For a couple of weeks now, the Windows Reliability Monitor on my machine has been listing many Sublime Text critical events. The summary with each event is “stopped working.” I haven’t noticed Sublime stop working, though. I can provide the technical data that is included with the event, if that would help. Note: I haven’t actually noticed Sublime Text stop working in any way. So, I’m not sure what it means by “stopped working.”
Thanks!
it could be useful to share the technical data that is included with the event. Maybe it’s just the indexer or something, which is why nothing visually stops working?
Here’s the information you requested. I randomly picked a few alerts and they all appear to have the same information.
Description
Faulting Application Path: C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: sublime_text.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.1
Application Timestamp: 5d928ecf
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 10.0.18362.815
Fault Module Timestamp: b29ecf52
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000000000003b810
OS Version: 10.0.18363.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 6859
Additional Information 2: 68592c7504498c5a4a820e8da203bdbb
Additional Information 3: 14e8
Additional Information 4: 14e84ca7e85a97ae989d6c2782d7ebd0
Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: b9f7f46d9d9a748e5429aa8ad94fc8c0 (1452879868131788992)
Update: I uninstalled Sublime and reinstalled it. (I renamed the Sublime folder in the Program Files folder to ensure a fresh install.) I continued to receive the errors. I also attempted to run a standalone version of the app and that had the same errors.
I’m also beginning to see “plugin_host.ex” “stopped working” messages.
Source
plugin_host.exe
Summary
Stopped working
Date
6/4/2020 10:09 AM
Status
Report sent
Description
Faulting Application Path: C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\plugin_host.exe
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: plugin_host.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 5d928e2e
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 10.0.18362.815
Fault Module Timestamp: b29ecf52
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000000000003b810
OS Version: 10.0.18363.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: aa06
Additional Information 2: aa061a1a93e4aff53ee468fc732a36a9
Additional Information 3: d87d
Additional Information 4: d87d4a75e64f91247aa3a70eb01ca2d9
Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 1112a73db4eed9beb4465b3e927edab1 (1460955453432191665)
Another note: I renamed the C:\Users<USER>\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\ directory so that Sublime would create a new one when I started it. Sublime did create a new one but the same messages appeared in the reliability monitor.
are you using any anti-virus software? maybe it is responsible for killing the plugin host?
@kingkeith I do thave anti-virus software. It doesn’t appear to be killing the plugin host.
which build of ST are you using? is there a core dump in the C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3 folder which might contain more details about the crash?
Version 3.2.2, Build 3211
I don’t see any core dump files. I actually never saw ST stop working, even though it reported that it did in Windows Reliability Monitor.
Do the time stamps of the events coincide with you quitting Sublime or putting your machine into Sleep mode or something similar?
@OdatNurd, not that I have noticed. Your question did trigger an idea, though: does this happen when I open a project. Yes! Every time I open a project, two “stopped working” events appear in my Reliability History. Thoughts?
The notion of “Stopped Working” sounds to me something similar to how occasionally when a Windows app is busy and you try to interact with it, you see the window caption briefly have (not responding) added to it.
If that’s the case, it might be some sort of semi-false positive where the monitor is picking up on that. Except for accessing files from a remote file share that takes some time to connect, I’ve never seen Sublime do anything like that. Does it do it for every project? Are they large projects or projects that contain large files?
Something like this sounds distinct from the plugin host app crash event you published above, though. That could be an errant plugin doing something untoward and crashing the plugin host.
My first thought was the same as @kingkeith above though; a virus checker or some other sort of security software interfering with/killing the process, possibly because of what it sees as unusual activity/memory use/etc.
@OdatNurd and @kingkeith, thanks for your help. I haven’t found anything specific and I never notice the app “stop working,” so I will just consider it a “semi-false positive.” 
Take care!
I have this exact same problem. I don’t think it’s a false positive. I also run AV (VMware Carbon Black), but it isn’t blocking the application. I also have already tried a full reinstall and deleting appdata content but the issue remains. Sublime is the only app I use that crashes, sucks seeing the errors in reliability history lol
Description
Faulting Application Path: C:\Program Files\Sublime Text\sublime_text.exe
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: sublime_text.exe
Application Version: 4.1.0.7
Application Timestamp: 60a5f8ca
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 10.0.19041.1023
Fault Module Timestamp: 7977b9de
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000000000002a9c0
OS Version: 10.0.19043.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 3b30
Additional Information 2: 3b30bb73cb7aa3a483be65aaf32297ae
Additional Information 3: 1548
Additional Information 4: 1548c82eed4c5536e84b0a8b247bef0b
Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 51a637c3c8b496f2dd63e200f6726d2b (2117784743556836651)
Description
Faulting Application Path: C:\Program Files\Sublime Text\plugin_host-3.3.exe
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: plugin_host-3.3.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 60a5f7e6
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 10.0.19041.1023
Fault Module Timestamp: 7977b9de
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000000000002a9c0
OS Version: 10.0.19043.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 5d46
Additional Information 2: 5d46005244cc96704787aeb002b55270
Additional Information 3: c785
Additional Information 4: c78528fdba17d16c9994569f89522b98
Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 06dbb3f2da4eca1b772de2f2ce05a7f2 (1670240569290762226)
Description
Faulting Application Path: C:\Program Files\Sublime Text\plugin_host-3.8.exe
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: plugin_host-3.8.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 60a5f7e4
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 10.0.19041.1023
Fault Module Timestamp: 7977b9de
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000000000002a9c0
OS Version: 10.0.19043.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 52b9
Additional Information 2: 52b9ee2ef514a4f46bedbbf12daa929c
Additional Information 3: 5a53
Additional Information 4: 5a5348ff64522c03c788ba9604bd4bd0
Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 65cfcb993a5f548e6a326f31450a7edf (1887693451224055519)
I should also add that these errors occur immediately after opening ST every time (sometimes the st executable doesn’t crash but both plugin executables do every time)