Lost profile data on crash
it's the second time now that i lost all the data in a profile file (.pcf) after a crash
could it be that you are not properly closing the file handle or something?
is this a known problem? will it get fixed?
it's the second time now that i lost all the data in a profile file (.pcf) after a crash
could it be that you are not properly closing the file handle or something?
is this a known problem? will it get fixed?
Lost profile data on crash
Hello,
this is not a known problem! As you say this might be due to a file being opened for writing and not being closed before the app crashes. I will look into it.
Can you reproduce the problem? What system configuration do you have?
cheers
Jan
Lost profile data on crash
no i'm not able to reproduce
i checked file monitor and saw that the profile is only opened for writing just after the confirmation of the password dialog (btw saving the password doesn't work for me)
probably my notebook battery died in an unfortunate moment
Lost profile data on crash
Do you use "Secure Storage" or does the EC store all login credentials in the cisco profiles?
I'm wondering because i use windows API to modify the pcf files since they have an ini-like structure. So it appears unlikely to me that contents are destroyed due to a "dangling" file handle. I'd rather suspect some evil multi-threading problem :/
cheers
Jan
Lost profile data on crash
Maybe there is a workaround for this problem:
You can use "Secure Storage" with an empty password. The EC will then copy the login credentials from the .pcf files to it's own storage mechanism (no password dialog will appear on startup due to the empty password).
Please check if the client still crashes, and if that's the case please contact me via mail.
cheers
Jan
Lost profile data on crash
Well the crash didn't happen inside of Evil Client, sorry if I got you confused there.
My whole machine went down and took everything with it, empty notebook battery or something like that, maybe a bluescreen, I don't remember. After booting up again, the .pcf file was showing up like this:
[main]
UserPassword=
enc_UserPassword=
Lost profile data on crash
And no, I don't use the secure storage.
Lost profile data on crash
I see. As i said, the EC doesn't keep the profile files open, so i'm not sure what application is responsible for this behavior (or this is a bug in the win32 ini file API).
cheers
Jan