Re: [Rpcemu] 0.8.9 freezing at shutdown

> 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.

In RPCEmu0.8.9/RO 5.19, ctrl-shft-f12 leads to a window saying that 'the
computer is now ready to be switched off' and gives the single option to
'Restart'. Presumably the OS has allowed running applications to quit,
so that closing the emulator window, at that point, is safe.

However, in RPCEmu0.8.9/RO 4.39 - my apologies, I now see that I was
mistaken in my previous post - ctrl-shft-f12 leads to a window giving
the options Off/Restart/Shutdown/Cancel. It is clicking Shutdown, which
leads to 'the computer is now ready to be switched off' so, in itself,
ctrl-shft-f12, doesn't put the machine in a safe state for its window to
be closed. I suppose that the same would apply to RO 4.02.

> To make things a bit clearer I've put a screengrab at
>
> http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/temp/freeze.jpeg

[snip]

> 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.

[snip]

> I am wondering if it does close down further

If RO 4.02 is similar to RO 4.39, it should lead to 'the computer is now
ready to be switched off', so it seems that there _is_ a problem.

This issue with the freeze on shutdown is a known problem and was first reported back in January; it is only found when the "Reduce CPU Usage" option is enabled.

At that time I posted:

  "I can confirm this is a fault with RPCEmu. I understand what causes the problem, and I will see if I can include a fix for the next
release."

This is still true now.

Matthew