UAE (drummond) and bsdsocket problem

[kadi]

Hello.

I have recently installed Richard Drummonds UAE for Linux ontop of my Mandrake Linux setup.

It works well, the GFX ist fast enough for my needs (spoilt by Amithlon) but i need to solve some last few problems i still have.

One of them is the bsd-socket emulation that keeps to crash.
It crashes everytime i use IBrowse for some minutes. At first some pictures refuse to load, then nothing comes thru anymore. Then IBrowse locks up, sometimes UAE is exiting and  it even locks the X-mousepointer.

On the Linux side, in the Terminal i started UAE from, theres an errormessage that says:"BSDSOCK: failed to create thread".

Has someone experienced the same? Or can someone help me?

Thats pretty much anoying because the rest of UAE works so good.

[evilrich]

Hi Kadi

One of them is the bsd-socket emulation that keeps to crash.

Yes. It does that. ;-)

I haven't had time to do anything with the bsdsocket emulation yet. It works in a limited kind of way as is, but is decidedly dodgy.  It works okay with AWeb for browsing, but I have heard that Voyager and IBrowse cause problems.  It may be a threading issue - can you restrict the number of streams that IBrowse uses?

I will fix the bsdsocket emulation eventually. I don't have the time to do it right now.

Cheers,
Rich

[kadi]

Yes it's possible to reduce the number of network connections in IBrowse and i'm going to try that...

[Quixote]

;-) Hello, Richard, and welcome to Amiga.org.

:pint: The first one's on me....

[evilrich]

Let me know if it makes a difference or not . . .

[evilrich]

Hello, Richard, and welcome to Amiga.org.

Thanks.

The first one's on me...

I'd kill for a pint of Theakston's Old Peculiar right now. You should see what passes for beer in this country. ;-)

Cheers,
Rich

[Red_Melons]

evilrich wrote:

I will fix the bsdsocket emulation eventually. I don't have the time to do it right now.

Do you still intend to provide a glibc2.2 version of the uae-0.8.23-20040125-ppc binary or is that no longer supported (it's a nightmare trying to upgrade Linux on 56k dialup)?

[kadi]

> Let me know if it makes a difference or not . . .

It makes a difference, with connections reduced to two i can use IBrowse for about half an hour, increased to 16 i cannot load Amiga.org for two times without the crash.

So it helps a bit but doesn`t fix the problem sufficientely.

I encountered another problem concerning IBrowse. Sometimes IBrowse crashes the Emulator on startup, saying:

Jit can' t handle access
JIT: instruction byte 0 is 8b
JIT: instruction byte 1 is 57
JIT: instruction byte 2 is 04
JIT: instruction byte 3 is 89
JIT: instruction byte 4 is 55
JIT: instruction byte 5 is dc
JIT: instruction byte 6 is 83
JIT: instruction byte 7 is e2
JIT: instruction byte 8 is f8
JIT: instruction byte 9 is 83
segmentation fault

and the x cursor is locked.



I have set the JIT to "indirect". With "direct" and "direct after Picasso" i see some MUI or Workbench patterns to show up corrupted.

[evilrich]

Do you still intend to provide a glibc2.2 version of the uae-0.8.23-20040125-ppc binary

Yes. If I haven't done it within a couple of days, mail me to remind me about it. I have a head like a swiss cheese sometimes . . . ;-)
Cheers,
Rich

[evilrich]

I encountered another problem concerning IBrowse. Sometimes IBrowse crashes the Emulator on startup, saying:

I have had similar reports of problems with IBrowse. I need to test it myself to check out what it's up to . . .

I have set the JIT to "indirect". With "direct" and "direct after Picasso" i see some MUI or Workbench patterns to show up corrupted

I've not heard that before. Perhaps you can give me more information.

Cheers,
Rich