jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw) (12/22/88)
Hey net!
With the arrival of LSP2.0, I've recently switched from running Unifinder to
Multifinder (I had 4MB in my machine crying "Oh, fill me with your precious
code! Let me bear your data!"...). While on the whole it's great and I can't
live with out it, etc. etc., I'm having problems with far more frequent
unrecoverable system crashes than before. I recognize that lots of pre-MF
apps are liable to do this to me, and that testing my own buggy projects is
likely to trash things unaccountably, but what I'd like to know is whether
the 'crash behaviour' I'm seeing on my Mac is 'proper' for these circumstances
and what sort of steps I should take to minimize it.
Crash behaviour: I rarely see the System Bomb box, and rarely the complete
wigouts where your screen fills with garbage and your speaker starts cursing
high-freq static. Instead, I lose the cursor and the ability to register
mouseclicks. (The mac's crashed, I can tell because the menu-clock stops
blinking.) If I hit the interrupt switch, where before a "SM 0 A9F4/G 0":
would let me do an exitToShell, I get no effect (i. e. I stay in the
monitor or return to crashed state). Likewise, if I've got Macsbug (5.4)
in, ExitToShell and ExitToApp do nothing but perpetuate the crash. I haven't
found a way to load TMON with EUA (the only configuration which is worth
much) except by booting uniFinder, loading TMON, and then switching to MF,
which is (a) too cumbersome to do every time I reboot and (b) doesn't help
much (TMON's relaunch finder, launch finder, and unmount/reboot only work
about 25% of the time under MF). So, finally, I power down in a crashed state,
which takes several minutes to reboot from because the disk wasn't shut down.
So, what do I do? What do you developers out there use to recover from
crashes under MF? Sometimes my interrupt switch doesn't seem to work at
all. Surely I'm doing something wrong.
6.0.2 System, Finder, and Multfinder. Loads of INITs (but not Suitcase I,
which seems to compound my problems).
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I spend about 5% of my time rebooting..
Merry X, H, and NY's, all of you.
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