On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:58:12 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> That's right ... and it's a "hard" reboot, not a soft one. [How can I
> be sure? With a CTRL-ALT-DEL reboot there is no memory test; this
> reboot had a memory test.]
> The page loaded and things seem to be arranged correctly, but before
> [during?] images got downloaded I get a BBS [Big Black Screen] and then
> the reset reboot.
> Since I use a RAMdrive for cache, I don't have the page to look at. Any
> who feel bold enough to attempt to grab the page and check it out after
> reboot, the URL is http://www.motient.com/find/
Well, I was a bit bored so I tried it with A1.62 and A1.66 - both on the
same box with exactly the same setup.
With both versions everything proceeded perfectly normally and they both
crapped out at exactly the same point: Generating Virtual Screen...
Here is what I got overlaid in text mode with A1.62:
Floating point error: Domain
Abnormal Program Termination
Errorlevel 2 ]
Errorlevel 1 ] - These are my debugging outputs.
Errorlevel 0 ]
Press any key to continue.
Then I got the Arachne Fatal Error screen and I pushed reset to be safe.
*
With A1.66, at the crash point I got something very different:
QEMM exception 13 at blah blah blah - no way to capture it.
Do you wish to (C)ontinue, (T)erminate or (R)eboot.
Of course I rebooted with the button.
When I got A working again I examined every single file that had been
left in A1.66's cache and they all looked pretty normal onscreen -
mostly little .gifs - and one shot of the page in the process of build
with red boxes everywhere - probably because she didn't know what pix
to put in the boxes.
I dint look at the code.
Then I tried again with A1.62 and virtual screens OFF.
*WOW*
No crash, but what a mess !
See the screenshot at:
http://www.caverge.arachne.cz/myfiles/xperimental/motient.zbm
or
http://www.caverge.arachne.cz/myfiles/xperimental/motient.gif
And I found the problem. In three spots the source specifies the border
for an IMG SRC as -1. If you remove the "-" signs, the page renders fine.
Ship the bug report L.D., and attach this mail.
Good luck - I don't think he is reading mail these days. ;-(
- Clarence Verge
- Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....
