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Since Update to VS2022 17.12.3 I have many error C2471: cannot update program database
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Gérald Fauvelle
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Hi,
Since I've update all my build agents with Visual Studio 2022 to version 17.12.3 (instead of 17.11.4) I see a lot of my build to fail with the same error
149>C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.22621.0\um\ObjectArray.h(338,1): error C2471: cannot update program database |'D:\TC\work\daily\prod.dev-dev\build\msvc22-x64\A2iAAPIGUI\A2iARCGUI\A2iARCGUI.dir\Release\vc143.pdb|'|r|n
149>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Professional\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.42.34433\atlmfc\include\afx.inl(1,1): error C2471: cannot update program database |'D:\TC\work\daily\prod.dev-dev\build\msvc22-x64\A2iAAPIGUI\A2iARCGUI\A2iARCGUI.dir\Release\vc143.pdb|'|r|n
149>C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.22621.0\shared\ifdef.h(1,1): error C2471: cannot update program database |'D:\TC\work\daily\prod.dev-dev\build\msvc22-x64\A2iAAPIGUI\A2iARCGUI\A2iARCGUI.dir\Release\vc143.pdb|'|r|n
149>C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\corecrt_math.h(1,1): error C2471: cannot update program database |'D:\TC\work\daily\prod.dev-dev\build\msvc22-x64\A2iAAPIGUI\A2iARCGUI\A2iARCGUI.dir\Release\vc143.pdb|'|r|n
Sometimes relaunching the build helps, sometimes I need to do a full rebuild. This is happening either with a fresh sources clone and a build from scratch or an incremental build.
I'm launching the build in command line, either with msbuild or devenv, and it leads to the same errors.
This is random, I didn't find a cause of this issue.
Is there a known regression in VS2022 17.12.3 ?
Is there something I can do to avoid this error?
Thanks,
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Minxin Yu 12,356 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor2025-01-08T03:19:24.9+00:00 From Compiler Error C2471:
The compiler cannot write to the database file.
To fix the problem
- Make sure that the disk has enough available space.
- Make sure that the file is not read-only.
- Make sure that there are no sharing violations.
The error occurs if pdb file is locked.
What are the build agents you are referring to? -
Gérald Fauvelle 0 Reputation points
2025-01-08T07:59:10.31+00:00 I know all this, but as I said, even from a clean build, so no pdb files exist, it is failing. I'm building using all cores (32) so maybe some synchronization issue in msbuild?
By build agents, I mean TeamCity build agents, that I use for my CI.
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Minxin Yu 12,356 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2025-01-08T08:22:21.14+00:00 Could you provide build steps and minimal reproducible sample project?
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Gérald Fauvelle 0 Reputation points
2025-01-08T12:28:25.6633333+00:00 Not really, the code repository is heavy, several millions lines of code, and the error appears randomly, and I cannot share the sources.
Are there some compilation settings that are more likely to cause this issue? Can I activate some logs that would give more info on why this error happens?
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Minxin Yu 12,356 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2025-01-09T01:15:39.2933333+00:00 -
Gérald Fauvelle 0 Reputation points
2025-01-09T07:26:39.2633333+00:00 Thanks, very interesting links, I'll have a look.
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RLWA32 46,386 Reputation points2025-01-09T09:11:55.6033333+00:00 You might also get some useful diagnostic information by running Process Monitor while building to capture events related to the pdb files.
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