Hi. > I downloaded the latest CVS yesterday to see how well Clipper handles > protected mode, and found that the record locking problem still exists: > On a very large application, when it goes to lock a record for editing, > the application hangs. On another test program with the exact same > locking mechanism, it works perfectly. [snip]
I'm seeing something peculiar going on that I've not had happen before, and it may be related, or not. First, this appears to be totally unrelated to the various behaviors I reported before - trying to boot straight from a DOS partition, and that failing, probably due to a very large root directory; and then weird stuff going on where a .dbf seemed to be getting corrupted, and then after a few days, it was all magically ok. Since then, I have completely stripped out autoexec-invoked redirection to the DOS partition via linux, and now have just an hdimage-based startup that has always (since like 0.68.1) worked just fine. The problem I'm now having is that xdosemu seems to rarely start successfully. I invoke it, and I get: Linux DOS emulator 1.2.1.0 $Date: 2004/03/06$ Last configured at Sun Mar 14 11:49:18 EST 2004 on linux This is work in progress. Please test against a recent version before reporting bugs and problems. Submit Bug Reports, Patches & New Code to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or via the SourceForge tracking system at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/dosemu DPMI-Server Version 0.9 installed Starting Windows 95... And then it hangs (this isn't really trying to start Win95 - this is just the DOS that I have had around). Prior to version 1.2.X, it would always start fine - after this line, I would get a quick blast of the Win95 splash, and then a DOS prompt. Once in a very great while, I get it now, but rarely. Usually it hangs, and the CPU is consumed until I kill it. If I try to start just regular dosemu (from an xterm still), I get: Note that DOS needs 25 lines. You might want to enlarge your window before continuing. Now type ENTER to start DOSEMU or <Ctrl>C to cancel Linux DOS emulator 1.2.1.0 $Date: 2004/03/06$ Last configured at Sun Mar 14 11:49:18 EST 2004 on linux This is work in progress. Please test against a recent version before reporting bugs and problems. Submit Bug Reports, Patches & New Code to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or via the SourceForge tracking system at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/dosemu DPMI-Server Version 0.9 installed Starting Windows 95... [dosemu EMS 4.0 driver installed] "Welcome to dosemu 1.2.1!" C:\> and all is good. When I did get xdosemu up last, a couple nights ago, I had my own little dbase/clipper app running (which has always been just fine), and the thing hung while sitting on a view that it had been on for well over an hour. I had been away from the machine, come back, and it was ice. So my point is: a. I'm having startup hang problems that I never seemed to have before about 1.2.0, for xdosemu. b. The problem may in some way be related to Mr Steiger's problem - he may just be getting into his app and it's happening, but I'm not getting that far. c. I too would benefit from any advice on good debug toggles to use to at least get me through troubleshooting the startup and getting that stable. I don't think I'm doing anything wrong on my side, since I'm using the DOS I've been using ever since I put Win95 on my machine, and it has always worked fine; and I got rid of the lredirs that had been evidently causing problems previously, as well as the attempt to boot directly from the DOS partition. And since regular dosemu seems to work fine, the matter seems to be something that only affects xdosemu's startup. Thanks! jbh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
