michael@stb.UUCP (03/18/87)
I seem to have a problem moving workbench icons around; it sometimes locks up. Not task held, lock up. Configuration: 2meg fast, 2meg vdisk (1/2 full) Kick version 180, work ver 47 (33.xx) It always occurs when moving a disk icon, never a file icon. As a second question, why does my system want to re-verify my workbench disk AFTER it has loaded? It seems to occur when I do a loadwb -debug in my startup-sequence. Any clues? -- : Michael Gersten ihnp4!hermix!ucla-an!remsit!stb!michael : sdcrdcf!trwrb!ucla-an!remsit!stb!michael : Sealed with a curse \ As sharp as a knife : Doomed is your sole \ And dammed is your wife.
wagner@utgpu.UUCP (03/23/87)
In article <1526@stb.UUCP> michael@stb.UUCP (Michael) writes: > >As a second question, why does my system want to re-verify my workbench >disk AFTER it has loaded? It seems to occur when I do a loadwb -debug >in my startup-sequence. Any clues? Happens to me every time. And I just do a plain LOADWB. No debug. Started with the release version of 1.2 Never used to happen on whatever Beta release I had for a while there. As you can imagine, it really slows down boots. >-- >: Michael Gersten Michael Wagner
hobie@sq.UUCP (03/24/87)
What does `loadwb -debug' do for you? I've never heard of it before.
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> In article <1526@stb.UUCP> michael@stb.UUCP (Michael) writes: > >As a second question, why does my system want to re-verify my workbench > >disk AFTER it has loaded? It seems to occur when I do a loadwb -debug > >in my startup-sequence. Any clues? This happened to me when the disk got full. It worked after I deleted a file that had used up the last free block on the disk. I imagine everyone's favourite Workbench is pretty full by now... John
michael@stb.UUCP (03/28/87)
Actually, I found the answer myself. Just before the loadwb, I am doing date ? date echo > :t/t The loadwb apparently does something similar to diskchange, on all the disks it can find (my guess: so it can get "disk mounted" messages back to see which icons to put up). A simple sleep 2 (or rather, wait 2) before the loadwb fixes that. -- : Michael Gersten ihnp4!hermix!ucla-an!remsit!stb!michael : sdcrdcf!trwrb!scgvaxd!stb!michael : The above is the result of being educated at a school that discriminates : against roosters.
carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (04/03/87)
In article <1987Mar24.131921.11957@sq.uucp> hobie@sq.UUCP (Hobie Orris) writes: > > What does `loadwb -debug' do for you? I've never heard of it before. Loadwb -debug adds a fourth untitled menu to the workbench backdrop. Under 1.2, this menu contains "Debug" (throws you into RomWack) and "Flushlibs" (flushes all disk-resident devices/libraries/fonts which are hanging around in ram but are not currently opened). The Flushlibs is handy for checking if a program which uses disk-resident libs/devs/fonts is really deallocating everything it should. After the Flushlibs, all memory should be returned. All Flushlibs does is a too-big AllocMem which fails. Any memory request which can't be satisfied causes AllocMem to kick out any devs/libs/fonts that are hanging around, hopefully freeing up enough ram to satisfy the request. Flushlibs is also handy for forcing a disk resident device/lib/font to be freshly loaded from disk. (For instance - If you are writing a printer driver and want your new version to be loaded in for testing). 1.1 Workbench's Debug menu contained some additional selections for kprintf'ing various system lists out the serial port. The additional selections were removed to make room for 1.2 OS enhancements. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Carolyn Scheppner -- CBM >>Amiga Technical Support<< UUCP ...{allegra,caip,ihnp4,seismo}!cbmvax!carolyn PHONE 215-431-9180 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=