BUG: Modifying Tasks Containing Encrypted Text Gets an AV on Windows 95

• Microsoft SQL Server versions 6.0, 6.5

SYMPTOMS

Using Object Transfer from within SQL Enterprise Manager (SEM) and marking the transfer as Scheduled creates a new scheduled task. When you modify the task, you will notice that it is using the Xfragent.exe utility and that the task contains encrypted text. If you attempt to modify the task from SEM while running on Windows 95, SEM to generates an access violation (AV) with the following information:

SQLEW caused an invalid page fault in
module OLEAUT32.DLL at 0137:65346a23.
Registers:
EAX=006c204c CS=0137 EIP=65346a23 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=5f89a750 SS=013f ESP=008eee04 EBP=008eefe4
ECX=0000000f DS=013f ESI=119cfffe FS=1ac7
EDX=00000002 ES=013f EDI=00000111 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 3e 03 fa 03 f9 f7 d1 83 c7 04 23 f9 8b c8 57
Stack dump:
00000111 00000001 00000001 1f019acb 119d0002 00000111 00000001 5f89a750
01740000 008ef4f8 335c0019 47930002 0f0e8e50 000017cf 00030174 001905fa

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, do not try to modify the task from SEM running on Windows 95. If necessary, modify the task from the SQL Server's copy of SEM or from another computer running Windows NT.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft SQL Server versions 6.0 and 6.5. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: crash gpf gp fault

Keywords : SSrvEntMan SSrvGPF kbbug6.50 kbbug6.00
Version : WINNT:6.0,6.5
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug