FoxPro Stack Fault

[tnblkbear]

I am supporting an app developed in FoxPro 2.6a and have recently started getting the following error message when running certain modules of the program:

Foxprow caused a stack fault in module <unknown>xxxx:xxxx Foxprow will close.

I am getting it on several Windows platforms (XP, 98, 2000) and there doesn't seem to be any reason for the error. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[andthensum]

Try deleting foxuser.dbf and foxuser.fpt files. They recreate at next program login.

 

[DSummZZZ]

Also, delete your indexes and recreate them. Don't just do a reindex. That error happens a lot with index file corruption.


-Dave S.-

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http://www.davesummers.net/foxprolinks.htm

 

[OnePunchMickey]

Try putting:

stacks = 10,256

in your CONFIG.SYS under 95/98 or CONFIG.NT under 2K/XP

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[rgbean]

I've also seen this problem when you don't limit the amount of memory that FPW can use. Make sure your CONFIG.FPW has a line like:

MEMLIMIT = 60, 2048, 16384

While some have suggested that these numbers are too low, they work for me!

Other applications are known to &quot;step on&quot; FoxPro's memory - old versions of Access, Win 3.x screen savers and virus checkers are among the usual suspects.

Rick

 

[tnblkbear]

Thanks to everyone for their help. Just to be sure that all of the bases were covered, I reindexed the files, increased the stack size and the memory limit. I am not sure which one worked, but the error has stopped occuring and the modules are working again. Thanks again.

 

[repete]

tek tips saves me again

i had the same error today after an uplanned server shut down, searched here for the error, and found this thread.

all i did was rebuild the indexes issuing the reindex command and my problem was solved

close data
clear memo
=adir(filelist,"*.dbf")
create cursor filname ( fname c(30))
index on fname tag fname
append from array filelist

scan
   scatter memvar
   if not inlist(m.fname,'FOXUSER.DBF')
      wait window m.fname nowait
      sele 0
      use (fname) exclusive
      reindex
      wait window dbf() nowait
      use
   endif
endscan
wait clear

Pete Bloomfield
Down Under