Very Strange AFP/SMB file service issue, slow, intermittent connections.

There's a bit of a saga to this, so please stay with me.
X-Serve G5, first loaded with 10.3.2, and over 2 years upgraded to 10.3.9. All the server has ever done is be a standalone file server to Mac only. There is no AD/OD intergration, or any fancy stuff about it, its just a dumb file server, serving Macs.
Recently we decided to put in a larger raid, and some new G5's, both PPC and Intel, and upgrade all the other G5's to 10.4. At the same time we thought we'd upgrade teh server OS to 10.4, so we had a full 10.4 site.
All updates went well, apart from the server. As soon as we started running 10.4 the server connections were really slow, and basically unworkable. I came on here and found little tweaks to do as other users were having similar problems, but with much more complex set-ups. The most puzzling thing was the apparent local caching issue.
If i copy a 50mg file/folder via either afp or smb, whatever happens the first time is longer, eg 1st 43s, 2nd 2sec, 3rd 2sec,, then re-boot, and its back to the same thing. If you disconnect, and secure empty trash you get the same thing.
Maybe more of an eye opener is a 110mb file/folder, 1st 75Sec, 2nd 38Sec, 3rd 32Sec.
Now i've given up and done a clean istall back to 10.3.9 on a seperate partition, and its instantly quicker in everything. eg. 50MB 1st AFP 5 Sec, 2nd AFP 5 Sec, 3rd SMB, 5 Sec, 110MB 1st AFP 9 Sec, 2nd AFP 9 Sec.
So i've fixed it, but by having to retrograde the OS back to 10.3.9. We don't use apple talk, only IP, we have no network issues, and spanning tree, etc, can't be the issue as it only affect appletalk!.
If i get a minute i'll do a clean install on 10.4, to see if the problem was the upgrade from 10.3 to 10.4..
Just wondered if anyone has had a similar experience, ot hoping that it may help someone in a similar situation. All i can think is maybe ACL's were the issue, or a newer/different version of AFP.
The new raid system showed the same throughput/connection speed on both OS', and the same network load, etc, is also on both OS', they were also not maxxed out, and the afp daemon wasn't eating CPU.

Retrograded back to 10.3.9, all works fine now!?!?!?!?

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I've seen something like this on my T400 when it was running Vista. Now that I use Win 7 it's been OK. I rather doubt that your issue is the same but I'm tossing it out here just on the off chance.
Im my case, I had to downgrade my Intel 5300 card to a 5100 (as suggested by a Lenovo 2nd-tier tech) to get things working.
My symptoms were a little different. Wifi was fine until I went back to a wired network. After that, trying to use the same wifi AP as before would end up associated, but no internet access. DHCP wasn't working. The GUI "find" app didn't work as expected either. Some APs showed up, and some didn't.
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Additional Info:
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Command: Smbclient //backroom/e -Utest%abc -c "put /tmp/test.txt abc\abcdata\test.txt"
This produces the following error:
Error writing file: ERRSRV - ERRerror (non-specific error code.)
0.0kb/s transferred
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We have bought two XServe G5 systems in the hope of setting up a load balanced pair that would provide redundant access to AFP/SMB file shares (plus web and email). We have an XServe RAID box which we where going to attach to both servers.
What have people done to get the redundancy we want. These are the options I have looked at:
1) Put XSan on the RAID and connect both servers to it and then reshare the connection. Reading the XSan I see that XSan is not good for re-sharing via AFP/SMB. Also, it seems that I would have to setup everything on each machine seperately as the settings are stored locally.
2) Split the jobs between the two servers say email/web on one and AFP/SMB on the other. Then setup IP Failover for each server to the other, so that if one server fails the other takes over it's jobs. I presume I cannot simply use a single volume for this as mounting the same volume on each of the servers will cause problems. Is that correct?
3) Put all the services on one machine and setup IP failover to fall back to the second machine as required. This removes the issue of two machines accessing the RAID array at the same time.
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This may help:
About IP Failover
First off, the IP Failover feature won't magically
configure the backup server to do what the primary
one was doing. In other words, with one server
configured for file services and the other for web
and email services, if the file server failed, the
other one wouldn't just start up file services by
itself!
IP Failover is best used where one server is
configured exactly as another. One server is used,
and the backup server is not used until the first one
fails. The backup server has a separate IP address
and network connection that it uses to periodically
poll the main server. If the main server leaves the
network, then the backup server enables a second
Ethernet interface which has been configured with the
main server's IP address. (You may be able to
multi-home one Ethernet connection, but I haven't
tried that. Plus, each of your Xserves has two
Ethernet ports, so that shouldn't be a problem.)
Yes, but you are not getting good value for money out of that solution.
Looking at the IP Failover it seems to work by having the secondary server monitor the primary. Once it fails it activates that address on the secondary and then enabling the required services on there. This doesn't seem to preclude each server being the master for the others secondary, as long as the services on each master are different.
Lets say mail runs on server 1 and AFP runs on server 2. Server 2 acts as the secondary for server 1 and has a script that activates mail on server 2 when it detects failure. Similarly if server 2 fails it will migrate the ip address server 1 and then startup the AFP service. Obviously each will have to be configured with matching services on each server.
Using the Xserve RAID
If you plan on storing all of your data on the Xserve
RAID, you need to know how "full" the RAID unit is
going to be and how many RAID volumes you wish to
create so that you can decide on how to connect it to
each server.
As we're migrating from an existing server to these we have a very good idea of what the sizes and volumes should be. We have a Xserve raid with four disks all on one side. Setup as a Raid 5 array that is suffient space for all our services. We can either partition that down into multiple volumes for each server/service.
What I don't have my mind around yet is how you control which server sees which volumes. We have to have each server be able to access each volume (so it can run that service in the event of failure) but I think it's going to be an issue to have two servers access the same volume at once. Is that correct? If two servers access the same volume at the same time it's going to cause trouble?
Think of the Xserve RAID as two
devices: each one has a fibre-channel port and holds
seven hard drives. Each "group of seven" can be
connected to any other device on the fibre-channel
network. Without a fibre-channel switch, you can
connect one or two other devices (one or two other
Xserves) to the Xserve RAID.
So you have these scenarios:
Using 1-7 drives and creating one large RAID volume:
you'll use one of two RAID controllers on your
Xserve RAID. You can connect the RAID to only one
Xserve or to a fibre-channel switch in order to
connect it to more devices.
Using 2-7 drives and creating two RAID volumes:
you'll use both RAID controllers (say, 3 on one side
and 3 on the other). Each RAID controller connects
to another fibre-channel device; thus, without a
switch, you can connect one to each server or both
to the same one.
Using 8 to 14 drives and creating one large RAID
volume: you'll be filling up one RAID controller and
all or part of the second, connecting both
fibre-channel connectors to the same Xserve, unless
you use a switch.
Using 8 to 14 drives and creating two RAID volumes:
You have the same options as with 2-7 drives.
See http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/deployment.html
for some pictures, which may help.
We have the fibre switch so each server can access all drives. I just don't know to limit what sees what, or if I need to do that.
Xsan
If you're just connecting the Xserve RAID to one or
two servers and planning to reshare the volume(s)
created on the Xserve RAID, then Xsan is not
necessary, nor should it be used.
But is it possible for two servers to use the same disk, I know it is with XSan but what about without it.
I think what you want is the ability to use the
Xserve RAID as a locally-connected volume on each
server, where share points can be defined. The
server is connected to the Xserve RAID using a
fibre-channel cable, just as a FireWire, USB, or
eSATA hard drive would be connected to the server.
As far as the server is concerned, the Xserve RAID
controller or controllers represent external hard
disks. The difference is that the Xserve RAID also
has Ethernet connectivity so that you can manage it
without having to log into your server. Once
connected, addressing using fibre-channel is
automatic; the Xserve RAID gets a WWPN address and
the RAID volume appears on the desktop of the server
- no Xsan required at all. From there, it's
perfectly safe to create share points and share them
via AFP or SMB; clients would connect using AFP or
SMB protocols with IP addressing over an Ethernet
network to which both the Xserve and the client
computers are connected. Even though the Xserve
RAID may also have an Ethernet connection to that
network, no read and write commands are sent via
Ethernet to the RAID; the server sends those via its
fibre-channel connection to the Xserve RAID as it
would with any other drive when housing share
points.
As I say it's fine for one machine at a time, what about 2.
For load balancing concerns, see Apple's File
Services Guide for recommendations. On an Xserve G5
with 2GB or more of memory, you should easily
accommodate 50 simultaneously connected users
(mixture of AFP and SMB) without a performance hit.
Depending on what your users are doing (and the
speed of the Ethernet network to which your clients
and Xserve are connected), you may be able to handle
more or less users. More RAM in the Xserve and a
Gigabit Ethernet network for the server and clients
would allow you to simultaneously balance more
clients with less of a reduction in performance.
Xsan works differently, and its requirements are
somewhat different. With Xsan, your Xserve RAID is
connected to a fibre-channel network. (In the
previous direct-to-server example, the fibre-channel
network consisted of just the Xserve and the Xserve
RAID.) In this network, all clients, at least one
Xserve, and the Xserve RAID are all connected via a
fibre-channel network. The Xserve has Xsan software
installed on it and becomes a dedicated metadata
controller. Clients must have special Xsan client
software installed for the SAN volumes to appear. In
such cases, the protocol used to mount the SAN
volumes is the Xsan client protocol, not AFP or SMB.
Although you technically can reshare an Xsan volume
via AFP or SMB, performance would take a hit. Since
the Xsan volume is writeable by all other clients on
the fibre-channel network, adding an Xserve to
reshare the SAN volume via AFP or SMB would allow
clients to connect via Ethernet (Wi-Fi, etc.), but
the server wouldn't have exclusive access to the SAN
volume.
To be honest, two Xserves and an Xserve RAID simply
aren't enough to warrant a SAN in my book. Typically
SANs are used where there are a large number of "done
servers" doing computation tasks, and they all need
to be able to have access to the same "local volume."
They're also used in cases where clients need access
to large amounts of storage set up to work like a
"local disk" on a few video production computers.
Just for comparison, Gigabit Ethernet offers
throughput bursts of up to 125MB/s (megabytes per
second), and Fibre Channel offers burst of up to
200MB/s. (Apple's 400MB/s claim only somewhat makes
sense if you're using both Xserve RAID controllers
connected to the same server.) Even so, both media
sustain around 50MB/s to 75MB/s, which is quite good.
In fact, that matches local disk performance. The
local serial ATA hard disks that are used in Power
Mac G5 models are serial ATA 1.5Gb/s (gigaBITS per
second) or 187.5MB/s at maximum bursts;I typically
see performance in the 40MB/s to 50MB/s range.
Just for fun, here are throughput speeds of several
common connectors, in megabytes per second:
Serial ATA "3.0": bursts up to 375MB/s, sustains
about 75MB/s
LVD SCSI 320: bursts up to 320MB/s, sustains about
100MB/s
Fibre Channel: bursts up to 200MB/s, sustains about
60MB/s
Serial ATA "1.5": bursts up to 187.5 MB/s, sustains
about 50MB/s
SCSI-3 LVD SCSI 160: bursts up to 160MB/s, sustains
about 60MB/s
Ultra ATA/133 (PATA): bursts up to 133MB/s, sustains
about 50MB/s
Gigabit Ethernet: bursts up to 125MB/s, sustains
about 50MB/s
FireWire 800: bursts up to 100MB/s, sustains about
50MB/s
ATA/66 (PATA): bursts up to 66MB/s, sustains about
40MB/s
USB 2.0: bursts up to 60MB/s, sustains about 30MB/s
FireWire 400: bursts up to 50MB/s, sustains about
20MB/s
10/100 "Fast" Ethernet: bursts up to 12.5MB/s
Judging by your request, I think the "no Xsan"
scenario is the one you want.
--Gerrit
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Taking a look at console shows the same messages over and over again:
5/3/13 11:49:30.314 PM ReportCrash[11888]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
5/3/13 11:49:30.314 PM ReportCrash[11888]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
5/3/13 11:49:30.314 PM ReportCrash[11888]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
5/3/13 11:49:30.314 PM ReportCrash[11888]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
5/3/13 11:49:30.314 PM ReportCrash[11888]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
5/3/13 11:49:30.314 PM ReportCrash[11888]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
5/3/13 11:49:30.314 PM ReportCrash[11888]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
5/3/13 11:49:30.314 PM ReportCrash[11888]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
5/3/13 11:49:30.314 PM ReportCrash[11888]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
5/3/13 11:49:30.314 PM ReportCrash[11888]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
5/3/13 11:49:30.328 PM com.apple.kextcache[11922]: Child process /usr/sbin/kextcache[11923] exited due to signal 6.
5/3/13 11:49:30.328 PM com.apple.kextcache[11922]: Error 107 rebuilding /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/kernelcache.
5/3/13 11:49:30.329 PM com.apple.kextd[11869]: kextcache error while updating / (error count: 10)
5/3/13 11:49:30.329 PM com.apple.kextd[11869]: async child pid 11922 exited with status 6
5/3/13 11:49:30.362 PM ReportCrash[11888]: Saved crash report for kextcache[11923] version 268.12 to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/kextcache_2013-05-03-234930_LaBonty.crash
I've tried literally everything I can think of... clearing caches, repairing disk permissions, rebuilding launch services, rebuilding spotlight, rebuilding the kext cache, running maintence scripts, etc. etc.... nothing has helped.

Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It’s unlikely to solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
The purpose of the test is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party software that loads automatically at startup or login, or by a peripheral device.
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards. Boot in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Post for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to boot and run than normal, and some things won’t work at all, including wireless networking on certain Macs. The next normal boot may also be somewhat slow.
The login screen appears even if you usually log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin. Test while in safe mode. You won't be able to mount network shares, but a flash drive should mount. Same problem? After testing, reboot as usual (i.e., not in safe mode) and verify that you still have the problem. Post the results of the test.

Very strange internet connection speed issue,

Good Evening all.
I have a strange issue. I got hooked up with a new ISP a few weeks ago and since that time I have had very slow PC connection speeds. I have done speed tests, and I get between 16 and 17mbps down, but the PC runs and acts like I am getting 4 to 5mbps. I have a Compaq Presario running Windows Vista Home Premium. Service Pack 2. There is 3 gig of ram and a 3ghz processor, with a 32 bit OS.
Here is how the setup looks. The netgear modem is plugged into a regular phone jack and then goes through a router and then it is hardwired to the PC. If I wire the PC direcly to the modem instead of going through the router, I get the same mbps no matter what. Between 16 and 17.
The wierd thing is that I can watch a movie on Netflix through my Wii with no issues. This is strange to me because I would figure there to be more issues with wireless connections rather than wired connections.
I have a netgear modem and a netgear router.
I am almost wondering if my PC is not processing the incoming speed correctly. I don't know if this is correct, because I used to have Xfinity internet before this new internet and had absolutely no problems. BTW my new ISP is called Edge Networks. The boast speeds up to 30mbps. I know that 16 to 17 is pretty good, I just do not know why It seems like I am not getting anywhere near that.
While on the subject, I also have another PC that I have gotten a USB adapter and am using wireless to access the internet. This PC gets 5 to 6mbps down. It is a Compaq running Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1. It has 3 gig ram and a 64 bit OS with a 2.3ghz processor.
I do not have a clue why I have such slow inernet page loading speeds, other than the possibility that my PC's are just severly outdated.
Can anyone help explain this issue?

Evadfa, welcome to the forum.
I suggest contacting your ISP for help with the problem. They should be able to help you since they know their product better than anyone. I don't believe that it is a computer problem, since it is happening on two separate computers.
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Slow file transfer to Azure File Service

File transfer to Azure File Service (Beta) is very slow. Is this something that will be solved, or is there a trick to this?
Sean

Yes. Pretty sure.
Based on MSDN Blogs > Microsoft Azure Storage Team Blog > Introducing Microsoft Azure File Service
Description
Azure Blobs
Azure Files
Durability
Options
LRS, ZRS, GRS (and RA-GRS for higher availability)
LRS, GRS
Accessibility
REST APIs
SMB 2.1 (standard file system APIs)
REST APIs
Connectivity
REST – Worldwide
SMB 2.1 - Within region
REST – Worldwide
Endpoints
http://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/myblob
\\myaccount.file.core.windows.net\myshare\myfile.txt http://myaccount.file.core.windows.net/myshare/myfile.txt
Directories
Flat namespace however prefix listing can simulate virtual directories
True directory objects
Case Sensitivity of Names
Case sensitive
Case insensitive, but case preserving
Capacity
Up to 500TB containers
5TB file shares
Throughput
Up to 60 MB/s per blob
Up to 60 MB/s per share
Object size
Up to 1 TB/blob
Up to 1 TB/file
Billed capacity
Based on bytes written
Based on file size
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We don't know what happened, but something went wrong. When I try to edit file is ok? - Excel Services Issue

Hi,
When I try to view Excel in browser I got error We don't know what happened, but something went wrong. When I try to edit file is ok?
I try to below thongs but still i have problem:
http://sureshpydi.blogspot.in/2013/05/sharepoint-2013-excel-services-we-dont.html
http://spbliss.blogspot.com/2014/07/we-dont-know-what-happened-but.html
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/37fd62ce-9278-491a-92ec-4f27f70c6df4/error-in-communicating-with-excel-calculation-services
I will very gratefull for help wtih this issue.
Rega

Hi,
Before re-creating I found once more error in ULS logs, maybe it help?
01/07/2015 10:14:56.22 w3wp.exe (0x27DC)
0x262C
Excel Services Application Web Front End
ai2u8 Critical
There was an error in communicating with Excel Calculation Services http://SERVER:32843/38ba6b16a9374cb7a0a44905b6986df3/ExcelService*.asmx exception: We don't know what happened, but something went wrong. [Session: (null) User: ].
9b5ddd9c-e6db-709f-391c-74bc9b8c087e
01/07/2015 10:14:56.22 w3wp.exe (0x27DC)
0x262C
SharePoint Server
Logging Correlation Data
xmnv Medium
Result=Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.CalculationServer.Proxy.ServerSession+RetryException: RetryException ---> Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.CalculationServer.Proxy.ServerSessionException: We don't know what happened, but something went wrong.
---> System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException: Error in deserializing body of reply message for operation 'OpenWorkbook'. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: There is an error in the XML document. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: Instance
validation error: 'InteractiveReportRoundtrip' is not a valid value for global::Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.Host.ExcelServerFeature. at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlCustomFormatter.ToEnum(String val, Hashtable vals, String typeName, Boolean
validate) at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssemb
9b5ddd9c-e6db-709f-391c-74bc9b8c087e
01/07/2015 10:14:56.22 w3wp.exe (0x27DC)
0x262C
Excel Services Application Web Front End
abrf Medium
ServerSession.HandleRetryException: Caught a retry exception from server http://SERVER:32843/38ba6b16a9374cb7a0a44905b6986df3/ExcelService*.asmx [id: ea4913c4-46fd-42dd-8cb4-d01b04ebc9e3]. EcsSessionId: RetryCount: 0, WebMethodName: OpenWorkbook,
HitWrongEcsRedirect: False, LastWrongVersionEx is null: True
9b5ddd9c-e6db-709f-391c-74bc9b8c087e
01/07/2015 10:14:56.22 w3wp.exe (0x27DC)
0x262C
Excel Services Application Web Front End
ajr3x Medium
ServerSession.HandleRetryException: Got a retry exception, but the server is not in a state where we're allowing failover. re.InnerException: Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.CalculationServer.Proxy.ServerSessionException: We don't know what happened, but
something went wrong. ---> System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException: Error in deserializing body of reply message for operation 'OpenWorkbook'. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: There is an error in the XML document. ---> System.InvalidOperationException:
Instance validation error: 'InteractiveReportRoundtrip' is not a valid value for global::Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.Host.ExcelServerFeature. at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlCustomFormatter.ToEnum(String val, Hashtable vals, String typeName,
Boolean validate) at Microsoft.Xm...
9b5ddd9c-e6db-709f-391c-74bc9b8c087e
01/07/2015 10:14:56.22* w3wp.exe (0x27DC)
0x262C
Excel Services Application Web Front End
ajr3x Medium
...l.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationReaderIExcelServiceSoap.Read10_ExcelServerFeature(String s) at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationReaderIExcelServiceSoap.Read17_OpenWorkbookOutParameters(Boolean
isNullable, Boolean checkType) at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationReaderIExcelServiceSoap.Read254_OpenWorkbookResponse() at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.ArrayOfObjectSerializer54.Deserialize(XmlSerializationReader
reader) at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.Deserialize(XmlReader xmlReader, String encodingStyle, XmlDeserializationEvents events) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.Deserialize(XmlReader
xmlReader, String encodingStyl... 9b5ddd9c-e6db-709f-391c-74bc9b8c087e
01/07/2015 10:14:56.22* w3wp.exe (0x27DC)
0x262C
Excel Services Application Web Front End
ajr3x Medium
...e, XmlDeserializationEvents events) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.XmlSerializerOperationFormatter.DeserializeBody(XmlDictionaryReader reader, MessageVersion version, XmlSerializer serializer, MessagePartDescription returnPart, MessagePartDescriptionCollection
bodyParts, Object[] parameters, Boolean isRequest) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- Server stack trace: at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.XmlSerializerOperationFormatter.DeserializeBody(XmlDictionaryReader
reader, MessageVersion version, XmlSerializer serializer, MessagePartDescription returnPart, MessagePartDescriptionCollection bodyParts, Object[] parameters, Boolean isRequest) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.XmlSerializerOperationFormatter.DeserializeBody(XmlDictionaryReader
reader, MessageVersio... 9b5ddd9c-e6db-709f-391c-74bc9b8c087e
01/07/2015 10:14:56.22* w3wp.exe (0x27DC)
0x262C
Excel Services Application Web Front End
ajr3x Medium
...n version, String action, MessageDescription messageDescription, Object[] parameters, Boolean isRequest) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.OperationFormatter.DeserializeBodyContents(Message message, Object[] parameters, Boolean isRequest)
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.OperationFormatter.DeserializeReply(Message message, Object[] parameters) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ProxyOperationRuntime.AfterReply(ProxyRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.HandleReply(ProxyOperationRuntime
operation, ProxyRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.Call(String action, Boolean oneway, ProxyOperationRuntime operation, Object[] ins, Object[] outs, TimeSpan timeout) at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannelProxy.InvokeService(IMethodCall...
9b5ddd9c-e6db-709f-391c-74bc9b8c087e
01/07/2015 10:14:56.22* w3wp.exe (0x27DC)
0x262C
Excel Services Application Web Front End
ajr3x Medium
...Message methodCall, ProxyOperationRuntime operation) at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannelProxy.Invoke(IMessage message) Exception rethrown at [0]: at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage
reqMsg, IMessage retMsg) at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type) at Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.CalculationServer.Proxy.IExcelServiceSoap.OpenWorkbook(CommandParameter parameter,
OpenWorkbookInParameters inParameters, String& workbookId, OpenWorkbookOutFlags& outFlags, OpenWorkbookOutParameters& outParameters) at Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.CalculationServer.Proxy.ServerSession.<>c__DisplayClass2.<>c__DisplayClass4.<OpenWorkbook>b__1(IExcelServiceSoap
excelService) at Microsoft.O...
9b5ddd9c-e6db-709f-391c-74bc9b8c087e
01/07/2015 10:14:56.22* w3wp.exe (0x27DC)
0x262C
Excel Services Application Web Front End
ajr3x Medium
...ffice.Excel.Server.CalculationServer.Proxy.ServerSession.WithExcelService(Func`2 method) at Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.CalculationServer.Proxy.ServerSession.<>c__DisplayClass2.<OpenWorkbook>b__0(CommandParameter parameterDelegate)
at Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.CalculationServer.Proxy.ServerSession.<>c__DisplayClass1d9.<ExecuteWithSecurityContext>b__1d8() at Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.CalculationServer.Proxy.ServerSession.ExecuteWithSecurityContext(Boolean
forceRevert, CoreWebMethod coreWebMethod, CommandParameter parameter) at Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.CalculationServer.Proxy.ServerSession.ExecuteWebMethodCore(WebMethodType webMethodType, WebMethodBehaviorAttribute webMethodBehavior, CommandParameter
parameter, CoreWebMethod coreWebMethod) --- End of inner ...
9b5ddd9c-e6db-709f-391c-74bc9b8c087e
01/07/2015 10:14:56.22* w3wp.exe (0x27DC)
0x262C
Excel Services Application Web Front End
ajr3x Medium
...exception stack trace --- 9b5ddd9c-e6db-709f-391c-74bc9b8c087e
01/07/2015 10:14:56.22 w3wp.exe (0x27DC)
0x262C
Excel Services Application Browser
aeh11 Medium
EwaState.OpenWorkbookAndUpdateState: errors occurred while trying to open the workbook, [MessageId: InternalError, MessageIdHash: -1100324317]
9b5ddd9c-e6db-709f-391c-74bc9b8c087e
01/07/2015 10:14:56.22 w3wp.exe (0x27DC)
0x262C
Excel Services Application Excel Calculation Services
gwv1 Medium
MossHostFileLoader.GetCloseUri: parent folder/list url = /sites/Raporty for file = File.xlsx
9b5ddd9c-e6db-709f-391c-74bc9b8c087e
01/07/2015 10:14:56.22 w3wp.exe (0x27DC)
0x262C
Excel Services Application Browser
3k9g Medium
ExcelWebRendererInternal.RenderControl: Finished rendering internal EWR
9b5ddd9c-e6db-709f-391c-74bc9b8c087e

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