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FME daemon shutting down / FME Form crashing / FeatureWriter crashing

  • July 21, 2026
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jonathan_vru
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 Good Evening! I have a problem i would like to share with this amazing community and i hope ill get an answer that solves it. 

I am writing data to an Microsoft Excel file. I use the feature writer to dynamically write 3 datasets to Excel. The normal Microsoft Excel writer does this without a problem. 

Now i want to do it with an Feature Writer set to Microsoft Excel, but when i run the feature writer with, i believe, the same settings as the Excel writer, it results in a fatal error, where it states FME daemon is shutting down. 

Can anyone help me? That would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Error log Translation
Other settings are default.
Interesting here: number 164. I dont know why of what.

 

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jonathan_vru
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  • July 21, 2026

Some more info for reference: 

 


itsmatt
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  • July 22, 2026

This one looks like a bug to me - the kind’s of ERRORS you’re seeing there are not intended for a user. If it was me I would submit something via Safe Support which they can use to reproduce the issue. 

The divisible by 2 error though and the fact you’re using a schema feature to define the schema could suggest that it’s related to the schema. Total wild guess, however, if you’re doing anything to the schema feature at all you might want to take a look to see if something is getting dropped somewhere. 

Are you able to play round with the settings at all to narrow down the crash?

 


desiree_at_safe
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Hi ​@jonathan_vru! ​@itsmatt  is right. 

If you can please submit a ticket so that our team can look into this further, that would be great!

When submitting your ticket, please provide the following (if available):

- Details about the environment used (e.g. platform and OS version, FME Flow deployment, any other dependencies, etc.)
- Any relevant log files (e.g. translation logs, job logs, fmeserver.log, etc.)
- Any relevant screenshots (e.g. errors, configurations, etc.)
- Please provide a sample of the source data used in your workspace
- The workspace (or sample workspace) that you are encountering issues with. Please be sure to include any required data or custom transformers needed. If, possible please send this as a template (.fmwt).