On 01/08/2013 15:15, Phil Holmes wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Honore" > <robert.hon...@gmail.com> > To: "Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net> > Cc: <lilypond-user@gnu.org> > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 7:25 PM > Subject: Re: anyone got lilypond 2.16.2 to work on Windows Vista? > > >> On 01/08/2013 13:33, Phil Holmes wrote: >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert" <robert.hon...@gmail.com> >>> To: <lilypond-user@gnu.org> >>> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 6:05 PM >>> Subject: anyone got lilypond 2.16.2 to work on Windows Vista? >>> >>> >>>> I have Windows Vista Version 6.0.6002 Service Pack 2 Build 6002. >>>> >>>> I installed Lilypond 2.16.2 and I have since been unable to get >>>> Lilypond to >>>> run successfully. Whenever I start Lilypond, the executable appears >>>> to start >>>> up, but does not apparently make any progress. It just sits there >>>> after >>>> having done one single write I/O request. It appears to be doing >>>> nothing, but >>>> if I leave it running, the system, including the GUI freezes, and the >>>> only way >>>> to get the system back is to kill all power to the system. Is there >>>> some >>>> incompatibility that wasn't apparent back in the 2.12.* days? >>>> >>>> I am using a HP Presario F700 with 1 GB of installed memory. >>>> Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-55, 1800 Mhz, 2 >>>> Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s) >>>> >>>> >>>> What am I doing wrong this time? >>> >>> >>> Simple and accurate answer - I haven't, because I've not tried. I do >>> have 2.16.0 running and 14 2.17.x versions running, all on 64 bit >>> Vista. How exactly are you trying to run it? >>> >>> -- >>> Phil Holmes >> >> I was just trying to do the basic post-install of running lilypond by >> itself for the first time, when I noticed that the executable starts, >> but seems to go no further. None of the stuff I had seen previously >> from lilypond 2.10.x or 2.12.x. It would just sit there making no >> apparent progress, after having written about 2.5 MB of data to disk. >> >> Robert Honoré. > > > Sorry - I don't understand what you're saying at all. How are you > trying to run it? What's this 2.5 Megs? What's "post-install"? What > does "goes no further" mean? > > -- > Phil Holmes
Let me try to say this better. I tried the following means of invoking lilypond: * double-clicking on the lilypond icon; * double-clicking on a *.ly file; * invoking the "engrave" function in the front-end user-interface called Frescobaldi. Even if I try to double-click on the lilypond icon right now, the result I get is that the lilypond executable appears to start, and then it seems to just sit there. Then I would use the task manager to see if the executable ran at all, and I would find (on the "Processes" tab) that indeed it is running. When I look at the the columns for I/O reads, I/O writes, I/O read bytes, and I/O write bytes, I see that it did one I/O write, with about 2.5 MB of data written. That is what I lazily referred to by "2.5 MB". If I invoke lilypond by the other two methods, I get the same result. What I meant by "post-install": I had installed lilypond 2.16.2 just the day before, but did not attempt to use it until today. To install 2.16.2, I uninstalled the previous version that I had working. Thinking that the new installation of lilypond has some kind of initial housekeeping to do, I leave it alone for a while. When I return to check what might have happened, I observe that even the task manager interface now seems to be sluggish; I observe that lilypond hasn't done any additional I/O. I don't notice anything unusual about CPU activity or memory usage associated with lilypond's process, and I don't see anything that indicates to me that lilypond has any unusual commitment of system resources, but the longer you let the lilypond executable run, the more unresponsive the system appears to become. Until the system becomes so unresponsive as to require a power-cycle to regain control of the system. This happens even if I have only lilypond as the only user application running. The only evidence of I/O activity I observed outside of the content of the task manager "Processes" view tab, was the presence of a directory in my home directory called ".lilypond-fonts.cache-2", which seems to be created as a result of invoking lilypond. In particular, lilypond does not appear to process my *.ly file, even if to just display an error message. Yours sincerely, Robert Honoré. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
