Re: [Rpcemu] 0.8.9 freezing at shutdown

In article <3aa5a37852.old_coaster@old_coaster.yahoo.co.uk>, Tony Moore
<old_coaster@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 30 Mar 2012, Jim Lesurf <jcgl@audiomisc.co.uk> wrote:

> > I've continued to use 0.8.9 to write an article as a test, and overall
> > it has worked nicely so far.
> >
> > The main feedback I want to give at this point is as follows:
> >
> > When I try to shutdown the 'Risc PC' the icon depresses, but then the
> > emulation freezes.

> You don't say which RISC OS version you are using, nor the host OS.

RO 4.02 running on Xubuntu 11.10

> Here, RPCEmu0.8.9/RO4.39 and RPCEmu0.8.9/RO5.19 both run on a Win7 host,
> without problem. On neither system can I find a shutdown icon.

RO 4.02 offers me a box with a choice of "shutdown" or "cancel".

> I believe that the safest way of exiting either emulator is to press
> ctrl-shft-f12 and, when the 'computer is now ready to be switched off'.
> close the Windows container.

When I press ctrl-shft-f12 I get the above box offerring the choices I
describe. Doing a shutdown via the switcher does the same. Both freeze when
"shutdown" is selected. The icon goes to the 'pressed' state but I don't
get "ready to be switched off" replacing the choice I was offerred.

To make things a bit clearer I've put a screengrab at

http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/temp/freeze.jpeg

I've scaled this down a bit and made it a jpeg to reduce the size of
the file. It shows the box the emulator puts up when I do
shift-control-F12. As shown, it is just after I clicked on the
"shutdown" icon which you can see in its depressed state.

At that point nothing else happens. However the emulator mouse still
tries to follow the OS (Xubuntu) mouse around. And I can move the
OS mouse pointer outside the RPCEmu window and it works correctly.
But no mouse actions or keys affect what is then inside the emulator.
All I can do is close down the emulator by clicking on the close icon
on the Xfce/ROX window in which it is running.

I am wondering if it does close down further, but can't update the
display in the emulator window. However as reported earlier, one
CPU goes to 100 percent when the shutdown freezes, and stays that
way until I close the window and end the linux process.

Slainte,

Jim

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