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christech:
Seem to have an issue with Netlabs EPMD 1.24. It installs fine but after rebooting it hangs after launching. If I Control-ESC I get a non responsive message and then it finally loads and subsequent launches are fine. Any idea how to troubleshoot this? V1.0 seems to be fine. Will test out 1.23 also. The whole system is froze until I Control-ESC.

Martin Iturbide:
Hi christech.

I installed ​nepmd124_eng.wpi on a ArcaOS 5.0.7 VM. I used NEPDM without issues, I had rebooted and used it too without any issues.

I was not able to reproduce your issue.

Are you doing something specific on NEPDM when it get non responsive?
Do you have any other software that behaves similar (non responsive) on your machine?

On "Help-NEPDM runtime information" it gives some information about the components, maybe you can check if something is different on your side.

--- Code: ---
          netlabs.org EPM Distribution - Runtime Information
    Copyright (c) netlabs.org EPM Distribution Project 2002 - 2022
                     http://trac.netlabs.org/nepmd
      Copyright (c) IBM Corporation 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996

Versions
--------
     Editor version: 6.03b
     Macros version: 6.03b
      NEPMD version: 1.24 - This is the latest version (checked on 2022-12-05 08:24:13)
   NEPMDLIB version: 1.24

NEPMD dynamic configuration
---------------------------
  Installation directory: C:\Programs\NEPMD
          User directory: C:\Programs\NEPMD\myepm
       Loader executable: C:\OS2\EPM.EXE
   Loaded EPM executable: C:\OS2\APPS\EPM.EXE

       Selected language: eng
     Initialization file: C:\Programs\NEPMD\myepm\bin\nepmd.ini
            Message file: C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\bin\nepmdeng.tmf
   Main environment file: C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\bin\EPM.env
   Add. environment file: (not found)

EPM runtime modules
-------------------
    EPM.EXE           2022-12-05 08:20:18  C:\OS2\APPS 
    ETKE603.DLL       2022-12-05 08:20:20  C:\PROGRAMS\NEPMD\MYEPM\DLL 
    ETKR603.DLL       2001-09-14 16:19:56  C:\OS2\APPS\DLL 
    ETKC603.DLL       2001-09-14 16:06:44  C:\OS2\APPS\DLL 
    ETKUCMS.DLL       2001-09-14 16:09:30  C:\OS2\APPS\DLL 
    EPMMRI.DLL        2001-09-14 16:06:24  C:\OS2\APPS\DLL  (official build, some time after 1996/04/12 17:16:58)

NEPMD runtime modules
---------------------
    EPM.EXE           2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\OS2 
    NEPMDLIB.DLL      2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\PROGRAMS\NEPMD\NETLABS\DLL 
 0  epm.ex            2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
 1  nepmdlib.ex       2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
 2  file.ex           2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
 3  filelist.ex       2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
 4  stdctrl.ex        2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
 5  modeexec.ex       2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
 6  tools.ex          2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
 7  mouse.ex          2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
 8  menu.ex           2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
 9  newmenu.ex        2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
10  prefspopup.ex     2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
11  keys.ex           2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
12  stdkeys.ex        2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
13  locate.ex         2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
14  recompile.ex      2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
15  assist.ex         2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
16  bookmark.ex       2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
17  popup.ex          2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
18  epmshell.ex       2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
19  dict.ex           2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
20  encoding.ex       2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
21  subinclude.ex     2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 
22  cuakeys.ex        2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\ex 

NEPMD tools    For details, see: C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\tools\tools.txt
-----------    (Place the cursor within the filename above and press Alt+1)
    md5sum.exe        2019-12-09 14:06:56  C:\usr\bin 
    lxLite.exe        2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\tools 
    UNLOCK.EXE        2010-12-21 05:39:22  C:\OS2 
    grep.exe          2020-05-24 08:14:14  C:\usr\bin 
    diff.exe          (not found)   
    wget.exe          2020-01-14 10:09:26  C:\usr\bin 
    unzip.exe         2020-06-12 13:17:30  C:\usr\bin 
    uconv.exe         (not found)   
    recode.exe        (not found)   
    kdiff3.exe        (not found)   
    gfc.exe           (not found)   
    oslexam.dll       2022-04-02 10:30:00  C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\tools 
    WPTOOLS.DLL       2021-07-25 01:09:38  C:\sys\dll 

--- End code ---

Regards

Andreas Schnellbacher:
I would close all EPMs and then rename NEPMD.INI first. 'Runtime information' displays the path to it. It's in %NEPMD_USERDIR%\bin. Corrupted ini files may occur on exhausted system resources. A reboot is required then.

Note that since version 1.23 up to 10 daily generations of NEPMD.INI backups are created in %TMP%\nepmd\backup\ini. If you had 1.23 or 1.24 successfully installed before, that is something to try on corruption for to restore your settings. (It has happened here a few times.)

Andreas Schnellbacher:
Another problem:

Martin, thanks for the 'Runtime Information' report. I've spotted that the old IBM file is still the first in PATH on ArcaOS 5.0.7. That won't work for unlocking etke603.dll, which is required for to edit it for highlighting color changes from EPM.

I've just added that to my list of bugs. (The path in your case is myepm\dll, which shows that it was successfully patched on installation. The installation calls postwpi.exe, postwpi2.cmd and then colors.erx directly.)

BTW: I don't know why ArcaOS 5.0.7 doesn't ship with Veit's version of unlock.exe, which works for both. Wasn't that already installed with a later eCS?

Martin Iturbide:
Hi Andreas

Sorry, but I didn't get it right, which should be the correct epm.exe?


--- Code: ---[C:\]dir epm.exe /s

The volume label in drive C is ARCAOS.
The Volume Serial Number is 6CE8:A5BF.

Directory of C:\OS2

 4-02-22 10:30a        47,172     26 a---  epm.exe
        1 file(s)      47,172 bytes used

Directory of C:\OS2\APPS

12-05-22  8:20a        20,908      0 a---  EPM.EXE
        1 file(s)      20,908 bytes used

Directory of C:\Programs\NEPMD\netlabs\bin

 4-02-22 10:30a        47,172      0 a---  epm.exe
        1 file(s)      47,172 bytes used
Total files listed:
        3 file(s)       115,252 bytes used
                    398,389,248 bytes free

--- End code ---

There are some differences between "12-05-22  8:20a  / 20,908" and "4-02-22 10:30a /47,172" but I'm not sure what is the difference in functionality.

Regards

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