Re: XWin 4.3.0-50 crashes with -multiwindow

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Fabrizio,

I was initially running 'ipc-daemon2' within Cygwin to enable the 
MIT-SHM extension to work properly; this caused x64 to crash with the 
"Bad system call" message.  After finding out that you were not using 
ipc-daemon2 I re-ran x64 with XWin.exe running in multi-window mode and 
it seemed to work fine.  In fact, here is a screenshot:

http://msu.edu/~huntharo/vice-20040311-2150.png

Since I cannot reproduce the crash, I think I must ask you to search 
your machine for some really old copies of cygwin1.dll.  I am not sure 
what else could be causing this to work on my machine but to fail on yours.

I made a package for VICE that installed to /usr instead of 
/usr/local... you should be able to install it and see if if fixes your 
problems... if it does, it won't tell us much. :)  To install my 
package, copy and paste the following mirror URL into Cygwin's setup.exe 
and click the 'Add' button, then select VICE from that mirror:

http://www.egr.msu.edu/~huntharo/cygwin/

If you install my package, make sure that you are pointing to the 
correct 'x64' before you run it.  Might be best to run '/usr/bin/x64' 
explicitly.

My output from VICE's 'x64' is below.

Harold

========================================================================
Xlib:  extension "MIT-SHM" missing on display "127.0.0.1:0.0".
*** VICE Version 1.14 ***

Welcome to x64, the free portable C64 Emulator.

Current VICE team members:
A. Boose, D. Lem, T. Biczo, A. Dehmel, T. Bretz, A. Matthies,
M. Pottendorfer, M. Brenner, S. Trikaliotis.

This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
See the "About VICE" command for more info.

X11: Found 24bit/TrueColor visual.
X11: Using private colormap.
Video: Warning - The MITSHM extension is not supported on this display.
Loading system file `/usr/lib/vice/C64/kernal'.
C64MEM: Kernal rev #3.
Loading system file `/usr/lib/vice/C64/basic'.
Loading system file `/usr/lib/vice/C64/chargen'.
Loading system file `/usr/lib/vice/PRINTER/mps803'.
Palette: Loading palette `/usr/lib/vice/PRINTER/mps803.vpl'.
Loading system file `/usr/lib/vice/PRINTER/nl10-cbm'.
Palette: Loading palette `/usr/lib/vice/PRINTER/mps803.vpl'.
NL10: Printer driver initialized.
Loading system file `/usr/lib/vice/DRIVES/dos1541'.
Loading system file `/usr/lib/vice/DRIVES/d1541II'.
Loading system file `/usr/lib/vice/DRIVES/dos1570'.
Loading system file `/usr/lib/vice/DRIVES/dos1571'.
Loading system file `/usr/lib/vice/DRIVES/d1571cr'.
Loading system file `/usr/lib/vice/DRIVES/dos1581'.
Loading system file `/usr/lib/vice/DRIVES/dos2031'.
Loading system file `/usr/lib/vice/DRIVES/dos2040'.
Loading system file `/usr/lib/vice/DRIVES/dos3040'.
Loading system file `/usr/lib/vice/DRIVES/dos4040'.
Loading system file `/usr/lib/vice/DRIVES/dos1001'.
Drive: Finished loading ROM images.
X11Video: Successfully initialized without shared memory.
X11Video: Warning - Performance will be poor.
X11Video: Successfully initialized without shared memory.
X11Video: Warning - Performance will be poor.
Keyboard: Loading keymap `/usr/lib/vice/C64/x11_sym.vkm'.
Main CPU: starting at ($FFFC).
Main CPU: RESET.
Drive 8: RESET.
Drive 8: RESET.

Exiting...

========================================================================

fabrizio.ge@tiscali.it wrote:

> Strange, I never got that "Bad system call" message, and I could not find
> it anywhere in VICE's sources. Is that a Cygwin message?
> The crash I get is reproducible. Maybe I can send you my version of x64.exe
> complete with gdb debugging info?
>
> This is what I do.
>
> $ export DISPLAY=:0
>
> afg036@ZIT05-0147 /cygdrive/d/Profiles/afg036.DS.000/vice-1.14/src
> $ ./x64