FMSE crash with 2 simultaneous server side scripts

scriptmaster fmse crash

March 5, 201312 yr

Newbies

Hi,

I use Scriptmaster with Filemaker Server 12 on Mac OS Mountain Lion.

I have 2 different server side script, both using external functions as GetURLasText and XPathParse.

When the 2 scripts are executed in the same time, the FMSE process crashes and scripts are stoppped.

I noticed in the data that sometimes, the result of XPathParse in script A was not what it was supposed to be, but actually it was the result of XPathParse command executed in script B.

Any idea ?

Julien

March 5, 201312 yr

Author
Newbies

It looks like another post : http://fmforums.com/forum/topic/78783-filemaker-server-crashing/

March 6, 201312 yr

I saw something like this on Windows Server 2008R2.

I found the problem to be in one of the scripts, the results I was getting back from the query that I was using the XpathParse on was not what it should have been and the error trapping I was doing missed the result I was getting.

I think this caused the 'cross fertilisation' of results of the scripts and eventually an FMSE crash. Since I found the undocumented response from the query and trap for it it has not happened again - that was about 4 months ago.

It's tedious, but I found the 'bad' response by writing the response to a field each time it was returned - slowed the process down (which actually delayed the error!), but I did get a record of the returned xml

Hope that helps

Tim

March 8, 201312 yr

Author
Newbies

I reproduce the problem with 2 scripts running on 2 different databases.

I think the problem occurs only on Filemaker Server, not in Filemaker Pro.

If I open 2 windows in FM Pro, each one running a script every second (a script including XpathParse command), then no crash happens (and results are not inverted).

I really think of stop using Server side script with ScriptMAster commands, but having one FM Pro always opened, running batch scripts.