooler (or collect a postmortem dump) or if we cannot get dumps due to security reasons get the output from the following commands: .symfix !analyze -v !analyze -v -hang ~*kv 100 !locks lmv I particularly like the law of straight lines applied to spooler crash or hangs: don’t do printer driver elimination one by one - go straight and dump the spooler (or collect a postmortem dump) or if we cannot get dumps due to security reasons get the output from the following commands:

.symfix
!analyze -v
!analyze -v -hang
~*kv 100
!locks
lmv

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