Subj : VDM ViaMail
To   : Doug Hood
From : Chris Martin
Date : Mon Apr 01 2002 09:26 am

Once upon a time, out on MARS.

While reading the mail, wispering this:

DH> I'm almost for positive now that ViaMail is the culprit
DH> on this "General Fault" error I'm getting on Nebeaux.  It's
DH> highly frustrating since it takes down the entire system
DH> with it.  Well, actually, that's not accurate.  And I'm
DH> ahead of myself here.

VM isn't the culprit, sorry, See below..

DH> I'm running ViaMail to handle Nebeaux's Fido feed.  It's
DH> been working really well while I had it on it's own DOS box
DH> in the corner, but I recently shuffled it into a Virtual
DH> DOS Machine (VDM) on Snoopy running Warp3 with fixpack29
DH> and LANtastic for OS/2.  ViaMail tosses mail to a phone
DH> line through a Courier external modem every hour on the
DH> hour and will work for several hours before it runs into
DH> this "General Fault" white box and that's when Snoopy
DH> stops doing anything except updating the little clock in
DH> the corner.  As soon as I choose "Retry" or "Return Error
DH> message to Program", the error disappears and ViaMail goes
DH> into a flurry of activity.  I then get several more hours
DH> of production out of it before the next "General Fault"
DH> takes the system out.

DH> Snoopy is also keeping three more VDMs running at the same
DH> time that ViaMail is running.  ViaMail is on Node3 through
DH> the serial port, Nodes8, 9, & 10 are all running "telnet"
DH> ports thanks to Ray Gwinn's SIO on Snoopy at the same time.
DH> Node10 grabs my UseNet newsgroups and tosses e-mail through
DH> FXUUCICO to my ISP.  When Snoopy recovers from the "General
DH> Fault", node10 goes into a flurry of activity also.

If you are not running SIO's comm driver and Fossil i/f, for this
modem port, you should. I had a similar situation that was caused
by a faulty modem, that would lockup on an ATZ, every once in a
while. Replaced the modem, no more problems..
If the node does NOT sut down, upon clicking the OK/Continue
button, then VM is not causing the Fault. If it was, the VDM
would terminate.

DH> I was just curious if there is anyone out that that has run
DH> into something similar to this.

Yup, and took a new modem. I run 3 nodes, with WC4.2m10, and VM
v1.60d,
under Warp3 fp42, on a 486, with 2 modem lines (one private) and
a local node. Use Ray Guinn's SIO also..

Chris Martin, The MARS Station BBS

 * WCE 2.1G1/2419 * ... If it's fixed, don't break it!

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