>From: Larry Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [Win4Lin-users] Win4Lin hangs, requiring reboot of Linux
>Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:02:19 -0500
>
>
> > I recently purchased Win4Lin 2.0 and installed it on my Red Hat 6.2
>system.
> > On the whole it works fine but if it's left unattended for more than
>about
> > half an hour it freezes completely.
>
>This seems really odd Matt. It's hard to even begin to understand why
>it might be happening as you haven't said anything about what sort of
>system, which version of Windows, etc. you're using.
Plain Red Hat 6.2 install, Windows 98 Standard.
>Which ports (com
>& lpt) are you grabbing with Win4lin.
None.
>Any chance that some Linux
>process is conflicting? I've found, for instance, that if I have com
>ports active in Win4lin, gPhoto can't access them from Linux. Could
>be that some sort of interaction like this is freezing things if
>you're actively using those ports in Win4Lin. For what it's worth, I
>have Win4Lin running most of the time under Mandrake and have never
>had the problem you describe.
Maybe. What other process might conflict with Win4Lin? I'll try shutting
down all non-essential processes and see if the problem persists.
> > It also appears to be impossible to kill the two "dosexec" processes
>that are still running. I've tried closing the Win4Lin "Windows" window;
>kill; kill -9; and kill -15, both as normal
> > and superuser.
>
>Now that seems REALLY wierd. Aren't those processes owned by you? I
>just checked mine and they're owned by me and a simple "kill pid" did
>them in. This really smacks of something interacting with those
>processes that shouldn't.
AFAIK they're owned by me, yes.
> > Even worse, the only way I've found to clear it is to reboot my machine,
>
>Oooo...yuck.
>
> > which in turn fails to cleanly unmount my filesystem because it is "in
>use"
> > (presumably by Win4Lin), which then results in having to run fsck on
>reboot.
>
>Something really wrong with the installation here Matt. This is the
>only explanation for these sorts of results.
So what do you suggest - reinstall Win4Lin? Reinstall Linux?
Thanks,
Matt
>
>Cheers --- Larry
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