[iyonix-support] Re: Fatal Flaw in ROM513?

On 26 Feb 2007, Martin Wuerthner wrote:
> In message <4d55c97b4e38ae19bb4e.rogerarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>           Roger Darlington <rogerarm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 25 Feb 2007, John Ballance wrote:
>>
>>> Roger Darlington wrote:
>>>> Twice since upgrading, (and never before) I have had total computer
>>>> crashes using ROM513.
>>>> 
>>>> I am using MessPro (4.23) and OvPro (2.77) at the same time. All of a
>>>> sudden, and without any warning whatsoever, the computer totally
>>>> freezes. [...]
>>> 
>>> this suggests you may be running other software that is customised.
>>> 
>>> Please return your machine as far as possible to standard.. i.e. not
>>> overloading it with 3rd party software, and confirm whether the
>>> behaviour is different.
>> 
>> The total system freeze appears to happen at the moment of initiating
>> a save operation.
> 
> Yes, I have seen that problem, too - many months if not years ago, so
> whatever causes this problem RISC OS 5.13 is not to blame. Every now
> and then saving an e-mail in MPro caused a total freeze. The problem
> has gone away at some stage and it was never established what caused
> it. Basically, any significant system change (e.g., installing a new
> module in your boot sequence) causes memory locations to change, so
> the effects of a bug in some piece of software could change from
> harmless to a system freeze. Obviously, installing a new version of
> the OS is a big change.

In my case, I don't think I can attribute the truncation of the 
MessPro 'NewsRCfile' to that cause.

I think it got truncated by the Fatal Crash of the computer which just 
happened to occur as MessPro/NetFetch/News was automatically 
downloading/saving something during my attempt to save an OvPro file.

It was the saving of the OvPro file, I think, that caused the crash. 
The OvPro file never got saved. The MessPro file got truncated. This 
has happened twice when saving an OvPro file (though to the detriment 
of a MessPro file only once).
.


> 
> Martin


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