benchmark does not restart on reboot on official run

[jimmacd]

attempted an official run. I am prompted that the system will shut down... it does, system reboots and never restarts the benchmark.

[ghost]

Does the restarter run? Please look at the registry key: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\opbm -- See what it is set to.

Also, is the user the system auto-loads to the same one that started the Official Run?

[jimmacd]

okay... so I came in this morning and saw that I'd inadvertently copied the run directories into directory at the C:\ .... resulting in a rather long path for that registry key. I moved them to a directory with a nice short name and now it works. I'm not sure if the path length (# of chars) is an issue or not. I will report back when this run completes (fingers crossed).

[ghost]

Jim, I am testing this today with a lot of long path, space-in-path, etc. options.

[jimmacd]

I believe there is some historical DOS'ishness hiding in there...

[ghost]

The maximum key length (excluding quote characters) is 255 characters. If you need to have paths that are that long as valid locations from which to run OPBM, I can modify the restarter.exe app to load a text file with parameters, allowing for up to 255 characters to touch the application's directory. Otherwise I can display an error when the path will be too long to execute a reboot on an official run.

Let me know, Jim.

[ghost]

Worked, 253 characters (254 with trailing null): "C:\Users\rick\Desktop\test with space\test with more spaces\making for a very long path\ a \opbm\restarter.exe" "C:\Users\rick\Desktop\test with space\test with more spaces\making for a very long path\ a \opbm" "C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\java.exe" opbm.jar

Did not work, 255 characters (256 with trailing null): "C:\Users\rick\Desktop\test with space\test with more spaces\making for a very long path\ ab \opbm\restarter.exe" "C:\Users\rick\Desktop\test with space\test with more spaces\making for a very long path\ ab \opbm" "C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\java.exe" opbm.jar

When the RunOnce registry key was not executed, it remained populated. When it ran, it was cleared out.

[jimmacd]

No need to support my abberant case... the super long path I had was completely synthetic and a mistake... I was using the github zip file name as a folder and managed to get one inside another... not exactly an expected use case. Good to know though. My run completed in the short directory.

[ghost]

Okay, I'll add the user error dialog for directory paths yielding a restarter string beyond 254 characters in length.

[van-smith]

Verified. Renamed directory path to >255 characters and appropriate failure dialog appeared.