Hibernation and UNC paths - apps crash after restore

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Michal Borsuk

Hello.

I have searched archives, but didn't find a solution.

I have a disk mapped from another computer. If I start an application
from that mapped disk, then hibernate, all apps crash soon after
restoring the computer from hibernation.

Is this a known bug, or is it a problem on my computer?
 
It's most likely a problem with that computer - or more appropriately, its
network card and/or drivers. Hibernating a network connection severs the
connection and upon resuming from hibernation the network is in an uncertain
state, thus the crash. A different network card and/or newer drivers might
help.
 
Richard said:
It's most likely a problem with that computer - or more appropriately, its
network card and/or drivers. Hibernating a network connection severs the
connection and upon resuming from hibernation the network is in an uncertain
state, thus the crash. A different network card and/or newer drivers might
help.
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Possibly the problem lies somewhere else. A program opened from an UNC
path just crashed when I changed network card properties from "automatic
mode" to "half duplex". Upon that change windows reported that "D: is no
longer available", and the program opened from d: (a mapped UNC drive)
had an Access Violation.

Is it normal that applications crash soon*) after losing read (or RW?)
access to the drve they were started from? Same crash happens when I
start an EXE from a partition in a file, and then the partition becames
unavailable.

*) Actually, they crash as soon as start doing something around them,
i.e. winamp will play for a long time until I click "Stop", Excel just
dissapears when I move the mouse inside etc.

Thanks,
 
Yes, that's normal. Most software these days uses overlays and other tricky
techniques so you don't have to load the whole kit-n-caboodle into memory at
once. If you run a program from a networked drive and the drive vanishes
.... well, that does tend to make things interesting.
 
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