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Re: Getting Executor to work...



>>>>> "TC" == TC Lai <tclai@ucla.edu> writes:

    TC> Again the triumph of having hacker blood running swiftly
    TC> through one's veins...  Thanks to the neat-o debug switch, I
    TC> traced the failure to load (as noted in an earlier post of
    TC> mine) to a hang caused by an attempt to initalize the sound
    TC> manager.  I don't know why it died (sound-blaster compatible
    TC> built in sound system...) but once I set the switch to
    TC> -nosound, I was blown off my feet by the uncanny mac-ness now
    TC> running off my notebook.  This is MUCH better (in theory) than
    TC> a PowerBook...

    TC> Of course, now it's almost 2am.  Thank god I'm on Spring
    TC> Break.  Now to see what else breaks...

What version of Executor do you have?  1.99q12 should be much better
about not hanging on startup due to sound problems.  If 1.99q12 hangs
for you, does ctrl-break generate a traceback?  If so, I can use that
to figure out where it's hanging.

-Mat


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