Re: GUPP1.01 PROBLEM [?]

[nathan@parka.winternet.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <Pine.SGI.3.91.960715150406.11854A-100000@umbc7.umbc.edu>,
Robert Rivkin  <rrivkin@umbc.edu> wrote:
>After deactivating FixFontManager6.01 and installing GUPP1.01, my rom03 
>experienced the following:

>I opened several windows in Finder, but then was unable to close them.  I 
>rebooted several times, same thing happened.  I could shut down from the 
>menu bar SPECIAL, but could not close opened windows.  

   Very odd. I've been able to do that just fine on my system.  [Even
when I've got the Finder in a half-hosed state while I track down a
pointer bug in it... dang, that #*&# bug is annoying to find.  I keep
disassembling chunks to find that a bad pointer passed in from
elsewhere is the problem. I will be most pleased to nail that bug and
release GUPP 1.02]

   Do you have a large selection of inits/das installed, especially
ones that play around with 1) windowing, 2) keyboard interceptions, 3)
finder stuff? If so, try disabling a large chunk of them and leaving
GUPP in-- sometimes the adding of another program can change the load
order of things. Changing the memory allocations can hide or expose
bugs in other things.

   [Or with a ROM 3, having Segfaulter installed and in normal/paranoid
can cause crashes bank FD because of a windowing manager bug; thanks
to James Sanford for reporting this and finding the parallel fix from
the ROM 01 patch in GUPP 1.0-1.01.]

Nathan Mates
--
<*> Nathan Mates http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~nathan/      <*>
# What are the facts? Again and again and again-- what are the _facts_?
# Shun wishful thinking, avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors
# think-- what are the facts, and to how many decimal places?  -R.A. Heinlein