LSLEditor won't run under it's own name

This is really odd, if I try to run LSLEditor.exe it will crash with a Net 2.0 error and attempt to send a crash report to MS. However, if I rename the file to anything else, e.g. LSLEditor1.exe it runs with no problem. I tried turning my firewall and virus scanner both off with no effect. Neither logged any problems in any case, there was a Windows .NET 2.0 application event for the crash report, but nothing else.

This is on XP Sp2 with the latest updates and .NET 2.0 also with latest updates.

Anyone have any thoughts on this? I sure don't.

It sounds like you need to flush lsleditor from the .net assembly cache. You see .net is based on a bytecode which is compiled to machine code at runtime or ahead of time and cached. If the cached version gets corrupted... you get the picture.

Where the cache is, i don't remember. How you flush or force a recompile I don't remember.

Run filemon (then lsleditor) to find out where the bad cache entry is hiding.

Filemon: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Filemon.mspx

In the mean time, open your C:\Windows\Prefetch folder and delete the entry for lsleditor.exe

Hmmm, I'll give it a shot, I thought recompile happened every time it was run unless you ran ngen on it. Worth a try. Thanks.

Still no joy and still not working unless I change the name . OTOH I've learned a bunch of stuff .

The prefetch files just keep track of what resources such as DLL's the apps use, clearing it had no effect.

The only applications whose assemblies are cached are the ones in the Globabl Assembly Cache and LSLEditor isn't one of them. Everything else is compiled whenever it is used.

This problem doesn't occur on a different machine if the file is locally run. LSLEditor will run under it's own name or any other.

No version of LSLEditor no matter what the name will run over our local network on a different machine.

Running with firewall and virus checker (Kaspersky) off (not started at all) makes no difference.

Running with or without the plugin directory or LSLEditorHelp.chm file makes no difference.

I can't find any references to this kind of problem on the net and remain completely bamboozled.

Suggestions are very welcome.

Have you thought about posting to his forum?

http://www.lsleditor.org/forum/

Also are you running it from a network drive? There is a problem with that.

I assume you've reinstalled a few times at this point

In the interests of localizing the problem, have you tried it with the network unplugged? Usually this works fine, just skips the check for a new version. Perhaps that check is crashing for some reason ...

Also, rather than posting to his blog or forum, I would first try the lsleditor thread here:
/54/16/182108/1.html

It won't run over the network from any computer, but it will run on other computers if local no matter what the name. It's just on one computer where I have to rename it.

Network on or off makes no difference.

Clearly something on one computer doesn't like the specific name LSLEditor.exe, however I searched the registry and there is no instance of that string either.

grrr.

any differences in international character set/localization setup between that computer and the others?

It works fine on my pc with .net 2.0 but .net 3.0 is out now try updating to that maybe that will clear any bugs you have.

Are you Running any kind of anti spyware program?
I see references on the web to a malitious file called lsleditor.exe, not related as far as I can tell, but your spayware system may be blocking it by name rather than signature.

here is the referance:
http://www.prevx.com/filenames/X1311889761958856534-0/LSLEDITOR.EXE.html

That Prvx.com reference is very interesting, although I think they may have a mistake there, that sounds like the real LSLEditor.

Anyway, I use Kaspersky which I've tried running without by shutting off autostart and rebooting, so none of it's processes are running. I've also put an explicit exclusion in and in any event, their virus list doesn't include LSLEditor. I also don't think it's a security problem because I don't get a log from either Kaspersky or the firewall of any problem with LSLEditor.

I suspect Strife was onto something, but I sure can't see how it gets corrupted.

I tried running this under Visual Studio 5 debugger here's what I got. It looks like everything is getting loaded, but when it starts and is named LSLEditor.exe something in the initial configuration setup fails. I can only guess that maybe when the manifest is read it blows up, but that's a complete WAG.

This is running LSLEditor.exe which fails:

'LSLEditor.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_32\mscorlib\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\mscorlib.dll', Skipped loading symbols. Module is optimized and the debugger option 'Just My Code' is enabled.
'LSLEditor.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\Downloads\LSLEditor\LSLEditor.exe', No symbols loaded.
'LSLEditor.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Windows.Forms\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.Windows.Forms.dll', Skipped loading symbols. Module is optimized and the debugger option 'Just My Code' is enabled.
'LSLEditor.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.dll', Skipped loading symbols. Module is optimized and the debugger option 'Just My Code' is enabled.
'LSLEditor.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Drawing\2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\System.Drawing.dll', Skipped loading symbols. Module is optimized and the debugger option 'Just My Code' is enabled.
'LSLEditor.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Configuration\2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\System.Configuration.dll', Skipped loading symbols. Module is optimized and the debugger option 'Just My Code' is enabled.
'LSLEditor.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Xml\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.Xml.dll', Skipped loading symbols. Module is optimized and the debugger option 'Just My Code' is enabled.
An unhandled exception of type 'System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException' occurred in System.Configuration.dll

Additional information: Root element is missing.

The program '[3428] LSLEditor.exe: Managed' has exited with code -532459699 (0xe0434f4d).

This is running the same file, but renamed to LSLEditor1.exe which works correctly:

'LSLEditor1.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_32\mscorlib\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\mscorlib.dll', Skipped loading symbols. Module is optimized and the debugger option 'Just My Code' is enabled.
'LSLEditor1.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\Downloads\LSLEditor\LSLEditor1.exe', No symbols loaded.
'LSLEditor1.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Windows.Forms\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.Windows.Forms.dll', Skipped loading symbols. Module is optimized and the debugger option 'Just My Code' is enabled.
'LSLEditor1.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.dll', Skipped loading symbols. Module is optimized and the debugger option 'Just My Code' is enabled.
'LSLEditor1.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Drawing\2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\System.Drawing.dll', Skipped loading symbols. Module is optimized and the debugger option 'Just My Code' is enabled.
'LSLEditor1.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Configuration\2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\System.Configuration.dll', Skipped loading symbols. Module is optimized and the debugger option 'Just My Code' is enabled.
'LSLEditor1.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Xml\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.Xml.dll', Skipped loading symbols. Module is optimized and the debugger option 'Just My Code' is enabled.
'LSLEditor1.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'iyn3idm9', No symbols loaded.
The program '[2264] LSLEditor1.exe: Managed' has exited with code 0 (0x0).

Hmm. I asked about character sets because I believe this has been seen when an XML file has been saved in unicode format and the parser, for whatever reason, is not expecting that. Small changes in strings then turn out to make an unexpected parsing mismatch.

I'm not sure what exactly was wrong, however the issue seems to have been with the user configuration file for LSLEditor.exe. I deleted the directory:

C:\Documents and Settings\...\Local Settings\Application Data\Van_der_Heijden_Holding_B

which is where the user.config files for all the instances of his stuff is kept. Apparently there was something wrong with the LSLEditor one and deleting it fixed it.