On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:43:18 +0100, Torsten Anders <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 22 Apr 2009, at 13:47, David Bremner wrote: >> Benjamin L. Russell wrote: >>> That sounds great; until then, however, because of my previously >>> posted Mozart/Oz startup bug, "Process Oz Emulator exited abnormally >>> with code 5," regarding which nobody has posted a follow-up yet, I'm >>> pretty much dead in the water, with no way of even starting up >>> Mozart/Oz 1.4.0. >> >> It is a rather radical solution, but you could install some flavour of >> Linux on a spare partition/virtual machine. > >Actually, Benjamin reported that his installation did work before. It >now stopped working and he would like to understand why. I don't know >either, though. Anyway, I had a second look at your error message >(see below, reported at http://gforge.info.ucl.ac.be/tracker/ >index.php?func=detail&aid=203&group_id=17&atid=149). Are you trying >to start the Mozart with ozengine.exe? Try oz.exe instead (ozengine >is used for running existing Oz applications). >$ oz.exe Oz tries to open in a new Emacs window, but then an error dialog box prompting to send an error report to Microsoft appears, and in Emacs, the following error message appears: >Process Oz Emulator exited abnormally with code 5 >BTW: no wonder the >following results in an error if there is no functor foo defined > > > ozengine.exe foo That's what I thought, too; strangely, this was exactly what Mozart developer Yves Jaradin suggested in his followup to an earlier bug report on an identical problem by another user, Karsten Martin (see http://gforge.info.ucl.ac.be/tracker/?func=detail&aid=193&group_id=17&atid=149): >Date: 2008-08-11 13:10 >Sender: Yves Jaradin > >Could you try to run the following command in a command windows >(aka DOS shell): > >cd "c:\Program Files\Mozart\bin" (or wherever >you installed Mozart) >ozengine.exe >ozengine.exe foo > >The last two commands are supposed to output some error messages >that could help diagnose the problem. > >Yves Jaradin -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^ _________________________________________________________________________________ mozart-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.mozart-oz.org/mailman/listinfo/mozart-users
