Workbench crash

[LeCaravage]

Context : Amiga KS1.3 512/512

Hello,

My Workbench used to work fine, but I have an error and I can't understand it.

Any help ?

[malko]

Did you try to type "why" and press return on the command prompt after the failure ?

[Nor Bert]

Show us the startup-sequence

[LeCaravage]

Startup-Sequence :


c:SetPatch >NIL: ;patch system functions
Addbuffers df0: 10
cd c:
echo "A500/A2000 Workbench disk. Release 1.3.2 version 34.28*N"
Sys:System/FastMemFirst ; move C00000 memory to last in list
BindDrivers

Assign Blitz2: Sys:Blitz
Assign Blizlibs: sys:Blitz/Blitzlibs

SetClock load ;load system time from real time clock (A1000 owners should
;replace the SetClock load with Date
FF >NIL: -0 ;speed up Text
resident CLI L:Shell-Seg SYSTEM pure add; activate Shell
resident c:Execute pure
mount newcon:
;
failat 11
run execute s:StartupII ;This lets resident be used for rest of script
wait >NIL: 5 mins ;wait for StartupII to complete (will signal when done)
;
SYS:System/SetMap usa1 ;Activate the ()/* on keypad
path ram: c: sys:utilities sys:system s: sysrefs add ;set path for Workbench
if exists s:user-startup
execute s:user-startup
endif
LoadWB delay ;wait for inhibit to end before continuing
endcli >NIL:


StartupII :


resident c:Resident pure
resident c:List pure ;pre-load LIST and CD
resident c:CD pure
resident c:Mount pure ;the next 3 are loaded for speed during startup
resident c:Assign pure
resident c:Makedir pure
;make IF, ENDIF, ELSE, SKIP, ENDSKIP, and ECHO resident if
;you use scripts much, and can afford the ram.
;also make Failat, WAIT, and ENDCLI resident if you use IconX a lot
makedir ram:t
assign T: ram:t ;set up T: directory for scripts
makedir ram:env ; set up ENV: directory
assign ENV: ram:env
makedir ram:clipboards ;set up CLIPS: assign
assign CLIPS: ram:clipboards
mount speak: ;just mounting doesn't take much ram at all
mount aux:
mount pipe:
resident Mount remove ;if you have enough ram, keep these resident
resident Assign remove ;by removing these lines
resident Makedir remove
;
break 1 C ;signal to other process its ok to finish


user-startup :

;BEGIN DOpus
ASSIGN DOpus: "WB13:Utils/Disk"
;END DOpus
; Following lines added by Personal Paint
Assign >NIL: PPAINT: EXISTS
If WARN
Assign PPAINT: WB13:Utils/PPaint
EndIf
; End of lines added by Personal Paint

[Galahad/FLT]

Isn't error code 20 when the file is no longer executable?

I.e. its been corrupted likely, copy "addbuffers" from another source to restore it.

[LeCaravage]

Originally Posted by Galahad/FLT

Isn't error code 20 when the file is no longer executable?

I.e. its been corrupted likely, copy "addbuffers" from another source to restore it.

Just tried and doesn't work :'(

Btw, any way to reinstall WB without deleting all the user apps ?

[shelter]

I see no error. Comment out addbuffers and see where that takes you.
echo "A500/A2000 Workbench disk. Release 1.3.2 version 34.28*N"
And what's that *N at the end?

[malko]

Originally Posted by shelter

[...] echo "A500/A2000 Workbench disk. Release 1.3.2 version 34.28*N" And what's that *N at the end?

"*" is the "escape sequence" introduction character, so "*N" means : move cursor next line

[malko]

Did the "why" command gave you any information ?

[shelter]

Originally Posted by malko

"*" is the "escape sequence" introduction character, so "*N" means : move cursor next line

Oh I see, well it obviously doesn't come that far anyway.

[shelter]

Originally Posted by Galahad/FLT

Isn't error code 20 when the file is no longer executable?

I.e. its been corrupted likely, copy "addbuffers" from another source to restore it.

I found this in another thread.
The standard AmigaDOS error codes are:

OK (Code 0 ): Program has been executed successfully.
WARN (Code 5 ): just a WARNING, for example with invalid parameters.
ABORT (Code 8 ): CTRL-C - Aborted by user.
ERROR (Code 10): non-critical error.
FAIL (Code 20): CRITICAL error, for example not enough memory.

[LeCaravage]

It's like it doesn't found the commands in path C:

[shelter]

Originally Posted by LeCaravage

It's like it doesn't found the commands in path C:

If you type "assign" at the prompt, what do you get?
Or sys:c/assign
Or dir sys:

[LeCaravage]

Somehow this pb gives me the opportunity to learn cool tips about Workbench system and Amiga Dos.

The C folder is not empty and here what I get when typing "assign" :

[shelter]

Well, this one got me, I have no idea unfortunately.
Can you type "cd C:" at the prompt, does it take you to C: or does that fail too?

[LeCaravage]

Originally Posted by shelter

Well, this one got me, I have no idea unfortunately.
Can you type "cd C:" at the prompt, does it take you to C: or does that fail too?

When I type "cd C:" it works. Very strange indeed.

[shelter]

Very... maybe setpatch got updated and broke something?
Try commenting that out.

[LeCaravage]

Originally Posted by shelter

Very... maybe setpatch got updated and broke something?
Try commenting that out.

Same error with setpatch deactivated.

[LeCaravage]

Anyway @all thanks for your help. Learn a lot about WB and Dos.
Will resign myself to reinstall WB.

[rutra80]

When you type wrong number for Addbuffers it says for example:

addbuffers df0: foo
Invalid char 'f' in number

Your original error message is a corrupted version of such message, like output got altered by some escape characters or something.

Is your installation a Windows directory? Maybe SS got converted to some other codepage (spaces not being ASCII spaces) or something... Did you edit it in some Windows text editor? Coding is supposed to be Unix (LF) ANSI