DOSEMU 1.4.0.1 - lredir causes hang

DOSEMU 1.4.0.1 - lredir causes hang

[Martin Jewell]

Hi,



Firstly, I'd like to say thanks for an excellent DOS emulator and I hope it doesn't sound like I am complaining about it..!



I am having a problem with DOSEMU and, for my own sanity, it would be good to get an idea of what is going on.



I am running Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) with DOSEMU 1.4.0.1. I have been using this config for several months with no problems at all but then, without any reason I can work out, the lredir function seemed to cause a hang when any file path that used a redirected drive was accessed. I uninstalled DOSEMU, tried to put in an older version (but apt-get wouldn't put 1.2.2 back in) and then reinstalled 1.4.0.1. After about three attempts at that,  the lredir problem seemed to go away in 1.4.0.1 (an application I am running was able to "see" a file on a  redirected drive without hanging the DOSEMU session). But then, without warning and without any change to the system that I know about (apart from installing WinXP into a VM under VirtualBox), the same app that was working OK now causes a hang when I 
 try to access the same file as before.



What can I do to try to capture some kind of trace that will show why the files on a path that is on a redirected drive causes a hang?



Any help would be appreciated - thanks!



Regards,



Martin Jewell.





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Re: DOSEMU 1.4.0.1 - lredir causes hang

[Frank Cox]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 21:10:25 +0000 (GMT)
Martin Jewell <martjewell@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I am running Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) with DOSEMU 1.4.0.1. I have been using this config for several months with no problems at all but then, without any reason I can work out, the lredir function seemed to cause a hang when any file path that used a redirected drive was accessed.

Some folks have been having trouble with the repository-installed version of
OpenOffice that you can get with Ubuntu, and their problem apparently goes away
if they install the "official version" from the openoffice.org website.

I wonder if you are having a similar problem.  Have you tried compiling and
installing the "official" version from the dosemu.org website?

I get the impression that the Ubuntu folks are "fixing" stuff that goes into
their repositories...

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