There was an infinite loop bug in the font manager startup in
2.7 global (depending on the fonts installed), but I had only
seen it in Japanese. Sounds related.


- eric


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Victor R. Volkman [mailto:vv@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 11:33 AM
> To: gum@egroups.com; gum@egroups.com
> Subject: [gum] Fatal behaviour on Windows 2000 redux
>
>
> You folks might remember this message thread from about four months
> ago. Well, its happened again. This time the problem is on a
> Windows 2000
> Professional machine (ie not Server) and it looks like it happened after
> the user enabled Korean language support. The symptom is the
> same: vstartup() fails to return
> and all Galaxy apps (including VRE) fail to work and simply consume
> infinite memory.
>
> We notice this behavior does not happen when we run products
> compiled with
> Galaxy C 2.7 Non-Global. It only happens with Galaxy C 2.7
> Global edition.
>
> We currently use Visual C++ 6.0 SP4. But that's not entirely relevant as
> the problems appear also on precompiled Galaxy utilities, such as VRE, so
> our compile
> environment is surely not to blame.
>
> Anybody out there using Windows 2000 with multi-language support
> and Galaxy
> C 2.7 Global Edition?
>
>
> >"Victor R. Volkman" wrote:
> > >
> > > We have a machine which cannot run any Galaxy-based programs.
> > > It is Windows 2000 Server (SP1) and we have Galaxy Global C
> > > package loaded. Our Galaxy apps fail and also Galaxy's own
> > > VRE will not work either.
> > >
> > > The symptom is this: the code steps into vstartup() and
> > > never returns. Check the system monitor and you see the
> > > memory usage going up and up -- 10MB, 20MB, 50MB, 100MB.
> > > I have to kill it at about 100MB of RAM usage.
> > >
> > > Any ideas GUMbys?
>
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