last night at 6pm (2 minutes before i go home) the helpline tell me a program i have inherited is crashing on site.
the person who wrote it has been gone for over a year, and i am the one left to maintain it.
next i learn that the program has been crashing since monday morning, and they want it fixed urgently. so of course they wait 3 days before telling me >
next problem, this is just about the most robust program we have ever produced. it has to find every known error in its input data and report it, so no input data should EVER crash it.
so this morning i started looking at the problem.
this program crashes on this site. however the identical same program works on 5 different machines with the same input and same data.
i cannot reproduce this problem anywhere else. and my initial debug shows the program is crashing at random on this one machine.
it looks like the machine is at fault, but this doesnt get me anywhere, since site really need the program to work.
i need something to take my mind off this horrible mess.