Today we came across some sudden errors in our web-based apps.
System.IndexOutOfRangeException (Index was outside the bounds of the array)
with a stack trace of:
at System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridView.LoadControlState(Object savedState) at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadControlStateInternal(Object savedStateObj) at System.Web.UI.Page.LoadAllState() at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)
The stack trace makes it appear to be server-related rather than application-related. That indeed turned out to be the case.
Cause - some of the servers in the web farm had a .Net service pack update, and the other ones didn't.
The viewstate was getting all wrapped around the axle when going from an updated server to a non-updated one, and/or vice-versa.
Solution - Ensured all servers in the farm had the same .Net framework service pack.
If you're seeing this error (with a similar stack trace) chances are your server cluster suffers from the same problem.
Monday, February 02, 2009
System.IndexOutOfRangeException On LoadControlState Event
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1 comments:
Thank you so much for this post! Our clients kept having these inexplicable out of range errors and we could not figure out the cause, but then I stumbled across your post and we made the service pack deployments the same across all of the servers in our cluster. Problem solved!
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