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Applications / Re: VirtualBox problems
« on: April 04, 2018, 10:23:22 pm »
Dave,
What file system do you use on the other hard drive for the disk images?

...HPFS386...

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Applications / Re: VirtualBox problems
« on: April 04, 2018, 10:22:40 pm »
Mark,

I use a handly little utility called 'shmemmon' to show me the size of available shared memory. I took a quick look on Hobbes for this, but did not find it. I've attached to the post for your use, or if you reluctant to run this search for the shmemmon.zip out there.

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Hi David,

One of the things that has seemed to help me is that I lowered the default cached size from 350 MB to 100 MB.  It doesn't seem to bog down (slow down) as much after the change. 

Does ArcaOS with the mutiprocessor kernal still have that single input que (correct me with I have stated it wrong)?  In the past, this was attributed to a large amount of the lockups.

I am using HPFS386 here with a 64MB cache, what IFS are you using?

Re: SIQ, yes, that is the standard model on the OS/2 platform and re-working this, say along the lines of what MS put into NT for example, would require a significant effort that I believe can not be accomplished without having the source code available.

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Applications / Re: VirtualBox problems
« on: April 03, 2018, 04:46:34 am »
Hi Mark!

...I will try what you suggested above. After migrating to libcx 0.6.2-1 I have not had a successful start of either VM, but that may be because of the current configuration...

The key here is to include the 'SET LIBCX_HIGHMEM=2' in either your CONFIG.SYS or in the vbox.cmd file (like the one I attached to my previous post) which you use to start virtualbox with. That will allow you to run vbox with the new experimental libcx. If you do not have the variable set it is a known fact that virtualbox will not run, at least that's with the standard OS2 or AOS kernels, the result may be different with OS4 kernels.

...I was curious about one other thing.

Is VirtualBox and your VM's installed on the same partition?...

Here is the configuration I have:

1) 'G:\' is my boot drive
2) VBox is installed on G:\
3) virtual machine definitions are stored on G:\, but in a different directly as defined by 'SET VBOX_USER_HOME=G:\HOME\VirtualBox'
4) the VM disk images are stored on another HD (and another parittion), idea there being to avoid disk contention if the main boot drive is being accessed by the program while at the same time the vm is trying to access it's virtual disk (basically a poor man's HD load-balancing if you will, same idea as yours)

I will give the version Valery is talking about a try next as that appears to be a slightly upgraded (newer) version, so if I'm going to experiment why not work with the one that is being actively worked on?

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Internet / Firefox crash recovery fails to re-populate some tabs???
« on: April 02, 2018, 04:16:31 am »
OK, weird situation here, only because rarely, if ever, has this actually failed in the past. A couple of days ago I had a hard lock on my machine, only power off/on worked...subsequently if I kill Firefox (which I usually do if the sessions start running slow or I need to re-boot for some reason and I do not feel like properly shutting it downly only to have to re-start each tab afterwards, etc, etc) I now have firefox populating the tabs on the 1st and last browser window instantiations only...any browser windows in-between get tabs on them, but the tabs remain BLANK!

Sooo....my re-start no longer works, or to be more correct, only works in a limitted way.

I researched this, went through the clean-up of the session, restore, files...no go, it cleans up fine, but the very next time I happen to have to kill FF and re-start it, the problem comes right back. I even tried out the 'Session Master' add-on, great functionality, but it still did not help, so this leads me to believe the root cause lies somewhere deeper in the FF.

I have not pegged it yet to a certainly number of tabs and/or windows, however, the 1st and last windows always seems to hold true.

....yeah, weird...has anyone seen this before???

BTW: this is with the 45.9 pentium4 release and latest versions of libcx & pthread. I did backlevel them to the standard release, but that had no effect. FF xul.dll is set to standard load, so no highmem for code or data (tried with both scenarios, but that made no difference)....

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Web applications / Re: Chrome...
« on: April 02, 2018, 04:05:52 am »
Oh yeah, that is great work...awesome functionality to have actually...a pile of stuff I have on the Win7 box that I would love to be able to simply run on my OS/2 desktop.

What do you need from us as far as help & support goes? Is this what the FreeRDP funding request is about?

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Web applications / PSI IM client problems anyone?
« on: March 31, 2018, 05:58:32 pm »
I've been using the QT PSI IM client for quite some time now. It's pretty stable, works well, some fancy bells here and there, overall, no reason to move to something else.

Alright...so just the other day I was attempting to send my brother a quick msg...however, as soon as I type the 2nd character in the msg window PSI crashes...as in, gone, finito...no popuplog.os2 entry, no trap...nuthin'....ugh?

Has anyone seen this behaviour before?

I can not peg this issue to any changes on my system. The stuff I had most recently done (such as the install of libcx and pthread from the netlabs-exp repo) I actually un-did so I could rule them out. Indeed, going back to the previous versions had no effect on PSI, still crashing.

Before I log a ticket I wanted to check with the forum...I have to believe it is something that has changed on my machine that I am simply overlooking...grrh...pesky pesky....I will keep on digging around but if you've seen this please let me know.

Thanks!

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Applications / Re: VirtualBox problems
« on: March 31, 2018, 04:51:10 am »
Hey Mark,

...What was "the use" refered to that you found in CONFIG.SYS, related to the other versions you had installed, out of curiosity?

I am using the standard Arca Noae package manager RPM versions, currently installed for 5.0.1 (libcx 0.6.0-1). Where did you get the libcx 0.6.1-2.oc00 version?

If I have a link, I will download and see if it solves the problem here for the 2018, v5.0.51 of VirtualBox as well, as the previous posts on this thread also seem to relate to LIBCX in some way, shape or form.

Ahh..."the use" was simply reflecting the fact that I am using the 'VBOX_USER_HOME' variable to point to the VBox home, and previously with different versions I had them based in the program directory instead of the system 'HOME' location. Sorry, I think that caused some confusion...I've attached my CONFIG.SYS so you can take a look at it. Hopefully it'll help you out answering the question regarding the location of the driver as well.

The key to making my install work was to point to the corrent driver...I was not using the matching release and that was enough here to cause exactly the same problem you are seeing.

Regarding libcx...I did move to the test release, you can get it from the netlabs-exp repo, again, take a look at the attached file, needs to go into \etc\yum\repos.d directory, but read-up on it since I'm not sure how much you know about the YUM/RPM setups. The general concensus is that it is NOT advisable to install the stuff from non-release repos, so YMMV!

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libcx specifics...OK, so if you pick the latest netlabs-exp version you will need to run vBox with the 'SET LIBCX_HIGHMEM=2' in either your CONFIG.SYS or if you put it in something like vbox.cmd (see attached) file it will only affect vbox app instead of everything on your system that uses libcx. Here is a link (https://github.com/bitwiseworks/libcx) to the github for libcx that explains this well (look towards the bottom of the page => https://github.com/bitwiseworks/libcx#notes-on-c-heap-displacement)

I am curious if vBox could be re-build to make use of the modified version of libcx to avoid having to do this...far too complex for me to understand though...LOL

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Applications / Re: VirtualBox problems
« on: March 29, 2018, 11:20:25 pm »
Well, my issue turned out to be somewhat trivial actually.

I have four versions of VBox installed:

1) Paul's release from 2008
2) 2008 release from dmik (1.5.51_OSE_27858)
3) 2016 release (5.0.6_OSE r140)
3) 2018 release from osfree.org

I had updated my CONFIG.SYS to clean-up the use and re-configure from using Paul's version to 2016 release, but inadvertently left my CONFIG.SYS driver pointing to the newer 2018 release.

Once this was corrected I was now able to start my VM using the 2016 release of the software. I have not tried the 2018 release yet. Oh, another thing worth noting: I was using the older 0.6.0 of libcx but just the other day I moved up to the experimental version which is 0.6.1-2.oc00 (because I want to look at some Firefox issues).

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Applications / Re: VirtualBox problems
« on: March 29, 2018, 05:27:42 am »
Hi Mark,

...Both VM's are recognized by VirtualBox, but when I attempt to boot them, more times than not I get a message "Unknown error 1018 - during initialization of the runtime" (JPG attached). The detail screen comes up with a message that "The Virtual Machine WindowsXP has terminated unexpectedly during start-up with an exit code 1 (0x1) in Component "MachineWrap" (JPG attached)...

Similar situation here, in fact, the very same error.

So far I have tried to play around with various VM settings, such as the I/O Apic, AMD-V and so forth. So far, no luck. I am still erroring out...will try a build of a brand new VM next.

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Internet / Re: Firefox and Traps
« on: March 26, 2018, 02:58:05 am »
What happens when you run: 'firefox.exe -safe-mode'?

This will attempt to disable all add-ons (in case there is a problem there) and just brings up the default FF config.

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Setup & Installation / Re: SYS 1201 error during boot.
« on: March 23, 2018, 08:43:50 pm »
Hi Roderick,

If you boot your OS/2 system with many of the larger driver such as ACPI.PSD, Uniaud, SNAP and a few JFS drivers.
Always, always set the setting earlymeminit=true. If do you do not you have 16 MB of RAM to load all drivers.
Note that this switch does not work that well with HPFS386.IFS.
The issue is that when the system runs out memory it can simply crash during startup somewhere.

Hmm, I currently have VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT=2560 in place, but the EARLYMEMINIT=TRUE setting you suggest always prevents me from being able to run HPFS386 my machine. Maybe it is a combination of drivers which I use, all the ones you mentioned above with the exception of JFS...when I tried it (a long time ago) alongside HPFS386 I actually managed to corrupt my HPFS386 partitions...that was the ONLY and LAST time I attempted to run JFS.

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Setup & Installation / Re: SYS 1201 error during boot.
« on: March 23, 2018, 07:01:07 pm »
Sometimes I see driver boot failures when memory is exhausted. I am not talking about the normal memory pool the end-users see though, so maybe this has something to do with shared memory?

Here is what I see (as an example): all my partitions are HPFS386 (there are 15 of them), when I am trying a new device driver, often times the HPFS386 cache size (set to 128Meg right now) becomes too large and during boot-up I start seeing HPFS386 disk error messages...well, no errors exist, but during the boot process, whatever changes I implemented caused the available memory for HPFS386 cache to be exhausted, thus the failures.

Another example of this is playing with SNAP allocated video memory amount. The hardware has 256Meg on-board, but I only have it set to use 32Meg, else I run into problems booting various other device drivers.

Sooo...my point being: could what you are seeing be similarly driven by memory availability? Maybe the new AOS drivers are now consuming more?

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No LVM in Warp v4 ...

Yikes...well, I stand corrected then...I've been running OS/2 since ohhh about '92 or thereabouts....maybe '93, whenever Warp3 was out if I remember correctly. At some point in time LVM arrived and it made for a tremendous improvement in how a storage device could be managed.

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Hardware / Re: How to find or extract a Postscript printer driver?
« on: March 09, 2018, 12:23:07 am »
I see where one might want to try CUPS if the PPD driver import still fails to deliver a working printer configuration. In my case, I have a Brother HL5470DW, and even though that is a very capable PS printer and the driver import worked just fine, I still can TRAP the driver when attempting to use certain printer options.

Sooo....I have not tried CUPS, seems like way too much overhead to get a couple of extra features working, which really aren't all that critical in my case anyways. But...point is, yes, you may have to rely on something else even with a PS printer if the OS/2 driver simply can not handle it.

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