We're having an issue where every other day the system state fails. We use a 3rd party piece of software that uses WSB for the system state. We get the following in the eevnt logs:
Faulting application name: wbengine.exe, version: 6.1.7601.17514, time stamp: 0x4ce79951
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.18229, time stamp: 0x51fb164a
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000055384
Faulting process id: 0x3560
Faulting application start time: 0x01d01197a2bdc7a1
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\system32\wbengine.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: d6f0610d-7d8f-11e4-a8f7-5cf3fc557333
and the following when running vssadmin list writers:
Writer name: 'Task Scheduler Writer'
Writer Id: {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
Writer Instance Id: {1bddd48e-5052-49db-9b07-b96f96727e6b}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'VSS Metadata Store Writer'
Writer Id: {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
Writer Instance Id: {088e7a7d-09a8-4cc6-a609-ad90e75ddc93}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Performance Counters Writer'
Writer Id: {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
Writer Instance Id: {f0086dda-9efc-47c5-8eb6-a944c3d09381}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
Writer Instance Id: {7655da00-923b-441b-bc40-d64e3d44aaa9}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'System Writer'
Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
Writer Instance Id: {0e9c9681-5e67-4748-900c-b32ff7ebd072}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'FRS Writer'
Writer Id: {d76f5a28-3092-4589-ba48-2958fb88ce29}
Writer Instance Id: {3e4d034d-b955-428e-952b-0581f8e05203}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
Writer Instance Id: {3ee8ab83-468c-4cfe-8613-6946976820fb}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'FSRM Writer'
Writer Id: {12ce4370-5bb7-4c58-a76a-e5d5097e3674}
Writer Instance Id: {2975a331-2068-4a6e-a16f-4635f5ce2856}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
Writer Instance Id: {43188986-6573-45a8-b871-4be3d189a45f}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
Writer Instance Id: {a9632f02-31e3-424c-8c87-69395dbf04e2}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'IIS Config Writer'
Writer Id: {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}
Writer Instance Id: {180f4d03-93aa-4947-b874-c2d0d7546ca0}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
Writer Instance Id: {231ceb2e-3b8c-40f1-8d02-22a4f263802d}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'TS Gateway Writer'
Writer Id: {368753ec-572e-4fc7-b4b9-ccd9bdc624cb}
Writer Instance Id: {60237974-e116-454e-b29c-6ffeffd1bd9d}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
Writer Instance Id: {440c5208-9d3a-4c84-884c-f9a3d8ad2c1e}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'NPS VSS Writer'
Writer Id: {35e81631-13e1-48db-97fc-d5bc721bb18a}
Writer Instance Id: {d6ae39a4-2c8b-4e48-9f79-12247b9fac5b}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Dhcp Jet Writer'
Writer Id: {be9ac81e-3619-421f-920f-4c6fea9e93ad}
Writer Instance Id: {c616d312-5e21-47df-9e59-100cf6ac6f0e}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
Writer Instance Id: {8f945f3b-d50b-47b8-9085-1416d0b094e1}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
Writer Instance Id: {50c005a1-35e8-4bc1-a0c1-1bcdc9351322}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'MSSearch Service Writer'
Writer Id: {cd3f2362-8bef-46c7-9181-d62844cdc0b2}
Writer Instance Id: {2bcebf65-9243-4ccd-bae2-6ae12efd9a51}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Certificate Authority'
Writer Id: {6f5b15b5-da24-4d88-b737-63063e3a1f86}
Writer Instance Id: {4101713c-f207-431f-be52-1171f1227c0b}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'NTDS'
Writer Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
Writer Instance Id: {aa053355-2571-4e37-ba1d-501127ab2846}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Microsoft Exchange Writer'
Writer Id: {76fe1ac4-15f7-4bcd-987e-8e1acb462fb7}
Writer Instance Id: {7645b18a-8aa4-49d3-abd1-5d7debd4b3f3}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
as i said - this happens every other day, the 3rd party software provider say this is a microsoft issue but this doesnt happen when running a system state directly from WSB