Trying to get a GP service to run in 10.8 that was running in 10.6... spawning new thread from this in order to chase this in a different direction and for better visibility.
Originally I had only this to go by:
"Instance of Service Crashed.... Containing Process has Crashed"
Now I am also seeing the following in the Windows event log:
Faulting application name: ArcSOC.exe, version: 12.6.0.24234, time stamp: 0x5ee81bca
Faulting module name: MappingCore.dll, version: 12.6.0.24241, time stamp: 0x5f8883dd
I noticed that my original 10.6 GP service was using arcpy.mp which is Pro/3.x. The 10.8 service, however, would run 2.7 although published from Pro. Did 10.6 do more behind the scenes here when publishing? I don't remember changing any ArcGIS Server settings to make this run, yet sys.path had all the correct environmental info in it. That was missing in 10.8.
So I used the steps here to make this run in 3.x conda environment. But the service still crashes... it starts but never finishes.
What could cause an error like this? Is it related to the arcpy.mp/arcpy.mapping compatibility?