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Setup & Installation / Re: 2.1 install. Help the old man
« on: 2011.12.06, 04:26:37 »
Hi

What with all this *typing* in the Reg Key???  :-)  - save the file to a drive that will be accessible during installation, floppy hard drive, usb drive then simply point the installer to the file when asked.

I've never seen an eCS Reg Key supplied in PDF format... Are you sure it is the Reg Key?

You can also login to your Mensys account and retrieve your Reg Key from the Downloads section. Hopefully that will be in plain text which the eCS Installer will understand - Come to think of it, you could also retrieve your Reg Key by logging in at ecomstation.com and clicking the eComStation Registration Keys link.

I did see another post in the ecs newsgroups about the Reg Key not being accepted when it was typed in and wonder if the installer has a bug. If I spot that post again I'll copy it to this thread...

Aha! Found it, but it is when installing eCS in VirtualBox - however that should not really make a difference.

"I am trying to install ECS2.1 in Virtualbox.

I get to the point where it asks for my reg key and I have tried inserting that from a CD (I dont have a floppy drive) and also by typing it in.

When I try from CD the install says invalid key; when I type it in the next button stays greyed out, so I guess it does not like it.

What's the recipe please?"


There were a few suggestions but manually typing did *not* work. The op finished the thread with this:-

"I installed a virtual floppy creator and connected the virtual machine
to it (seems to need to be done on a new image) and BINGO!!!

(But why did it not take the manually typed key? - perhaps leave that
... )"


Very suggestive of something going wrong when typing in the Reg Key.


Regards

Pete









122
Applications / Re: Java6
« on: 2011.12.05, 21:29:11 »
Hi bbouchard

Does vbox rely on libc063.dll?

If "Yes" do you have the libc064.dll package installed? - this contains a replacement libc063.dll file which is a "forwarde" to libc064.dll.

If "Yes" try backleveling the libc063.dll file to the last libc063.dll that worked; probably this 1:-

   11-06-07 10:53p     1,349,060      0 a---  libc063.dll


I'm only suggesting this as I have seen several newsgroup posts suggesting that the libc064.dll may not be "bug free". If this action resolves the issue then we will know there is a problem of some sort with libc064.dll.

Apart from the libc063.dll I'm not sure if there is anything else in common between java6 and vbox...


Regards

Pete

123
Article Discussions / Re: SMplayer version 0.6.9 beta 3
« on: 2011.12.05, 02:32:56 »
Hi silvan

In the smplayer log of a session where smplayer hung while trying to play the file successfuuly played by mplyaer a little earlier I see :-

[19:27:51:575] Core::changeCurrentSec: mplayer reports that now it's playing
[19:27:51:614] Core::finishRestart: --- start ---
[19:27:51:614] Core::newMediaPlaying: --- start ---
[19:27:51:614] Core::initializeMenus
[19:27:51:614] BaseGui::initializeMenus
[19:27:51:614] MplayerVersion::isMplayerAtLeast: comparing 25391 with 33491
[19:27:51:614] MplayerVersion::isMplayerAtLeast: comparing 29407 with 33491
[19:27:51:614] MplayerVersion::isMplayerAtLeast: comparing 25391 with 33491
[19:27:51:614] MplayerVersion::isMplayerAtLeast: comparing 29407 with 33491

The lines

19:27:51:614] MplayerVersion::isMplayerAtLeast: comparing 25391 with 33491
[19:27:51:614] MplayerVersion::isMplayerAtLeast: comparing 29407 with 33491

are repeated ad nauseum - with time stamp changes being the only difference - until the end of the 17.34Mb log file. These lines start at line 405 and finish at line 236164 - presuming ae.exe managed to load the complete file.

Looks like smplayer is getting stuck in a "check the version of mplayer" loop. Could that be why smplayer hangs after a few seconds playback here?


Regards

Pete






124
Article Discussions / Re: SMplayer version 0.6.9 beta 3
« on: 2011.12.04, 04:54:45 »
Hi silvan

Still no luck with smplayer.

I can play a video using mplayer successfully and then try to play the same video using smplayer. About 3 to 5 seconds after playback starts smplayer hangs; no response to mouse or keyboard and no playback. After a short period of time the Window List appears and I can close the onscreen smplayer window - but smplayer and mplayer remain in the Process List and I cannot open the smplayer log file as it is in use.

As the video file plays when using mplayer but not when using smplayer I tend to suspect the problem is smplayer related.

Will see if there are any smplayer/mplayer logs to look at after I reboot.

Regards

Pete


125
Applications / Re: FrostWire now works!
« on: 2011.12.03, 19:46:39 »
Hi melf

I installed from the zip files available at the java6 for ecomstation homepage http://svn.netlabs.org/java/

As I did not add anything to the config.sys file for java6, or my java142 installation, I simply use the full path to java to use when starting a java app. This does prevent any possible confusion between java installations.

I don't have to doubleclick twice on any java app to start it. I wonder what is causing that on your system?

Regards

Pete

126
Applications / Re: FrostWire now works!
« on: 2011.12.03, 19:40:06 »
Hi klipp

Yes, using java.exe got things working; downloads and seeding worked fine.

I've now looked at the start script for Windows and found that I needed to modify it by adding all the Frostwire jar files to the classpath:-

@echo off
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
SET PATH=%PATH%;.
REM Get all common jars.
SET CLASSPATH=J:\Java\frostwire\commons-logging.jar;J:\Java\frostwire\frostwire.jar;J:\Java\frostwire\gettext-commons.jar;J:\Java\frostwire\gson-1.4.jar;J:\Java\frostwire\h2-1.3.160.jar;J:\Java\frostwire\httpclient-4.0.jar;J:\Java\frostwire\httpcore-4.0.1.jar;J:\Java\frostwire\lucene-3.4.0.jar;J:\Java\frostwire\lw-alexandria.jar;J:\Java\frostwire\lw-azureus.jar;J:\Java\frostwire\lw-common.jar;J:\Java\frostwire\lw-osx_stub.jar;J:\Java\frostwire\lw-resources.jar;J:\Java\frostwire\lw-setting.jar;J:\Java\frostwire\messages.jar;J:\Java\frostwire\MRJAdapter.jar;J:\Java\frostwire\splash.jar;J:\Java\frostwire\substance.jar;J:\Java\frostwire\trident.jar;
J:\Java\openJDK6\bin\java.exe -Xms32m -Xmx128m -Ddebug=1 -Djava.net.preferIPV6Addresses=false -ea -Djava.net.preferIPv4stack=true com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Main



Not the most elegant solution but I could not figure out how to get this bit of the original script working in OS/2:-

REM Get all common jars.
FOR %%j IN (*.jar) DO (
  SET CLASSPATH=!CLASSPATH!;%%j
)


I guess rexx would be the answer if I get some time to look into it again.

With my modified script I now get a lot less errors and they seem to be DNS related, from the start of the debug log:-

[02/12/11 17:16] Log File Opened for Vuze 4.5.0.4
[17:16:50] DEBUG::Fri Dec 02 17:16:50 GMT 2011  Successfully migrated key management
[17:16:52] [stderr] DEBUG::Fri Dec 02 17:16:52 GMT 2011::com.aelitis.azureus.core.versioncheck.VersionCheckClient::preProcessReply::-1:
[17:16:52] DEBUG::Fri Dec 02 17:16:52 GMT 2011::com.aelitis.azureus.core.versioncheck.VersionCheckClient::preProcessReply::-1:
[17:16:52] [stderr]   com.aelitis.azureus.core.networkmanager.admin.NetworkAdminException: DNS query failed
[17:16:52] [stderr]    at com.aelitis.azureus.core.networkmanager.admin.impl.NetworkAdminASNLookupImpl.lookupDNS(Unknown Source


I'll have to ask the guys at Frostwire what the likely cause of this is - and possible solution(s).

Frostwire is starting and running fine though.



Regards

Pete

127
Hardware / Re: Graphics card
« on: 2011.12.02, 19:50:44 »
Hi Raiko

Well, you are going to be running those cards in VESA mode (Panorama driver or SNAP set to VBE fallback) so don't expect the same level of performance as they would deliver if they had accelerated drivers.

Regards

Pete

128
Applications / Re: FrostWire now works!
« on: 2011.12.02, 19:46:02 »
Hi klipp

btw: I'm using:-

[J:\JAVA\OPENJDK6\BIN]java -fullversion
openjdk full version "1.6.0-ga-b22"

FrostWire 5.2.11


I now have a program object with the following (did not have the Working Directory set previously):-

J:\JAVA\OPENJDK6\BIN\JAVAW.EXE
-jar J:\Java\frostwire\frostwire.jar
J:\JAVA\FROSTWIRE

When Frostwire starts it displays an error message that starts "Frostwire has encountered an internal error. it is possible to recover and continue running normally." Then a bit about debugging.

There is a "Review" button which displays the errors. Sadly it is not possible to copy and paste that here - and I do not have enough time to type it due to length.

It does start with "java.util.MissingResourceException: image global_large doesn't exist." followed by a huge list of "at"s.

Exiting from the error message does not "continue" or exit Frostwire; it needs to be killed as it is not onscreen or in the Window List.

Changing the JAVAW.EXE to JAVA.EXE I see (in the command window) "Could not load properties from property file." but the Frostwire Setup Wizard appears onscreen. When I finished the Setup Wizard I see there is an error in the command window because this is displayed:-

Caused by: javax.naming.CommunicationException: DNS error [Root exception is jav
a.net.SocketException: socket closed]; remaining name '190.98.1.82.origin.asn.cy
mru.com'

This is followed by lots more errors.

I declined the offer of Frostwire "smiley" stickers.

More errors scroll past in the command window - and Frostwire appears onscreen and works; currently doing a quick download to test :-)

I suspect the errors may be ClassPath related.

I did contact the guys at Frostwire and was advised that other operating systems (inc Windows) start Frostwire using a script and was sent this Windows batch file:-

@echo off
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
SET PATH=%PATH%;.
SET CLASSPATH=.;.

REM Get all common jars.
FOR %%j IN (*.jar) DO (
  SET CLASSPATH=!CLASSPATH!;%%j
)

java -Xms32m -Xmx128m -Ddebug=1 -Djava.net.preferIPV6Addresses=false -ea -Djava.net.preferIPv4stack=true com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Main

(The above from "java" to ".Main" is all 1 line)

I have not yet managed to get a working OS/2 version of the above script though... Any thoughts?


Regards

Pete










129
Applications / Re: FrostWire now works!
« on: 2011.12.02, 02:24:44 »
Hi klipp

Does it?

Is there a magical incantation involved?  ;-)

I tried this command:-
J:\JAVA\OPENJDK6\BIN\JAVAW.EXE -jar J:\Java\frostwire\frostwire.jar

Result: command line window disappeared, nothing happened, command line window reappeared, no Frostwire.

Trying this line instead:-
J:\JAVA\OPENJDK6\BIN\JAVA.EXE -jar J:\Java\frostwire\frostwire.jar

I get the following:-
java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero
        at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Main.getChosenSplashURL(Unknown Source)
        at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Main.showInitialSplash(Unknown Source)
        at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Main.main(Unknown Source)


I'm guessing that it needs classpath or something similar added to the command line.

How have you got Frostwire running?

For anyone else who wants to try Frostwire you need to download the tarball option on http://www.frostwire.com/downloads

Regards

Pete



130
Article Discussions / Re: SMplayer version 0.6.9 beta 3
« on: 2011.11.30, 17:17:09 »
Hi silvan

I hope I don't have a misconfigured qt installation. The few qt apps that I have installed seem to be working fine - as was smplayer 0.6.9b2

I used Warpin to uninstall the qt 4.6.3 installation before unzipping qt 4.7.3; However I guess there is always a chance that I missed something that has not affected any qt apps until smplayer 0.6.9b3

I no longer have a copy of the log sent to you so cannot check that for mention of qt 4.6 but the current log does not mention qt 4.6 at all.

I'm currently trying various tweaks to the smplayer settings and will report back if I find a way of getting this app to work reasonably well.


Regards

Pete


131
Article Discussions / Re: SMplayer version 0.6.9 beta 3
« on: 2011.11.30, 04:30:19 »
Hi Doug

Glad to hear it works for you...

I'll have to try 069b3 again and see if I can get a reasonable size log file that may shed some light on why it does not work that well here.


Regards

Pete

132
Setup & Installation / Re: Startup sound files
« on: 2011.11.30, 02:42:48 »
Hi jasperdog

I think you are referring to the Startup Sound from Warp4 - part of the Desktop sound theme.

As for multibooting (dual boot was something that booted DOS from the OS/2 Desktop as a Virtual Machine) I guess it depends what other operating systems you have on the hard drive and also how new the hardware is.


Regards

Pete

133
Article Discussions / Re: SMplayer version 0.6.9 beta 3
« on: 2011.11.29, 19:22:07 »
Hi Silvan

I doubt I'll be reading the smplayer log as it is nearly 26Mb in size:-

29-11-11  2:34p    26,595,125    124 a---  smplayer_log.txt


That seems to be an excessively large log file.


Regards

Pete

134
Article Discussions / Re: SMplayer version 0.6.9 beta 3
« on: 2011.11.29, 16:46:48 »
Hi Silvan

Well, whatever is "wrong" here only affects this build; 0.6.9b2 works fine without any of this jerkiness.

I guess there could be some sort of configuration/setting that 0.6.9b3 requires to prevent the jerky playback but see nothing to suggest that is the case in the readme.

However, I have tried setting cache values of 100Kb for Local Files and DVDs (Default is 0) which has not helped. In fact it has made things much worse:-

Playback is still jerky

smplayer does not exit after playback if starting playback by doubleclicking a video file and cannot be closed by clicking any of the smplayer exit buttons

Killing smplayer in the Process List - have my keyboard windows Start key set to display Process List - does remove the playback window from screen but leaves smplayer - and mplayer -  in the Process List.

Attempting to kill smplayer using TOP results in TOP stating that smplayer cannot be killed.

Looks like I have to reboot to remove smplayer from the Process List - then I'll get to read the log generated and see if there is any obvious problem(s).


If you have any suggestions as to how to make smplayer 0.6.9b3 work properly here I'm interested.


Regards

Pete

135
Article Discussions / Re: SMplayer version 0.6.9 beta 3
« on: 2011.11.28, 22:21:42 »
Hi Silvan

Maybe it should have been a beta as playback using this build can only be described as exceedingly jerky.

Back to the previous build for me.

Regards

Pete

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