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Inventory Task Crashing Altiris Agent on Vista?

Updated: 17 Jun 2010 | 11 comments
jon.baker's picture
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Shiney new NS with CMS 7 SMS 7 and Dell Client Manager.

The Install went smooth enough and things appear to behave well except for the inventory plug-in as soon as an inventory task is assigned to the vista client the agent goes boom.

All other task seem to work fine.

 

thoughts?

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GVGO's picture
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2009
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We have same problem

When send inventory task to Win Vista Bussines SP1workstation Altiris agent crash.

Nombre del evento de problema:    APPCRASH

  Nombre de la aplicación:                  aexnsagent.exe
  Versión de la aplicación:                    7.0.0.3356
  Marca de tiempo de la aplicación:   499222eb
  Nombre del módulo con errores:     StackHash_1e0f
  Versión del módulo con errores:      6.0.6001.18000
  Marca de tiempo del módulo con errores:    4791a7a6
  Código de excepción:                        c0000374
  Desplazamiento de excepción:         000b015d
  Versión del sistema operativo:          6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.6
  Id. de configuración regional:          3082
  Información adicional 1:                   1e0f
  Información adicional 2:                   a9a3c7077da6f98fbbbf85b7e47c2ef6
  Información adicional 3:                   651c
  Información adicional 4:                   a916d4fe53080d76a179461f45e8e404

We have not logs on Workstation.

yurym's picture
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2009
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I am having the same

I am having the same issue.

Anybody know of  fix?

Blaine Baker's picture
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May
2009
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Me too

I'm also having this issue. If anyone has made any headway with it I'd be glad to hear about it.

Blaine Baker
Information Security Administrator

MySpace, Inc.

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2009
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Known Issue

According to the knowledge base, this is a known issue and the Symantec support team is investigating:
https://kb.altiris.com/article.asp?article=46615&p=1

Has anyone opened a support case with Symantec with this issue and provided the information needed.  Luckily, we are not running vista on any machines yet, so I have not experienced this issue.

RS

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Jul
2009
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solution?

is there a hotfix for this problem yet?

best regards
 
Åge Handeland

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2009
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In the works

According to the link about:

The issue has been identified and verified as fixed. A hot-fix is being developed for this issue and will be released as soon as it is ready. While no committed release date is available, the target is within the next few weeks. No further testing is necessary, however the below information is kept for tracking purposes.

Rene Kolga's picture
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2009
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KB updated and the fix is available

The KB (https://kb.altiris.com/article.asp?article=46615&p=1) has been updated and the final fix posted.
Inventory Solution 7.0 SP1, that is coming out shortly, will also include this fix.

Regards,
Rene

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Nov
2009
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Additional Information

 Hi Everyone,

At this stage i m convinced that the issue is not purely vista-related as i have seen the same behavior on other OS and therefore fully agree with what KB46615 states.

However the issue is still unknown. Having gone trough several memory dump analysis nothing interesting came out from it that could determine the cause except that ntdll.dll containing kernel functions is involved when the crash occurs.

Running a task inventory 7 on a fresh installation of XP SP2, Vista SP1 and Vista SP2 has just gone fine for me.

Therefore, still thinking that it is not completely system-related but application-related i have performed further tests and started by installing `Microsoft Office 2007'  on a Vista SP2 box. Then i opened the Symantec  Management Console, run an Inventory Task and guess what ??? CRASH.

I uninstalled MS Pack Office 2007, restarted the box then run the inventory task again and guess what ??? no crash !!!! I then reinstalled  `Microsoft Office 2007' but only 'Microsoft Access' component without any other component or tool, run the inventory task again and again crashed the Altiris agent.

All this leads me to think that Frameworks as DotNet or Core Services as MSXML might be involved in the crash.

Still investigating.......

Keep you posted

 

Troy Whittaker OLD's picture
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2009
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Same here, seems to be

Same here, seems to be spreading 1-2 weeks after our CMS7 rollout.  Only affecting Vista SP1 clients though.  I've logged a case with Symantec and sent the requested crashdumps.

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2009
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Latest News

 Hi Guys,

A fix is currently available but not yet released for testing purposes. It actually fixes the issue i described above in my previous post.  If you applied KB article 46615 and the issue still remains please contact Symantec Technical Support. They should help you getting the new version of the InvAPI.dll .

Cheers

Troy Whittaker OLD's picture
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2009
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 Hotfix is out, not in SIM

 Hotfix is out, not in SIM yet though.  Check KB49771 for update and installer.