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Netlabs EPMD Startup Freeze
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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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