Permanent "Server Busy" in "Open with..." dialog when selecting alternative appication to open file from Repo-browser

[reav...@gmail.com]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Repo-browser and enter some repository URL
2. Navigate to some place that contains some file (text file for simplicity)
3. Right click on the file, choose "Open with"
4. System file dialog will open. Immediately afterwards in this file dialog another modal dialog window is opened with the following Title:
"Server Busy" and text:
"The action cannot be completed because the other program is busy. Choose "Switch To" to activate the busy program and correct the problem".
There are three buttons offered in this modal dialog:
"Switch To.." and "Retry" which do nothing and "Cancel" which is grayed out.
To close this Open dialog (along with another modal "Server busy" it's necessary to close Repo-browser.

Happens here with Windows 10, using latest TortoiseSVN-1.11.1 (64bit).
Network conditions are good, and there are no network drives or mounts that could be inaccessible from Windows Explorer (and thus Open dialog that starts in default Windows Explorer location).

regards
MM

[Stefan]

The message "server busy" refers to a out-of-process COM-object that does not return properly when initialized.

Seems you have some tool/plugin installed that causes this.

[reav...@gmail.com]

It indeed happens also with TortoiseGit.
Except... as opposed to TortoiseSvn, File dialog created by Repo browser in TortoiseGit is not modal, so when this problematic message box is created, it does not get displayed permanently over repo browser's File dialog, preventing any file selection (or closing File dialog for that matter). Perhaps TortoiseSvn could follow suit, as a workaround. I noticed "server busy" (but on other, unrelated occasions) was reported a couple of times on this mailing list.

You mentioned that monit is caused by some tool/plugin. Could you elaborate? Plugin of what application for instance? Like Windows Explorer's plugin/shell extension? (surely I have TortoiseGit, TortoiseSvn, Git, kdiff3, 7zip, some corpo-enforced Antivirus software..)

[Stefan]

You mentioned that monit is caused by some tool/plugin. Could you elaborate? Plugin of what application for instance? Like Windows Explorer's plugin/shell extension? (surely I have TortoiseGit, TortoiseSvn, Git, kdiff3, 7zip, some corpo-enforced Antivirus software..)

Yes, a shell extension. But which one I do not know.