Troubleshooting
Stuff related to troubleshooting PC problems.
Daylight Savings Time went into effect this past Sunday, and nearly all of my devices updated correctly. However, my Windows XP work PC didn't. My first inclination was to check the date/time settings. It was set to Eastern Standard Time, and the checkbox for adjusting for daylight savings was checked. I then set the clock ahead an hour, but a few minutes later it reverted back when it synchronized with the time server. I contacted the system administrator, and he said that my workstation was one...
I've been struggling through a Team Foundation Server 2008 install with Sql Server 2008 over the weekend. It seems to be having an especially hard time with the SQL Server Reporting Services. After analyzing a few things, I determined that the configuration tool was having an issue due to some prior installations of software. The report urls were pointing to a SQL Express directory. I went about setting up the virtual directories manually. This required setting up an application pool, and I assigned...
When doing a deployment today, the build script errored out with a SQL timeout. C:\Projects\MyProject.proj (2374,3): error: PROJDB: Error # -2 on Line 0: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. The line in the msbuild script was executing a backup/restore script to refresh the database for one of our teams. I decided to change the StatementTimeout for the ExecuteDDL task and try again. This time I received another error. C:\Projects\MyProject.proj...
While building a new Web Deployment project, I received the error "Unable to build project output group 'Content Files from (Active)." I checked all of my settings and everything seemed to be correct. I found a support article on Microsoft's Help and Support site describing why this occurs. Apparently, if you have missing files in your project this will happen. In this case, it turns out that a folder of images had been moved in the source tree but not in the project file. This was causing them to...
Today I worked on a friend's PC with a bad copy of AVG Free installed. Whenever I tried to run it, it would throw the message "Could not initialize AVG Anti-Virus kernel interface." I tried uninstalling it, but I received the same message. I ended up googling the error message, and someone suggested to download the installer to actually remove it. Unfortunately, the installer quickly said it had uninstalled... too fast to have actually done anything. When I tried to install it again, it again went...