Re: Singleton class fails on reboot

From:
"Doug" <DugzDC@blueyonder.co.uk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Date:
5 Jul 2006 10:13:09 -0700
Message-ID:
<1152119589.023993.246760@j8g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
keepyourstupidspam@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

Hi,

I am writing a windows service. The code runs fine when I start the
service when my machine is running but
it fails to start automatically when the machine reboots. The code
bombs out when it reaches code that tries to access
a singleton class. This is the code.

void ClientLogging::initClientErrorLog(InstallationInfo install)
{

  // next line fails on a reboot
  string szLogLevel =
ConfigManager::Instance().getConfigMgrValue("LOG_LEVEL");

  Logging::Instance().Initialize("IseeCltLog");

  Logging::LogLevel severity =
Logging::Instance().toSeverity(szLogLevel);

  m_pFileLogAppender = new FileLogAppender(severity, logFile); //this
line fails on reboot
  if(false == Logging::Instance().addAppender(m_pFileLogAppender))
  {

  }

}

The strange thing is ClientLogging is also a singleton, the first one
that is called, and this works fine.
This is called using:

ClientLogging::Instance().initClientErrorLog(install);

But it is inside this that the problems arise, on the line as seen
above

string szLogLevel =
ConfigManager::Instance().getConfigMgrValue("LOG_LEVEL");

The code just terminates.

Is there anything I can do to prevent this, any pragma.
Could this be because I initialize static variables.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Enda


Your second flagged failure involves file access. I'm guessing your
first flagged failure also involves file access (maybe reading a config
file?)

I can only think of one thing - a security issue: the user your service
is starting as after a reboot is not the same user as you are when you
start it manually, and the former doesn't have access rights to the
required files?

But I'm probably wrong...

I think the singleton thing is a red herring.

Doug

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