Monday, November 27, 2017

Windbg Useless Mex Rule "Issue 9912"

SCENARIO

If you are using Windbg to view a crash dump and you are using the mex extension, then you might recieved the following when running the known issue checker (!kic):

0: kd> !kic
[Rule 9912] Found issue from rule 9912!
[Rule 9912] Additional Data
[Rule 9912]  ---------------------
[Rule 9912] mex has no win32k export
[Rule 9912]
[Rule 9912]  ---------------------
[Rule 9912]
Stats:
Rules Ran: 92 Success: 76 Failed: 0 Skipped: 16
Number of Issues Found: 1
Total Number of Rules: 189
Scan Ended:  11/16/2017 10:52:50 AM (00:10:19.0159146)

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Install and Configure Windbg


In this post, I'll show you how to get, install, and configure windbg so that you can debug and or review dump files.

What you will need:
1. Debugging Tools: click here
2. Mex Extension: click here
3. Microsoft Symbols Server Info: click here