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Re: MiNT crashed (authoritetive response ;))

Hello,

That assert you've seen occurs in the following condition:

1) INIT is MiNTOS
2) GEM was or has been active (executed from login or from textshell)
3) INIT process quits

It seems there's a conflict between MINTOS and GEM. There's no problem
if INIT=MiNTOS or INIT=GEM. THe problem occurs only if they two are (or
were) present in the system. Generally, it seems it more GEM problem, than
MiNT kernel one.

As for quitting MiNTOS, I have no clue. This happened for me once so far
(i.e. the INIT process quitted without a reason, just a telnet connection
came from the network, login was executed, the user logged in, worked for
a while, and did logout; at this moment the system exited to TOS with all
messages it normally does, i.e. "exiting on signal 15", "Syncing disks"
etc.)

Konrad M.Kokoszkiewicz
mail:draco@bl.pg.gda.pl
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~conradus/

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On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Petr Stehlik wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been working in my usual MiNTOS setup and suddenly, when I was
> switching the applications with Alt-Ctrl-Tab, whole system crashed with
> this message:
> 
> syslogd: exiting on signal 15
> pid 47 (SCREEN): assert(`x') failed at line 1186 of pipefs.c
> FATAL ERROR. You must reboot system.
> 
> My setup is up to date: selfcompiled MiNT 1.14.6, N.AES 1.1.0, Taskbar,
> Thing etc. At the moment of switching just Everest and aMAIL were running.
> BTW, the last program displayed in the switching dialog of N.AES was
> Taskbar, so I was switching from or to Taskbar (I don't think Taskbar is
> related to that crash, though).
> 
> The pipefs.c was trying to pipe_close() and it couldn't remove a pointer (I
> don't understand pipefs, so it doesn't ring a bell for me).
> 
> Do you know which application actually failed? Was it N.AES who were
> switching the apps? And why it killed whole MiNT?
> 
> Petr
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