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Hardware / Re: Getting Trap 8's and Trap E's: Help!
« on: 2008.03.26, 04:05:30 »
To check memory I would recommend the MemTest tool that you can download an ISO image to boot you system from. If you have defect memory, this tool will let you know.

Thanks for the pointer. I just ran memtest and there's LOTS of memory errors. It seems that the lowest order bit of my memory is stuck. I don't know which memory module yet --- time to yank out modules. Hopefully, I'll be living with 1GB rather than 2GB (better than all the modules failing!).

cytan

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Hardware / Re: Getting Trap 8's and Trap E's: Help!
« on: 2008.03.25, 15:57:24 »
Thanks for the info. I just checked and I don't have turbo folders enabled.

I'll try out FF3. FF2 does eat up shared memory, but OpenOffice 2 is even worse!

I'm going to clean up my INI files again to be sure that that isn't the problem. If this doesn't fix it, I'll have to do a full memory scan.

cytan

Hi, cytan!
Just a little contribute (hopefully...):
1) as for Firefox: which version are you using?  You might perhaps give a try to Firefox3 b4, on which developers are putting ongoing efforts in order to minimize memory leaks and increasing memory consumption (FF3 is much faster and it frees up more memory whenever needed, and sooner, than FF2).
2) as for WPSWizard, I seem to remember that WPSWizard README said you should disable XWorkplace (maybe eCenter too?) TURBO FOLDERS options, in order to avoid some icon repainting problems (you can usually realize you are having this issue when you hear some beeps when opening folders and the like).  You might want to try the latest version 0.6.1a3 recently uploaded to Netlabs Incoming.

Please note this MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT be your issue, so take all the above as just a guess...
Good luck!

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Hardware / Re: Getting Trap 8's and Trap E's: Help!
« on: 2008.03.24, 18:29:15 »
Hi Glenn,
   My symptoms are quite different from yours. My WPS does not freeze on start up. However, what I'm worried about is that my memory may be going bad or some other piece of hardware. These problems perhaps started happening when I installed WPSWizard, but I won't start blaming it until there is some corroboration with others here. The WPS freezing is really annoying. I used to be able to have my system up for 21 days or more, but the WPS freeze is happening every 3 to 7 days.

   There is also another possibility that shared memory may be exhausting that's causing the firefox Trap E problem. I have sunbird, thunderbird and firefox running nearly all the time. Firefox seems to eat up shared memory after a while.

   I hope other people have seen this or suggesting to what to do next.

cytan

Hi,

I have not seen TRAP screens, but my WPS also freezes after a reboot (hardware is 7 months old).

If I keep the SHIFT key pressed when the graphical screen first appears, which usually prevents startup programs to get started, I get here the XWorkPlace panic box (because of the integration of xworkplace into ecomstation). Then I click on "run xfix", wait a little while, sometimes I see if there are no registry entries to be cleaned, then save the INI files again, and quit xfix. The WPS then restarts, and everything works well (almost... I have found RC4 to be more unstable than eCS1.2, maybe because of ACPI).

Please tell me if following this process helps you. I feared that my problems happen because of some installed third-party software (and that I would get the "we cant help you if you are the only one with this problem") but if you experience the same issues, then it may be a more general problem that would have to be solved by SSI, because the above method is something that should really be avoided when using eCS on a daily basis.

AyPP

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Hardware / Getting Trap 8's and Trap E's: Help!
« on: 2008.03.24, 16:40:12 »
Hi all,
   I Ecomstation setup is getting quite unstable these days. I sometimes get
    (1) Trap E's when I exit firefox
    (2) Trap 8's after I reboot when my WPS freezes for no apparent reason.

Are there any pointers as to how to track this down? Is this an indication of some hardware failure?

Thanks for any help!

cytan

170
Applications / Re: JRE 1.5.0_07 under eCs???
« on: 2008.02.29, 16:45:41 »
Has anyone tried this out, or have any other apps running with java 1.5.  Seems like this should have created a little more buzz.

Well, if it were 1.6, then I think there'll be more excitement. But it's good that 1.5 seems to work with ODIN.

cytan

171
Article Discussions / Re: Open source petition to Innotek?
« on: 2008.02.19, 18:03:09 »
This is great news!  :)

172
Applications / Re: VBOX/2, problems starting ...
« on: 2008.02.15, 21:36:15 »
Finally got Fedora 8 installed in vbox/2 (Paul's build). Everything is working! Networking via NAT, the linux additions to get 1024x768 resolution, shared folders. I even managed to install JAVA 6 in Fedora which was what I really needed.
This is great!

I've got enough info to write up an article for os2voice about my install experience. Hopefully I get it written up soon.

Thanks to Paul for his great work! Hopefully USB support, CDROM support will happen at some point (and seamless support if possible).

Just out of curiousity, for installing say WinXP in vbox, can only a full retail version be installed, yes no?

cytan

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Applications / Re: VBOX/2, problems starting ...
« on: 2008.02.13, 18:11:20 »
The only real requirements I know of is libc 0.6.3, and adding the VBoxDrv.sys to CONFIG.SYS. That's all I had to do to use VirtualBox.exe. I am also using a P4.

  Someone on the Innotek site had trouble until they lowered their cache size for JFS.... maybe you could try that?

Aha, found the problem. I had to unset HOME and set the following environment variable:

set VBOX_USER_HOME=d:\

My guess is that VBOX needed to open something in the home directory.

I problem down, the next one is to figure out this NAT stuff and video resolution in FEDORA which is stuck at 800x600 right now.

cytan

P.S. Maybe I'd write up something for OS2voice about setting this thing up at some point.

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Applications / Re: VBOX/2, problems starting ...
« on: 2008.02.13, 05:50:07 »
  I haven't used the BFE version lately... I have no trouble with VirtualBox.exe. One thing I do know... if you install with the BFE, you must set the hard drive to PIIX3 if you try to run that Virtual Machine with VirtualBox.exe.

  The other thing is VirtualBox.exe does not work well on SMP machines. There are a couple of test files for this problem on the Innotek ftp site....

  No problem with NAT here either (not using a firewall on the host though), but you seem to have a special setup that may present special routing requirements...

So there's no special SHELL variables which needs to be set up? I've set the path and libpath to point to where I installed vbox and that's no help.

My machine is SCSI and so I think there is no PIIX3 setup for it, I think. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm running a P4 and not SMP. So that shouldn't be a problem.

I'll try the Innotek build instead and see if that works.

cytan

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Applications / VBOX/2, problems starting ...
« on: 2008.02.12, 22:59:29 »
Hi all,
   I finally managed to download VBOX/2 from Paul's site and have installed Fedora. I've successfully started up Fedora using:
   vboxbfe -m 256 -hda fedora8.vdi -boot c -natdev1 -share f:\share share

but I've been unable to startup:

   virtualbox.exe
 or
  vboxsdl

I always get the error message:

Failed to initialize COM or to find the Virtual Box COM Server.

What else do I need to do?

Furthermore, I'm not getting networking to work quite right yet. I have a NAT server already running on my PC via Injoy Firewall. I can do an nslookup in Fedora, but anything else like telnet says that it cannot find a route. Does this mean that I cannot use NAT in VBOX but must use HIF?

Any advice appreciated. Thanks!

cytan

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Applications / Re: Sun wants Innotek
« on: 2008.02.12, 20:42:57 »
Can this at least bring some hope for Java on OS/2? One can only hope.

cytan

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Applications / Re: New forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org
« on: 2008.02.08, 17:45:43 »
  I have installed Windows 2000 and Fedora 8 on this latest VirtualBox using the QT version (VirtualBox.exe). Networking, shared folders, integrated mouse and variable screen size work great. Snapshots work along with seamless mode. I have had no mouse issues as reported by others - may be video card related (I am running a P4 processor with HT off, ATI Radeon 9600 AGP)? Maybe MARKEXE would help those with SMP boxes?

  There still is no direct CD, Floppy, USB or COM support (haven't tried the Pipe support yet though). No clipboard sharing. Over all, it seems to have better performance than VirtualPC for OS/2. IMO, once CD hardware support is added, VPC is history.


Sounds great! I'll compare VBox with SVista next week.
Pardon my ignorance, what is snapshot and seamless mode?

cytan

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Applications / Re: New forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org
« on: 2008.02.08, 05:18:14 »
Ill give it a shot, I have used Paul's most recent build so I have something to benchmark this off of :)

One nice new thing is that a console window saying that the QT app hasn't been linked or whatever does not show up :P

Also, the flaky mouse I was having before seems to be much improved in this build, although it still loves to dart to the bottom of the screen at random.

What about networking? Does it work?

cytan

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Applications / Re: New forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org
« on: 2008.02.07, 04:19:34 »
I'd really love to download it and test it out, especially the networking part, but I won't have access to my OS/2 PC until Monday next week :(. Please, can somebody install it and report how it works.

Thanks!

cytan

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ODIN / Re: Current Status of the ODIN OS/2 Project
« on: 2008.02.02, 20:08:15 »
If there is a great improvement in the current ODIN, I'd be ecstatic. But I'm going to remain calm and collected :) until there is an official announcement about what the 35MB file is all about.

cytan

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