[TRLog] TRLog Program Lockups

[Mike Tessmer]

In the Feb 2001 Sprints I started having lockup problems much like Phil has
described.  The only way out was to kill power on the computer and then
start over.  The first time it happened I reinstalled an earlier version
which at the time seemed to cure things.  But the following weekend the same
thing happened....and continued to happen from time to time throughout.
Tried different versions.....nothing helped.  There was no
pattern......sometimes it would lock up shortly after starting and sometimes
it would go for hours.

My first thought was RF getting into something and for a while I thought I
had stumbled on something with placement of the keyboard.  But this theory
was soon dashed.....and I have had absolutely no RF issues with other
programs on this computer.

This past Feb prior to the sprints I was messing around trying different
things, doing "test" contests trying to make it lock up.....which it would
eventually.  However on one of those lockups something appeared on the
screen about a "stack overflow" something or other (I'm a computer lid...)
This was the first time I had ever seen this.  I remembered something about
CONFIG.SYS (?) and a line that says STACKS = xxxxx.  I increased this (and
I'm sorry, I don't remember what the original value was or what I increased
it to....that computer is 200 miles away....) and I had zero problems for
the duration of both the phone and cw sprints.  I'm not 100% certain this
cured things due to the random nature of the lockups but no problems since
in Sprints, PACC, MnQSO, and some others leads me to think I'm on to
something.  I may try some CQ-M next weekend to see what happens.

This is a long winded reply for a simple suggestion but I thought some
history might be of benefit.


73, Mike K9NW



-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Goetz <N6ZZ@zianet.com>
To: trlog@contesting.com <trlog@contesting.com>
Date: Friday, May 03, 2002 11:00 PM
Subject: [TRLog] TRLog Program Lockups


>During various contests over the past few months, TRLog has frozen up on
>me a couple of times.  This has happened with no particular set of
>circumstances nor keystrokes that I'm aware of.  Since the computer in
>the shack is very old, I've been inclined to blame it.  However, in a
>recent discussion with K5OT, he mentioned that the same thing has
>happened to him a few times.  The program just freezes, and no amount of
>pounding on the escape key, Control-Break, or even the time-honored
>three-finger salute (Cntl-Alt-Delete) makes any difference.  The only
>solution seems to be to turn off the computer and then turn it back on.
>
>Has anybody else on the TR reflector had similar experiences?  If so,
>please advise when you first noticed the situation and whether you've
>been able to identify anything that might have been the cause.
>
>Thanks!
>
>73,
>
>Phil, N6ZZ
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