On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 17:12 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2009 16:08, Michael Robinson wrote: > > When I run fdupdate, it crashes with a 2 near fnodes error. > > Hi, > > Please define the crash. When exactly is it happening? When FDUPDATE is > starting itself, or when it run wget to retrieve the repository list? > > That's a verry important information, as it will tell us wheter it's really a > FDUPDATE crash, or wget... > Does wget itself works fine (can you retrieve any file with it)? > > As for FDUPDATE, it's a very simple program written in FreeBASIC, there is no > Network handlers at all, just the gui + the wget "sublauncher". > Another test would consist of using the CURL handler instead of the wget's > one. Obviously you will have to install CURL, and modify the FDUPDATE > configuration file to tell it to use CURL instead of wget... > > > I wish I knew exactly what is causing the crash. > > Please give us the informations I asked for, it will be a good start :) > > Best regards, > Mateusz Viste
I'm not certain about what is crashing. Changing to curl makes no difference at all. This works on my Pentium 4, so I suspect there is something specific to my 486 that is causing the problem. I wish the crash message was more descriptive. A dump of the processor's registers and more than 2 near fnodes does not tell me what crashed. Did command.com crash? Was there an invalid memory reference because I need to exclude a certain region and don't know about it? If someone else has a real DTK 486 DX2-66 that uses 30 pin memory, I'd appreciate an attempt by them to reproduce this problem. I have tried running only fdapm, ne2000, mouse, DOSLFN, command, and system. I still get kernel panic, system halted. I have 20 megs of ram, memtest says that the memory is fine. Could the order I have the chips plugged in in be a problem? Which bank needs to be 1 meg chips? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user