mol-bk won't build under Debian-woody

Samuel Rydh mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:02:38 +0200


On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:02:35PM +0200, Samuel Rydh wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:23:32PM +0100, Brian Ruth wrote:
> > >
> > > > It now compiles OK, but OS9 still locks up after ~ 2 minutes with this
> > > > messages repeating on the console unitl I kill mol (Ctrl-C isn't enough):
> > > > Warning: unsynchronized timebase detected
> > >
> > > I get the same problem on my RS/6000....
> > 
> > Actually, no, I was wrong. It doesn't actually lock up, but it DOES stop
> > responding to the mouse - the MacOS still runs, and accepts keyboard input,
> > but moving the mouse makes no difference to the pointer, which doesn't move.
> > This is accompanied by that 'timebase' message on the console.
> > 
> The warning (which I recently added in order to debug this
> problem btw.) means that MOL thinks the timebase suddenly
> moved backwards. This should never occur, in particular not
> on non-SMP systems.
> 
> The experienced "lockup" is caused by certain periodic timers
> (like video refresh) beeing set far in the future (an offset
> which should always be positive turns out to be negative). This
> behaviour is to be expected if the timebase really moved
> backwards; I doubt this is the case here though. I'll investigate...

OK... I found the bug, it should work now.

/Samuel