Tired of Running Haiku Under VMs

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Hi Lengyel,

If an older version of Haiku worked for you ( ie: you had tracker up ). Then the code was changed & now not working for you. You should bring this up in the mailing list because that is where you’ll get responses from the Haiku coders.

Without log file it’ll be harder to figure out what is going wrong.

I have to test the newer Haiku & see if it gives me any problems. So, I can see if it affects me also or isolated to only “some” people having issues.

For diagnosis; you need to provide more information:

  1. Motherboard chipset?
  2. Processor?
  3. RAM Total? ( you said 1GB RAM )
  4. SATA or PATA? ( you said SATA )
  5. Video Card?

Example:

  1. Nvidia Nforce2 chipset 2) Athlon XP 3) 1GB RAM 4) PATA 5) ATI Radeon 8500 6) ps2 keyboard & mouse

Try selecting all the safe mode options & see if that works out.

And best to use ps2 mouse & keyboard which work better.

Also, if you have ( wait till I test latest Haiku image first ):

  1. pata drive, try installing & using that
  2. older video card; give that a try too

In BIOS, disable Plug & Play OS ( maybe go through & disable some other things too; ie: onboard sound, onboard network, usb, acpi - use apm, etc. ).

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I just tested newer Haiku image, version 22380.

1st Boot
Deskbar & Tracker crashed. I only had a blue background and a terminal window.

2nd Boot
Everything started up fine ( tracker, deskbar & terminal ), blue background with HAIKU logo & 3 desktop icons. Ran a few programs without issues.

3rd Boot
Tracker crashed on me.

I’d say newer Haiku is not that stable anymore ( too many changes going on to the code ). Anyone else want to confirm; boot Haiku a couple of times & see if deskbar &/or tracker crash?

Edit:
I re-copied the files to my partition & tried again & Tracker was crashing on start up.

A quick fix; in Terminal. type “cd /boot/beos/system”, "./Tracker &"
and that should start up tracker for you.

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Could you please post a bug report at http://dev.haiku-os.org about this issues with back trace output (type “bt” in debug window).
This should help improving stability of Tracker/Deskbar a lot!
Thanks!

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Sure Diver. Done.

Funny thing is that I restarted my computer and it took a few boots to get Tracker to crash ( about eight boots and it crashed twice ).

Anyone else having a similar issue should add their comment ( & attach back trace info ) to the bug report I filed here:

http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/1509

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Dual-core or Dual-proc?

Sounds like the kind of flakiness you might experience with multi-threading and race conditions on an SMP machine…

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For me, it is single core Athlon XP 2400+ processor on Nforce2 chipset board.

But I believe those with multi core are experiencing Tracker crashing more frequently or all the time.

Looks like Marcus might have the same problem.
“The blue desktop appears, and I can enter Team Monitor using Ctrl+Alt+Del, but Tracker doesn’t seem to work.”

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Yes, and it appears it was fixed:

:slight_smile:

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Sounds like this is a bigger issue somewhere.

Please add any additional comments you can provide to this bug:

http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/1512

It might be helpful if each person who experiences this issue were to list their hardware configuration, and where they got the haiku build they’re testing (not to mention which rev works/doesn’t work).