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Doesn't work after restarting PeerBlock (XP) #159

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
On Windows XP, in some instances the Microsoft IpFilterDriver gets stuck in
a "stopping..." state, and becomes unresponsive.  We attempt to start this
driver when PeerBlock starts (it's usually already started), and to stop it
when PeerBlock stops.  Especially as this driver appears to be already
running the first time PeerBlock is started after a reboot, we probably
shouldn't be trying to stop it on our way down as there's no need to do so,
and since it apparently has problems stopping at times.

Note that symptoms of this are that in the peerblock.log file, we note that
the driver-service is not running (state 3) if we hit this while attempting
to load IpFilterDriver.  And without IpFilterDriver running, our
pbfilter.sys can't be loaded into the network stack so we're unable to
actually do anything . . . so the main PeerBlock UI will log neither
allowed nor blocked packets, and the "ping 3.0.0.0" test will fail.

A fix for this is in-progress, should be completed soon.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by peerbloc...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2009 at 1:16

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
As I mentioned on Issue 80 , the attached is a sub-product of the tests there , 
not
sure if it may help here : r.187 starts with no crash , when the previous r.183 
was
killed (not exited via systray icon) . I made comments in the log (capital 
letters).

Original comment by JRF...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2009 at 6:42

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Thank you for the nicely commented logsets - this definitely confirms the 
theory I've
been working with, based on one of our testers who's let me access his machine 
over
the internet.

I've got a fix for it that appears to be working on his machine, will email you 
a
copy of the apparent fix soon.

Original comment by peerbloc...@gmail.com on 13 Oct 2009 at 4:31

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This issue was closed by revision r195.

Original comment by peerbloc...@gmail.com on 13 Oct 2009 at 4:32