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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: JaXanim on October 05, 2004, 11:32:19 PM

Title: You the Guru?
Post by: JaXanim on October 05, 2004, 11:32:19 PM

Can anyone shed any light on my persistant Guru?

After replacing my boot drive and installing my Workbench backup, I'm getting a persistant Recoverable Alert during boot up.

Workbench eventually loads OK, but the Last Alert messager gives the following:

Alert Name: ANG_MemoryInsane
Spec Alert: exec.library
Spec Error: Sanity check on memory list failed during      AvailMem (MEMFGLARGEST)

I haven't the foggiest where to look for the problem, but I bet someone here does. Eh?

Cheers,

JaX

Title: Re: You the Guru?
Post by: KennyR on October 05, 2004, 11:44:35 PM

Something you are running on boot or from WBStartup is breaking your memlists, probably by trying to free RAM twice or RAM it didn't allocate. In short, some prog is buggy, and it's wreaking havoc on your ram.

You can either disable all your add-ons and patches and re-enable them one at a time, or you can run Enforcer early in Startup-Sequence, which will display a hit with the name of the offending program. It's not a beginner's tool though.

Title: Re: You the Guru?
Post by: JaXanim on October 05, 2004, 11:57:56 PM

@KennyR

OK, I'll look at the boot sequence and try by a process of elimination. There are one or two patches in there so one or other must have gone haywire when my old drive died on me.

Many thanks for your advice.

Cheers,

JaX