Subject: Re: signal 15, menu problems, instability
From: Ove Edlund (ove.edlund@sm.luth.se)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2001 - 01:27:04 MDT
Hi!
I would just like to confirm that I witness the same kind of behaviour on a
7600/132, no processor upgrade, System 8.6. The problems started to appear
with kernel 2.4 and have been there as long as mol has been working on that
kernel series. In my experience MacOS version does not matter, and
ROM-version (including old world ROM) does not matter.
I would like to add that if this happens on my computer, I can click a
window from another application with mouse button 2 or 3 (I have one click
each of those before they also get stuck) to make the problem go away for a
while. Alternatively, I can press Control-alt-escape, to kill the
application, and confirm with mouse button 2 or 3.
I still find mol very useful, and I usually can run mol for about half an
hour in console mode before anything bad happens. Thing get better when I
lower the amount of memory assigned to mol, and start mol from a console.
It is even better if KDE is not running while I am using mol.
Best wishes
Ove
Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
:
>Kernel is 2.4.9-bk, and mol is 0.9.61, rsynced on Oct 8. Box is 9500
>with Powerlogix G3. MacOS is 8.6. One of the ongoing symptoms since
>way before that date and version of kernel and mol is that the mouse
>will go into some sort of funny "mouse down" mode. IOW, I can't
>select anything with a click, but if I move the mouse over any finder
>menu, it will drop down, and the individual items will highlight if I
>move the mouse over them, but they cannot be selected. The clock
>continues to run, and the Mac volumes can be mounted over the network
>via Appletalk and files copied to and fro just fine. Coincident with
>this behavior is that the box goes deaf to TCP/IP, although it can be
>pinged fine, which I guess is more due to Linux running.
>
>In an attempt to find a solution to this, which can happen from 5 min
>to 5 hours to 5 days after starting mol (IOW, at any time), I have
>tried going to mol without X (before, I always ran mol in a slow
>video window in X). So I dumped that in favor of full-screen mode.
>The situation is now -much- worse.
:
>Any thoughts? I've been marching through the 2.4 series looking for
>relief without any. Should I upgrade again to the latest? I also
>regularly rsync mol hoping against hope, but...
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Ove Edlund PhoneNr: +46 920 91511
Department of Mathematics E-mail: ove.edlund@sm.luth.se
Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
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