Hello just installed the latest yam nightly from http://www.yam.ch/27.html and all the attending mui updates. Now when I start yam it blinks on and off the screen so fast I can barely see it happen! Snoopy doesn't show any errors in loading yam. last line in snoopy is yam :o.k. =open("env:mui/YAM.prefs", NEW) =[0x1AC4E2AC]

anyone else have problems with this version?


painter

Last edited by painter on 28-Mar-2007 at 09:55 PM.

@painter

I may be way out but here goes -

I just downloaded the March 27 compile and tried it. It loads
OK. I looked through the snoopy log and found these lines quite
early in loading. I've quoted a few around the point in question
to help with finding them:

0052 : ENV : FAIL = Lock("ENVARC:MultipleYAM",SHARED)
0053 : YAM : o.k. = Open("Work:Comms/YAM/YAM.info",OLD) = [0x1B63F4C8]
0054 : YAM : o.k. = Lock("env:mui/YAM.prefs",SHARED)
0055 : YAM : o.k. = Open("env:mui/YAM.prefs",OLD) = [0x1B63F4C8]
0056 : YAM : o.k. = Open("PROGDIR:.emailcache",OLD) = [0x1B63F4C8]
0057 : YAM : o.k. = Lock("env:mui/PublicScreens.iff",SHARED)
0058 : YAM : o.k. = Open("env:mui/PublicScreens.iff",OLD) = [0x1B63F4C8]

The mailer is doing a bit of wrapping here but note the OLD even though
the yam.prefs is written every time I exit YAM . I don't know if this will
help but you can try deleting env:mui/yam.prefs and the same in
DH0:Prefs/Env-Archive/MUI/

When next you try to load YAM a message may come up saying texteditor keybindings are incompatible so they have been temporarily reset to default etc.

Have you installed the latest mui classes?

Noel

@NoelFuller

installed all the latest mui classes. will try deleting thiose items.

painter

@painter

do you have codesets.library installed? (not sure if required under AOS4)

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do you have codesets.library installed? (not sure if required under AOS4)

It is.
But Yam dev throws out requesters regarding codesets.libarary and MUI indicating current versions needed (if lacking) before it will even start.
His black screen must be coming from something else.

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@Framiga

yes I have codesets.library. I tried those deletions and it made no difference.

@number6 I run yam on owrkbench pub scereen and what ahppens it pops up gives you the message about being a developer version and the you click ok and the yam splash window flicks in an out of existance. I can see that it doesnot show the bar for login password as usual bbefore it disappears.


painter

@number6

if he used a separated screen for YAM, probably deleting the "DH0:Prefs/Env-Archive/MUI/YAM.prefs" could help (like NoelFuller suggested)

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@painter

In case you have an MPEGA datatype installed, please disable this one and try again after a reboot. There exist MPEGA datatypes with a broken descriptor which wrongly detects PNG images as MPEG streams, which makes YAM quit immediately. A recent change to the image loading functions revealed this bug in the MPEGA descriptor. So far the only solution is to disable the MPEGA datatype completely.

To make sure the correct behaviour try to load ALL images in the Icons directory with MultiView. Each of these must correctly show up as an image.

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@painter

When did this behavior first become noticeable?
What have you installed since YAM dev last worked for you?

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@number6

nothing new installed since previous version of yam.

painter

@tboeckel
They all load fine in picshow haven't tried multiview.

painter

@painter

are you saying that the previous YAM2.5dev worked?

http://nightly.yam.ch/2007-03-26-dev/YAM25dev-AmigaOS4.lha

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@Framiga

Yes it worked fine. Just the pone I downloaded yesterday didn;'t work but of course I down loaded new because the time was up and to use yam I had to update.

painter

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have you copied the Icons folder also? there are some new icons inside required for the few latest versions..

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@painter

ok. Confirmed. I see it here too.
Reason I didn't catch it earlier, is that my dev version doesn't expire for a couple of weeks yet.
Latest, Tuesday, March 27, 2006 even with the complete icon package (2 more files) is not starting.

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@Framiga

yep copied all the icons

painter

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painter wrote: @tboeckel They all load fine in picshow haven't tried multiview. painter

Picshow showing them is not important. It may have it's own png decoder.

You should use multiview to check the icons, because multiview uses datatypes and if some thing is wrong with the datatypes, you can notice. The same flaw in datatypes can crash Yam.

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@number6

seen that Thore (one of the YAM dev) is reading this report, he/they will fix it.

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seen that Thore (one of the YAM dev) is reading this report, he/they will fix it.

Thanks.
Just to close this out, the two new icons were folder_trash and folder_trash_new.
Both were ok under multiview.

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@Framiga

A proper bug report in the YAM bug tracker would be better in any way.

Please don't expect that either Jens or me are going through all active forums just to look if someone has a problem with YAM.

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