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From: archetyp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph R Pickert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Macminix: Crashes...help...
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Date: 6 Nov 90 19:12:54 GMT
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worrall@brahms.udel.edu (Robert T Worrall) writes:

>Well, I seem to have a popular problem.  I can't get Macminix stabilized on my
>system.  I am running Macminix on a IIci 4/105 (6.0.7).  The problem is very
>simple,  All I have to do is boot Macminix and wait.  Eventually it will 
>crash with illegal instruction error.  If I am in multifinder it I get the
>unexpectedly quit dialog about 50% of the time and a frozen mouse the other
>times.  If I am in unifinder the mouse just freezes. Often I can work with Minix
>for a while with no problems, it just seems to crash whenever.  Especially 
>when it has idle time.  I have adusted the stack space to several (larger)
>values with no change, as well as it's MF partition.  Macminix is great when
>it is running, but I just can't manage to keep it that way.  Any suggestions
>are requested, I am becoming frustrated.  Oh yea, no inits were loaded when
>I was making the above observations.

Since I just spent entire evening running MacMINIX on a IIci that
was running system 6.0.5, and since other people on other machines seem
to have problems with 6.0.7, I can guess there is a 6.0.7 incompatabilty.
Will someone who is crashing under 6.0.7 please try 6.0.5 and send me
some mail.