Re: [Ql-Users] WIN drive gone missing

[Timothy Swenson]

I agree with Wolfgang in that there probably was an outstanding file 
lock on the .WIN file.  The file lock would keep other programs from 
writing to the .WIN file, but it would allow programs to read from it. 
This is why you could copy it and why SMSQmulator said it was read-only.


The reboot cleared the lock and all was well.  The cause of the crash 
might be difficult to determine.  Windows is not easy to troubleshoot. 
There is no truss or par trace capability built into the OS (at least 
not that I am aware of), so you can't look inside a process to see what 
is happening.


I remember the old bit:  "The software said to install Windows 95 or 
better, so I installed Linux."


Tim Swenson
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Re: [Ql-Users] WIN drive gone missing

[ql]

Just days ago I experienced the same. In my case QPC2 was still in the Windows 
Task Manager. I killed it there and then a fresh start opened the QXL.win and 
properly booted up.

In my case I got the same problem day by day. After investigating it looks like 
there's a bug in QPAC2 Files which causes SMSQ/E to freeze.

Urs

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

> Am 18.03.2016 um 16:12 schrieb Bob Spelten :
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Today, while working in QPC2 on my W$7 system, SMSQ/E suddenly froze.
> No mouse movement, no keys and Sysmon had stopped.
> I could kill the QPC2 task with the [x] button but it would not restart my 
> boot.
> QPC2 & SMSQ/E do start but WIN1_ cannot be mounted anymore ("not found").
> 
> I then checked this with another QPC2 but the QXL.WIN could not be mounted 
> with WIN_DRIVE there too. SMSQmulator however, where it's normally mounted as 
> WIN7_, reports it as "read only" but I can list the files and view their 
> contents.
> 
> In W$7 I can View the .WIN file (Total Commander /View) but when mounting 
> that directory with DOS_DRIVE in QPC2, viewing the .WIN file from QPAC2/Files 
> gave an "in use" error.
> My other .WIN drives there are OK.
> 
> Does anyone know what happened here and how I can fix this?
> There was a channel to a BDAS file open on WIN1_ at the time but this has 
> never been a problem when SuQcess2 crashed in the past. Never lost a _dbs 
> that way.
> 
> Bob
> 
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Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQ/E boot sequence

[Marcel Kilgus]

Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> I won't pretend I understood all of it by any means, but interesting to read
> all the same.
>
> And congratulations on the new look website - very nice.

Thanks :-) 18 years ago I did my first web page and I think this one
is the first one looking halfway decent ;-) I invested more time in
its PHP and CSS code than I care to admit.

Not sure how much I'll really use the blog, but it might come handy
now and then, like it has now.

Marcel

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Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQ/E boot sequence

[Marcel Kilgus]

Norman Dunbar wrote:
> I had to do some C programming recently, and I was completely unable to
> get started after "int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {" - I simply 
> couldn't remember! I got there in the end - 
> https://github.com/NormanDunbar/TraceMiner - but the C quality is 
> probably dubious!

Actually I can tell a lot about programmers through the way they
structure and indent their code. Except the missing spaces in the for
loop in line 428 this is as spotless as I've ever seen it ;) Can't
even scold you for the use of strncpy as you've properly documented
it! Of course if C is the right language for parsing and emitting
text is another discussion ;)

Cheers, Marcel

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[Ql-Users] Sqlite C library

[Massimino Boccardi]

Hi.
Is it possible to recompile the Sqlite 3 library on the QL !?

www.sqlite.org 

Regards,
Massimino
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[Ql-Users] WIN drive gone missing

[Bob Spelten]

Hi All,

Today, while working in QPC2 on my W$7 system, SMSQ/E suddenly froze.
No mouse movement, no keys and Sysmon had stopped.
I could kill the QPC2 task with the [x] button but it would not restart my  
boot.

QPC2 & SMSQ/E do start but WIN1_ cannot be mounted anymore ("not found").

I then checked this with another QPC2 but the QXL.WIN could not be mounted  
with WIN_DRIVE there too. SMSQmulator however, where it's normally mounted  
as WIN7_, reports it as "read only" but I can list the files and view  
their contents.


In W$7 I can View the .WIN file (Total Commander /View) but when mounting  
that directory with DOS_DRIVE in QPC2, viewing the .WIN file from  
QPAC2/Files gave an "in use" error.

My other .WIN drives there are OK.

Does anyone know what happened here and how I can fix this?
There was a channel to a BDAS file open on WIN1_ at the time but this has  
never been a problem when SuQcess2 crashed in the past. Never lost a _dbs  
that way.


Bob

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Re: [Ql-Users] WIN drive gone missing

[Marcel Kilgus]

Bob Spelten wrote:
> Does anyone know what happened here and how I can fix this?

Difficult to say. First check with task manager if there is a zombie
QPC2 process still hanging around.

Marcel

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