On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 12:33:49PM -0800, Mark W. Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using the 2.2.16 kernel patched with the appropriate patch from the
> NeTraverse web site. I've been running this kernel for 2-3 weeks now.
>
> One thing I'm seeing fairly consistently is that in Quicken 99, when
> downloading stock quotes, Quicken & Windows gets stuck and basically dies.
> The Quicken dialog boxes are still up, saying that it's downloading, but
> nothings moving, and it never comes back. I can't minimize Quicken, so I'm
> not 100% sure that Windows itself is hung, or just Quicken running inside of
> Windows is hung.
>
> The only consistent way out (that I've found) is a kill -9 on the
> original xterm I start the win & from. When I do this, 1/2 the time it ends
> up corrupting the Quicken database, so I have to do a restore from backup.
>
> There's no CPU cycles being consumed by anything that Win4Lin started up,
> and Linux itself seems responsive.
>
> The underlying networking on the PC seems completely stable. I've never
> seen it hang up in Linux, and I can get to the network even when Quicken is
> hung up. (Say using Netscape itself...)
>
> Has anyone else seen anything like this? Is there a way for me to
> identify what might be going on? Any Linux files to look at?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark
>
I've had flaky results when using Quicken to d/l stock quotes, too. I
have been able to get out of it by giving my Win98se the
three-fingered salute, where the Quicken session shows as
'not-responding', followed by a click on 'End Task'. Sometimes I can
get the quotes by just restarting Quicken and retrying, sometimes it
takes rebooting Win-dohs. Depends on the phase of the moon and
various planetary alignments. I've never had to kill any Linux
process to overcome the problem, though; I've always thought of it as
part of the cost of doing Windows. BTW, this happened to me when I
was running 2.2.16 also; so far it hasn't happened under 2.2.18, but
I've only been running that for a couple of weeks.
One other oddity I've found with these particular downloads is this: I
have two user accounts on my Debian box - one is my first choice for a
user name, and the second makes it easier to retrieve mail from my ISP
(it's used exclusively for mail ops). I start w4l under the first
name, and if I start a ppp connection under the second name (so that
the pppd process has a different owner from w4l), the d/l doesn't seem
to want to work at all. Has anyone else seen this problem? Since
there's an obvious workaround (or, rather, a way to obviate the
problem), it's just a curiosity, but nevertheless, it's curious :-).
--
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