[Coco] DriveWire frustrations

[Christopher Barnett Fox]

Aaron,

I'll fill in the details with the logs, etc. later this evening if time permits. Otherwise, will be later in the week.

If it matters, I've been trying to get this working either on an iMac (21.5" late 2013 model, running Yosemite currently, although also tested DW under Mavericks with similar results) with a Keyspan USA-19QW USB to serial adapter, or on an Intel NUC (model D54250) running any compatible flavor of Linux. If it would help retain the in-DriveWire browser capability by switching to an older distribution, I also have available a FitPC-2. Or, heck, even a Raspberry Pi Model B. On the latter machines, I've got generic Prolific 2303 adapters available.

Whatever combo of the above will get me the best possible DriveWire environment...

Thanks!

Christopher


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From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> on behalf of Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2015 2:19 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire frustrations

Odd, I test DriveWire on Ubuntu 12 without any issues once disabling the
browser, which doesn't work on some linuxes.

If you provide these logs or some bug reports I will see if anything can be
done.  The reports I get from most Linux users are that it works out of the
box or requires an extra parameter to the JVM to avoid an issue with SWT
and some GTK thing that changed after DW was written.  I've not heard of
any stability issues till now.
 On May 25, 2015 1:30 PM, "Christopher Barnett Fox" <cbfox01 at syr.edu> wrote:

> Steven,
>
> Are you using 32- or 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04? Are you using desktop, and
> running the DriveWire GUI, or are you running the Ubuntu server edition and
> running DW headless? I've only tried the OpenJDK 7 release available in the
> Ubuntu repositories. Issues I've had have been failure to launch
> altogether, the logs getting rapidly filled with Java exceptions, the
> built-in browser functionality doesn't work, lots of hangs or complete
> crashes while in use, etc. It's just generally so unreliable as to be
> unusable.
>
> Christopher
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> on behalf of Steven Hirsch <
> snhirsch at gmail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2015 10:17 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire frustrations
>
> On Sun, 24 May 2015, Christopher Barnett Fox wrote:
>
> > I've been really wanting to use DriveWire, but every time I dive into it
> > I run into trouble. On my Mac, it at least works occasionally, but is
> > unreliable with frequent hangs and crashes, and on Linux (multiple
> > distributions, both 32- and 64-bit), I cannot get DriveWire to launch at
> > all. Java exceptions ruin the fun.
>
>
> > So, what gives? What's the magic sauce to get this software to work? I
> > don't own any personal seats of Windows, so that's out, although from
> > what I've heard it sounds the most reliable DriveWire host.
>
>
> > Any decent, up-to-date documentation available on the best Linux config
> > and installation instructions?
>
> What sort of issues are you seeing?  In the past I had good luck running
> on Ubuntu 12.04 and currently host it on a little Seagate network
> Dockstar appliance under an Armel port of Debian.
>
> Whose Java have you tried?  Between OpenJDK, Oracle and IBM Java, I have
> to believe that one of them will cooperate.
>
>
>
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