Conference hydra::amiga_v1

    
    Although I don't remember a freeze bug in Mach-II 2.5 I wouldn't
    recommend using Mach.
    All versions of it showed more or less serious bugs.
    
    Regards,
    
    <CB>

    
    I seem to remember Mach grabbing the audio device whenever it needed it
    for it's beep.  If another program politely asked for it, Mach would
    freeze solid.  I ditched it in favor of QMouse (only 3K!) which is very
    well behaved.
    
    Ed.

    I'm running ARP 1.3 without Mach or VirusX, and I've had VT200 1.1A
    lock up occasionally.  It doesn't happen a lot, and when it does it
    always seems to be when the line is little noisy.  The "Reset Term"
    option in the "Utilities" menu usually unjams it. 

    - Cliff

Re -1:  The reset term option is not posible as I have NO control over the 
	machine ( frozen mouse pointer ).  I'll give Qmouse a try.

Thanks,
	Dick

    re .all
    
    same happens to me. I'm running a 'STANDART' configuration:
    A2000B, 1 meg, DF0, DF1, 51/4" DF2, Omti 2256 with A.L.F. V1.6 and
    RD53, FFS, KS1.3, WB1.3, NO mouse-tools, VT200 V1.1a
    
    The system hangs when i got a noisy 1200 Bd line, a Term-Reset solve
    this.
    But, once or twice during a 3-5 hour terminal-session the mouse
    pointer will be 'frozen' . Only a <CTRL-A-A> 'helps'.

    
    Ralf
    ====
    

24 hours with QMOUSE15 and no problems so far.  Is it possible that we could
also be looking at a virus of some type. VIRUSX 3.1 (???) doesn't show 
anything regarding the hard drive, just floppies. XOPER doesn't show any other
tasks out of the ordinary but wouldn't it be possible to attach something to a
resident program?

	Dick

    
    Re: .6
    
    I don't think you're infected. Let XOper check all the Reset and
    the KickTag pointer(s). If thoose point to 0, everything should
    be OK (for the current generation of viruses).
    HD's are also immune to BootBlock type of viruses.
    The only known link virus uses a pointer, too.
    
    Regards,
    
    <CB>
    

I have had problems with this sort of thing: hanging the machine with errant
and severe line noise. It seems there is a known bug in the serial.device and
a new version should be available before too long... along with other updates.

	-SES

re: .8
    Many thanks for this piece of news. Software can be fixed, hardware
    intermittants at a frequency of days are next to impossible to find.
    
	Thanks.
		Dick

    I don't know if your problem could be as simple as one I used to
    have with a VT100 and modem.  Sometimes the line noise would happen
    to hit the XOFF (^S) character to the terminal not the host.  Therefore
    the keyboard would be XOFFed and the WAIT light LED would come on.
    The only way to clear it was to reset the terminal.  This might
    not be your problem, but it is worth a check.

re: .10
	No, it's a lot more serious than XOFF.  This is a complete lockup,
no keyboard control (except ctrl amiga amiga ) and no mouse pointer 
control.  
	Dick

I run SMOKEY with MACH and VIRUSX, and I do not experience the hang problem
you describe.  I don't recall what versions I am running.  I believe all
are latest and greatest version except smokey, where I stopped with the
last one I liked.

	Paul

    
    Sssssss,
    
    another hangup. Here's the history:
    
    Normal Boot
    active tasks: initial CLI, one NEwSHELL, VirusX32, Amiga-Clock
    (digital2-type)
    Connected drives: DF0: with Boot_disk, DF1: & DF2: (empty)
    DH0: (RD53 with Omti 5527 and ALF V1.6)
    run VT200
    ATD blah, blah
    Login, set def, mc kermit, set file text, server
    pull down to: Kermit send file
    Transfer begins.............
    Ralf decided to do some other things with the Amiga:
     Select utilities, iconify VT200
     doing: Copy Dir and Rename....
    Klick the Smokey-Icon twice
    the file transfer window appears with a running transfer
    I try to move the title-bar a bit downwards
    
    BUMMMM the mouse-pointer hangs
    3 seconds later the GURU greets with the following message:
    	#81000005.00C0367E
    and the system rebooted itself
    
    Any comments ?
    
    Ralf
    ====

    
    
    
     The Vt200.doc that I have warns of "Bugs" during kermit file transfers
    while iconified.
    
     Perhaps this is one of them..
    
    Brien