Publish symbols fails with Encountered Win32 error '203' from method 'SymEnumSourceFiles'.

[PeterKristiansen]

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Environment

• Azure DevOps Pipelines

  • A private project

• Private agent

  • Host machine is running Windows Server 2019 Standard

  • Agent version 2.206.1

Issue Description

We see that the Index sources and publish symbols - v2 task, started ending in warning back in May with this:
##[warning]Library dbghelp.dll is already loaded from an unexpected path. Expected 'G:\T\a3\w\_tasks\PublishSymbols_0675668a-7bba-4ccb-901d-5ad6554ca653\2.203.0\dbghelp.dll'. Actual 'G:\T\a3\w\_tasks\PublishSymbols_0675668a-7bba-4ccb-901d-5ad6554ca653\2.203.0\dbghelp.dll'. ##[error]Encountered Win32 error '203' from method 'SymEnumSourceFiles'.
On the surface at least it looks like this issue - though we are only experiencing it now #13491.

The server is running McAfee as the virusscanner. We have verified that exempting the agent folders from virus scan had no effect on this issue. However disabling McAfee completely on the server made the issue go away.

As far as Windows updates the Servicing Stack 10.0.17763.2744 was rolled on in the period between last success and first failure.

We are unable to roll back the update and McAfee is the corporate wide chosen virus scanner on servers.

The Azure DevOps agent on its own does not appear to be the culprit. Back when the issue was detected we were running 2.200.2 - but 2.200.2 was also the agent used for the last succesful job.

Task logs

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Please find the log attached as 13.zip

Troubleshooting

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Error logs

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13.zip

[isctays]

i have the same issue with no luck, we tried the task v1 and v2, same result.

we excluded the agent folders in mcafee. we gave agent user permissions with full control, but same issue.

Windows Server 2019 Datacenter
KB5022286
Agent Version: vsts-agent-win-x64-2.214.1

we have another Windows Server 2016, and it works there. but not over the windows 2019.

due to company policy i cannot disable the AV entirely, i will request to disable it just for testing porposes to see if that makes it work.

[isctays]

we disabled all security related to the AV, and it works now!

dont know what the AV is doing, but in the debug mode, i could see that besides the agent folders, the process internally uses the network service user, and part of the indexing of the symbols, there is a file being writen to the users app data temp folder:

C:\windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Local\Temp

which is not accesible without administrator permissions. so, i will give it a try to exclude this path on the AV and see how it behaves.

so far, i think this temp file should be created under the agent worker folder, to avoid any possible system access issue or blocking.

[jonathanpepinmoore]

I turned off Windows Defender in group policy and it still doesn't work any help? On Windows 10 Enterprise 2019 LTSC How do I use a Build Controller in Azure Devops Server 2019 since XAML Build Definitions have been deprecated? I know it was a bug in a update also I know there is the conflicting PDB extension with Protein Files I wish they would go back to the SYM file extension.

the setting is managed by your administrator I'll try this.

PublishSymbolsV2: Encountered Win32 error '203' from method SymEnumSourceFiles You might want to run this powershell helper on a clean environment.

I tried to lower the UAC to never still does not work I tried running the powershell script and get errors I don't like the powershell it is too complex I dont support the USA's anti monopoly policy is was just System Management Server if corporations would play fair.

[jonathanpepinmoore]

I got the symbols to publish after downgrading to TFS 2018 and SQL Server 2017 Enterprise it partially published the nuget packages. The LifeCycle for TFS 2018 is 2028 and longer that Azure Devops 2019.

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[Shahyads]

I have the same issue. As a workaround you can go to the task folder on the agent machine then open the file DbghelpFunctions.ps1 then for each DllImport attribute in the Add-Type statement , add the full path to the "dbghelp.dll"

For example
"E:\\agent1\\_work\\_tasks\\PublishSymbols_0675668a-7bba-4ccb-901d-5ad6554ca653\\2.234.0\\dbghelp.dll"

See the pull request #21171