Had the 0x35 BSOD before changing DfsIRPStackSize, haven't had one since,
but I have had 0x7e BSOD before and after that change.

Had the 0x7e BSOD before and after protecting the encrypted container folder
from AV RT scans.

Now I've disabled all AV RT scans and if it crashes again, I plan to pull
off AVG altogether.

 

From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:00 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003?

 

My condolences.  Were I in your shoes, I'd pull AVG off the server for a few
days.  Also, can you actually replicate the problem if you revert to the
original DfsIRPStackSize  for MUP?  You can then test whether or not it
really is an AVG/Truecrypt problem.



 

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Carl Houseman <c.house...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes and nothing will change that.  The data must remain reasonably secure if
the server is stolen.

 

From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003?

 

Is the physical security of the server so poor that you're using encryption
to protect the data at rest?

That's about the only situation I can see using encryption on a server which
then shares that data.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Carl Houseman <c.house...@gmail.com> wrote:

Recently set up some encrypted storage on an SBS 2003 server using
Truecrypt, just a simple encrypted container, no encryption of system drive.
The server is also running AVG 9 but the Truecrypt container folder has been
excluded from RT scanning.  Two folders on the encrypted volume have been
shared to the network for access by XP client machines.  I've done this on a
Server 2003 without incident, but that server wasn't running any AV.

 

Since Truecrypt was set up there have been 4 BSOD's, 3 of them were
x1000007e (SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) but one 0x00000035
(NO_MORE_IRP_STACK_LOCATIONS), all referencing srv.sys.   All of the BSODs
coincide with clients accessing the share(s) on the encrypted volume.  It
could be reading or writing   For the case of the 0x35, I increased the
DfsIRPStackSize for MUP.sys even though the BSOD wasn't complaining about
MUP.sys.  Can't tell yet if that helped or not (there's only been one BSOD
since, it was today's 7e).

 

So, I'm hoping somebody else has heard of this, but not that hopeful since
Google hasn't heard of it.  I know I can open an incident at Truecrypt.org.

 

Meanwhile, I'm probably going to scrap Truecrypt and try FreeOTFE and hope
that makes a difference.  Since both are open source, can I reasonably hope
they are using different code that might be related to these crashes?

 

Or if you have a preferred alternative for a (a) free means of (b)
encrypting a subset of server storage so that storage is (c) available to
network client users (d) without them thinking about it or having to type
anything (other than entering the decryption password one time after each
server restart), and that encryption (e) doesn't need or recommend the use
of complex recovery mechanisms, and (f) know about or have a set-up tutorial
for said encryption that is (g) faster to work through than setting up
FreeOTFE, I'm all ears.

 

[The (a) ... (g) in the above paragraph are required conditions for an
alternative to overtake FreeOTFE as the next attempt at making this work...
I'm open to all suggestions, but I have limited time with which to solve
this and FreeOTFE looks like the least trouble to try.]

 

TIA

Carl

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