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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Crashing all the way to Kickstart
Message-ID: <15700@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 89 02:56:57 GMT
References: <11722@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <11722@gryphon.COM> rickf@pnet02.cts.com (Rick Flower) writes:
>I also get this same occurrance on my A1000!! Usually it happens when I'm
>programming in assembly (most of the time!) and forget some minor (at least I
>think so!) instruction and KABOOM!  Next thing I know it looks like it has
>completely hung.. Sometimes it will Guru then just hang (press Ctrl
>Amiga-Amiga) and other times it will just plain hang (mouse freezes) and when
>I do press Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga, it throws up the kickstart screen...

This has been happening to me chronically since I installed 1.3 on my
A1000, and I've heard other complaints of the same problem.  It seems
that I almost never see a "normal" crash anymore.  Naturally, a lot of
this is due to the fact that over time I've weeded out the programs and
techniques that cause problems for me.  Still, when I do have problems,
(most recently with chip memory fragmentation caused by two programs that
didn't like topaz 11) I almost always see the above symptoms rather than
a 'task held' requester or even an immediate guru.

Any clues as to what might be causing these problems?

-- 
Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP