More info on lockup during startup

More info on lockup during startup

[James B. Hiller]

Adding to my post of about an hour ago:

xdosemu -D+a -o emu

to collect some (MB) of debug output, sometimes it actually starts fine.
The times it doesn't, I get a whole lot of debug output that's appearing
to be simple repetition of interrupt handling (sometimes 10, sometimes
others), and, along with the fact that I never get a DOS prompt, makes
me think something is looping infinitely.  But other times, even when
I get no further in the window, the output has some breaks in the
repetition.

Also, it may be worth noting that I'm running XFree86 4.4.0.  And I've
noticed that the fc-cache command that my slackware-based init scripts
run now seg faults the first time it runs, but doesn't when I then
execute it manually.  Don't know if this has anything to do with xdosemu
and how it deals with fonts, but maybe.

Thoughts?

thx,
jbh

Re: More info on lockup during startup

[Bart Oldeman]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, James B. Hiller wrote:

> Also, it may be worth noting that I'm running XFree86 4.4.0.  And I've
> noticed that the fc-cache command that my slackware-based init scripts
> run now seg faults the first time it runs, but doesn't when I then
> execute it manually.  Don't know if this has anything to do with xdosemu
> and how it deals with fonts, but maybe.
>
> Thoughts?

try
    [Options]
    Logo=0
    BootGUI=0

in your msdos.sys file to avoid Windows showing the logo and trying to
boot the GUI.

Bart

Re: More info on lockup during startup

[James B. Hiller]

> > Also, it may be worth noting that I'm running XFree86 4.4.0.  And I've
> > noticed that the fc-cache command that my slackware-based init scripts
> > run now seg faults the first time it runs, but doesn't when I then
> > execute it manually.  Don't know if this has anything to do with xdosemu
> > and how it deals with fonts, but maybe.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> 
> try
>     [Options]
>     Logo=0
>     BootGUI=0
> 
> in your msdos.sys file to avoid Windows showing the logo and trying to
> boot the GUI.

Thx.  Did that.  Got rid of the Win95 splash showing, but startup of
xdosemu still succeeds only randomly.

Any other tips/tricks/techniques, either for identifying the issue or
fixing it?  I'm not doing anything snazzy now with autoexec.bat or config.sys,
or with dosemu.conf.

thx,
jbh

Re: More info on lockup during startup

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

James B. Hiller wrote:
> Any other tips/tricks/techniques, either for identifying the issue or
Trace it with dosdebug a little to
see what it actually does when locked
up.

Re: More info on lockup during startup

[Claudia Neumann]

Hi James,

Am Dienstag, 30. März 2004 00:08 schrieb James B. Hiller:
> Any other tips/tricks/techniques, either for identifying the issue or
> fixing it?  I'm not doing anything snazzy now with autoexec.bat or
> config.sys, or with dosemu.conf.

Look at the Log-Files under /home/user/.dosemu/boot.log for hints. There are a 
couple of debug options. Look at the docs. 

Have you got a /home/user/.dosemurc installed. This will override the options 
in /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf.

cu

Claudia
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