From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi  Mon Sep 13 21:28:00 2010
Message-ID: <4C8ECE52.7010602@atari-source.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:22:26 -0400
From: Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.org>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100825 Thunderbird/3.1.3
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi
Subject: Re: [MiNT] 1.17 release
References: <218091.472142504-sendEmail@descaro> <4C8E69D2.8090602@nokturnal.pl> <op.vizj3b01ofd6j1@descaro.mshome.net> <AANLkTimU65mOOLs5MGkXKhBEPa7iB8nKHHTvRbuy+DPh@mail.gmail.com> <op.viznx0lwofd6j1@descaro.mshome.net>
In-Reply-To: <op.viznx0lwofd6j1@descaro.mshome.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0
Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi
Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi
X-original-sender: mduckworth@atari-source.org
Precedence: bulk
List-help: <mailto:ecartis@lists.fishpool.fi?Subject=help>
List-unsubscribe: <mailto:mint-request@lists.fishpool.fi?Subject=unsubscribe>
List-Id: <mint.lists.fishpool.fi>
X-List-ID: <mint.lists.fishpool.fi>
List-subscribe: <mailto:mint-request@lists.fishpool.fi?Subject=subscribe>
List-owner: <mailto:tjhukkan@fishpool.fi>
List-post: <mailto:mint@lists.fishpool.fi>

  On 9/13/10 4:45 PM, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> Am 13.09.2010, 22:31 Uhr, schrieb Mariusz Buras 
> <mariusz.buras@gmail.com>:
>
>> No, we're not talking about CTPCI here. Me and Paweł have removed our 
>> CTPCI
>> hardware some time ago. We're testing on ct60 only falcons.
>> The latest version of 1.17 just wouldn't shut down without crashing. 
>> This
>> fact was repeatedly posted here, but maybe it was thought that it was 
>> CTPCI
>> related, hence ignored ?
>
> Nothing is ignored, but without further information  any bug-report is 
> useless. What apps were running during shutdown? How did you shutdown 
> (taskmanager/other)? Did you terminate all apps before the shutdown? 
> Is there a message from MiNT? Does MiNT crash or one of the terminated 
> processes?
>
> I have an idea since quite some time but I don't get any information 
> on that issue. Just "It crashes". Well, great.
>
> I could reproduce a crash on aranym when I had top running in a 
> toswin-shell, and shut down using the taskmanager while top was still 
> running, but I cannot reproduce it anymore.
>
>
Isn't there some kind of reporting tool that will produce a list of auto 
progs, versions, settings, etc to assist in the bug report?  I vaguely 
recall sysinfo or something else providing such functionality.

Thanks,
Mark