Multiple Hoster Sessions

[tdproduction]

Greetings All.... I had a very strange situation mysteriously appear at my show last night. First a little background. I have been running Hoster now for several months and has run flawlessly until last night. I booted the computer as usual and deleted the left over entries in the song list from the last show. Then started entering the new requests. While arranging the entries in show order, hoster stopped responding. Now here is where things start getting weird. Pressed CTRL-ALT-DEL to end the task, and found 8 sessions of hoster running. Ended all the tasks and restarted hoster. Now all the new entries I entered in the play list is gone and the old entries from the previous show are now back again. I look in the task bar and there are now 6 sessions of hoster running. I ended the tasks again and the last session has the new playlist. Now I'm really stumped. Completely shutdown everything and reboot. Hoster came up with the new entries in the playlist. OK so now it's time to start the show. Very big night... Over 60 singers. About 2 hours in to the show, here we go again. Exact same thing happens. All the new entries disappear and the previous play list comes back and this time there are 4 sessions running. I begged forgiveness from the crowd and stopped everything to reboot the system. Most of the current playlist came back but I had to sort through and rekey in several requests. Made it through the rest of the night OK. Has anybody else seen this before? I have Hoster running on a P4 3.2 GHz rackmount PC with 512 MB ram, Windows 2000 Pro with the lastest SP's and Patches, 50 GB of free HD space and hoster is the only app installed. I doubt virus's would be a problem because this system is not on the internet. Again this has worked perfectly up to now.

[Beavis]

did you try re-installing the software?

did you look in your task manager after you rebooted and started hoster to see how many apps were running?

you should try and duplicate your problem at home and see if it happens again.

[tdproduction]

No I have not reinstalled yet. After reboot there were no apps running until I started Hoster. I have a another show at the same place tonight. I going there this afternoon to look at the computer but I was hoping someone has seen this before and could give me a good starting place.

[Beavis]

i would do a repair first and then try and duplicate what happened.

[Beavis]

if i were you i would get over there asap and fix the problem so you dont have to break that "BIG SWEAT" when you have to reboot tonight.

i would bring a portable device tonight incase you have to reboot. at least it wont be quit while your rebooting.

the wont know whats going on when the music is playing.

[George]

I believe I'd take my computer with me when I left also. It's not that hard to
set up prior to showtime..

I'm not saying somebody else has had their fingers on it, but can you say for certain no one has?

Doesn't sound like this kind of thing just "mysteriously" drops down out of the sky, unless it may be a processor taking a dump or something of the kind.

Just an opinion.

George

[tdproduction]

I'm pretty sure nobody has tampered with it. The hard drive is hot plug so I take it with me when I leave the system setup on site. Plus there are boot passwords. Somebody would have a very hard time tampering with this computer without me knowing about it.

[George]

Good..... Glad you took the precautions.

Anyway, that eliminates tampering as a possibility.

I can't find a similar incident in searching the forums.

The only thing I can think of would be to go into the control panel and remove Hoster. Then go to the Hoster folder and manually delete .exe file. Don't touch the database, songbook, playlists, and songs folder containing the KMA files. Shut down for a few minutes, then download the program and start out fresh. That should keep you from losing anything, but give you a clean program.

If something glitched on downloading/installing, you'd still have the .exe file in the recycle bin to restore.

George