hellerst@husc8.HARVARD.EDU (Joe Hellerstein) (04/20/88)
I had a strange crash happen last night that I have been unable to reproduce. In an effort to prevent it happening again, without removing all the goodies from my system, I'm looking for some advice. On a MacPlus, I was running MacWrite 4.5, with System 4.2. I had Finder 6.0 installed, as well as the following INIT's: Macsbug 5.4 Backdrop 2.16 (with two files in a "Screens" folder) ShutDownSound INIT (as posted on the net recently: "I'll be back") MenuClock 3.0 Pyro 1.0 Suitcase 1.0 VirusWarningInit (as posted on the net recently) and various INIT's for MacPascal V. 2.1 (not including PShell) Here's what happened: As MacWrite was up (editing a ~3 page document), I left for a little while, so Pyro kicked in. When I moved the mouse to get the screen back, the machine went into Macsbug. Unfortunately, I didn't have the presence of mind to write down what Macsbug told me. Hitting the tilde key showed that the MacWrite window had returned, but the text hadn't appeared yet. As I said, I have been unable to reproduce this crash. With an identical system folder, Pyro kicked in and then returned just fine. Any clues? Do I need to delete all the INIT's from my System folder to insure my safety, or is there a specific one that I could safely assume was the culprit? I'd hate to lose all my data in the middle of writing a term paper or a program, but I do get a kick out of all the fluff I have loaded in. Thanks in advance. Joe Hellerstein
hellerst@husc8.HARVARD.EDU (Joe Hellerstein) (04/20/88)
A note: when I posted my first inquiry I forgot to point out that when the Mac slipped into Macsbug, "ES" didn't work either. I had to reboot (I'm no macsbug expert, nor an 68000 expert, and didn't see any other solutions.) JH