Unable to launch muCommander on Windows XPSP2

[TvE]

Hi there,
I am trying to launch muCommander 0.8.1 (nightly build) on a Windows XP running JRE 1.5.0_09

I am getting the error message

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Application popup: Windows - No Disk : Exception Processing Message c0000013 Parameters 75b6bf9c 4 75b6bf9c 75b6bf9c

Creating a system environment variable "JAVA_HOME" pointing to the jre location makes no difference - I still get the same message

[maxence]

Hi TvE,
Ugh, that dreaded popup dialog again. For your information, this dialog is triggered by Java/Windows when the app is trying to access a drive that has no media in it, such as a floppy or CD/DVD drive.

I have a few questions for you if you don't mind :

1) Does the same dialog popup with muCommander 0.8 ?

2) How many times do you get this dialog on startup, just once ?

3) Do you also get this popup dialog after the app is started ? If yes, can you specify what you did to trigger it ?

A temporary workaround would be to disable the floppy and/or CD/DVD drive on the computer if you're not using it. I think you can do that by right-clicking on the drive's icon in Windows Explorer.

Thanks,
Maxence

[TvE]

Hi TvE,
Ugh, that dreaded popup dialog again. For your information, this dialog is triggered by Java/Windows when the app is trying to access a drive that has no media in it, such as a floppy or CD/DVD drive.

I have a few questions for you if you don't mind :

1) Does the same dialog popup with muCommander 0.8 ?

2) How many times do you get this dialog on startup, just once ?

3) Do you also get this popup dialog after the app is started ? If yes, can you specify what you did to trigger it ?

A temporary workaround would be to disable the floppy and/or CD/DVD drive on the computer if you're not using it. I think you can do that by right-clicking on the drive's icon in Windows Explorer.

Thanks,
Maxence

This morning I am capable of launching muCommander on both my Windows XP machines (They have been rebooted a couple of times since this error report that might influence the performance)

The Thinkpad X60 (that have no drives) can now launch both 0.8 and the nightly build.

The HP Compaq d530 CMT (that DO have optical+floppy drives) can now launch the nightly build but 0.8 still throws the error.
- It does so only once and I can hear a Click from one of the (floppy?) drive right after launching the app...




There might be something else wrong (this should probably go to a new thread) I am unable to activate the menus using the standard Windows way. EG You have underlined the F in the File menu and that indicates that one should be capable of displaying this menu by hitting ALT-F on the keyboard (unfortunately a place where Mac OS X is worse keyboard-shortcut-friendly-wise than Windows ).

I expect this to be working in an application that so heavily enforces the use of the keyboard

PS.: Both my PC's and both the nightly build and 0.8 build acts this way

[maxence]

There might be something else wrong (this should probably go to a new thread) I am unable to activate the menus using the standard Windows way. EG You have underlined the F in the File menu and that indicates that one should be capable of displaying this menu by hitting ALT-F on the keyboard (unfortunately a place where Mac OS X is worse keyboard-shortcut-friendly-wise than Windows ).

I expect this to be working in an application that so heavily enforces the use of the keyboard

PS.: Both my PC's and both the nightly build and 0.8 build acts this way

This bug has been fixed in the current nightly : http://www.mucommander.com/cgi-bin/bugz ... .cgi?id=13

Thanks for your reports!
Maxence

[TvE]

And I can report back, that it now works as expected on my machine - thanx (!)

[maxence]

Great, thanks for confirming!

[maxence]

Hi again TvE,

Back to your original problem, the 'No disk' bug was added to Bugzilla:
http://www.mucommander.com/cgi-bin/bugz ... .cgi?id=25

A fix for it has just been committed. This bug was also fixed by Sun in Java 1.6 b55 but our fix should patch the problem on previous versions of Java.

Unfortunately, I'm unable to reproduce the problem so I can't validate the fix. Could you please grab the latest nightly build and verify that you the error dialog doesn't show up anymore under Java 1.5 ? I'd be very grateful!

Many thanks,
Maxence

[TvE]

I currently have installed 0.8.1 (the exe files date is 11 oct 2007, but my own record tells me I installed the nightly build on 8'th oct...!) and that version does now NOT give med the error.

My java version is now reported as 1.5.0_09.

I do not know if this is a newer java version as before since this stuff is automatically installed without my knowledge (PC in a big company

Now I installed the 0.8.2 nightly build (file date 28 feb 2008) and the alert is still not showing.
I am not able to conclude if there have been a change, so I'll just be happy that the alert is gone

[maxence]

OK, thanks a lot for confirming! I'll consider this bug fixed for now, and we'll see if it ever shows up again (hopefully not).

Cheers,
Maxence