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The Phantom
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 360 |
WinVice & Windows 10 error
OK. I've dealt with this for a week or two and it's time to see if a solution is available.
WinVice 2.4 (win64 x64 mingw)
Anytime I double click a .d64, I get this error:
VICE Error!
Cannot startup logging system.
I hit enter (or click OK) and that is that. I haven't had any issues with Vice, just this silly error.
Any way to fix this? I can deal with hitting enter, but would rather Vice just boot up without my having to do so. |
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iAN CooG
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 3186 |
https://sourceforge.net/p/vice-emu/bugs/?source=navbar
open a bug report there |
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Moloch
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2924 |
After you tried a nightly build? Grab the latest here -> http://vice.pokefinder.org/
Your problem might be fixed already considering VICE 2.4 is four years old now - released in late 2012. (pre-Windows 10) |
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The Phantom
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 360 |
Thanks Ian. |
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The Phantom
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 360 |
I haven't checked for the latest stable version, thought 2.4 was the last. Laziness I guess. Doesn't happen with 2.4.11, so for sure it's the version I use. I could deal with it, but meh, I'll go find the latest build.
Thanks Jon :) |
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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578 |
Just downloaded WinVice 3 to check if this bug is gone, but nah, it still exists. After a bit of googling, the amount of helpful informations I could gather considering this slight annoyance is close to zero.
Oh and by the way, can't save settings neither.
+ a special bonus bug: if I'm dragging a .prg to Vice's window, it says it can't autostart specified file.
Windows 7 here, btw.
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Perplex
Registered: Feb 2009
Posts: 255 |
Nice screenshot trolling. |
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oziphantom
Registered: Oct 2014
Posts: 490 |
Try putting it somewhere other than Program Files, the folder has special permissions to stop virues/malware etc. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11350 |
i love how this bug was not reported, ever (and yes, its a permission problem, like oziphantom said) |
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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578 |
Quoting Groepazi love how this bug was not reported, ever
Well I would gladly report them, only if the project wasn't using that malware-ridden SourceForge ordeal.
Anyhow...
Quoting OziphantomTry putting it somewhere other than Program Files, the folder has special permissions to stop virues/malware etc.
Facepalming myself for not thinking of this yet... Probably as I avoid placing executables outside Program Files, but yes, this actually helped. Thanks! |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11350 |
Quote:malware-ridden SourceForge
*facepalm* |
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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578 |
Quote: Quote:malware-ridden SourceForge
*facepalm*
Facepalm indeed. You still living in the early 2000s?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#Project_hijackings_an..
I know people who unwillingly installed shit on their computers thanks to SF and their petty adware injections into hosted projects. This isn't just a hearsay, they openly admitted being malicious.
Granted, it's mostly the users' fault for not being cautious enough and clicking the next button blindly, but apart of those fishy ads all over the place that looked like download buttons, the site was somewhat reputable till then, so there was no reason to be overly suspicious.
All that crap started about 2013. For a while they were even straight up hosting a malware version of FileZilla, one of the most popular FTP clients out there.
I am aware that they replaced the management and now trying to act much more transparent, but as for me, it will take a long time till they regain my trust. I avoid the site lite plague and try to find alternative download options in case a default Google search directs me there. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11350 |
good story bro
however, none of that applies to VICE (no installer sf could rape) - or even using the bug tracker.
*facepalm* indeed. |
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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578 |
Ah I see, so avoiding sites broadly known for exploiting their users is facepalm material now? My bad, it seems I didn't got the memo *sigh*
Anyhow, since WinVice works fine from non-system partitions, I guess it's not even a bug, but rather something related to Windows' UAC settings? |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11350 |
its like avoiding the US because of slavery and NSA. but ok - each to his own.
and no, its clearly a bug - applications shouldnt write to the program directory, but to the user home directory. |
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soci
Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 479 |
If Windows then the one true way would be to store settings in registry and logging to event log ;) Ok, maybe not. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11350 |
whatever the windows maintainer decides to do :=) |
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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578 |
Quoting Groepazits like avoiding the US because of slavery and NSA. but ok - each to his own.
LOL. Well, I don't have the extra time nor the energy to clean shit smeared all over my computer, so for some reason (unusual, I know) I prefer it to stay ad- and malwareless, what the fuck this has to do with the US and slavery? :D I don't visit sites which have/had bad rep till they don't prove their trustability, as simple as that.
OK, I'll report this fucking bug. On SourceForge. Jesus. |
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soci
Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 479 |
Use the nightly builds which don't come from Sourceforge if you don't like it.
By the way Sourceforge was sold back in January and with that there were a few changes. The experimental installer "improvements" were stopped for good. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11350 |
i hate them more for their "improvements" they did to the ticket system than anything they did to installers of software i never used =P |
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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578 |
Quoting SociBy the way Sourceforge was sold back in January and with that there were a few changes after that. The experimental installer "improvements" was stopped for good.
Yeah and apparently now they do malware scan on all the hosted stuff too, but my approach is always "better safe than sorry". I am really afraid to lose or compromise important/confidential client data. Yep I understand that may seem paranoid, but it could easily affect my life quite negatively. |
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soci
Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 479 |
I can understand that. The easiest is to have several limited virtual machines for different purposes instead of putting everything in one basket. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11350 |
i simply make backups, and dont click on everything :) |
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Compyx
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 631 |
SF has indeed improved a lot since new management took over. All the ads are still annoying, but there seem to be browser plugins for that.
Switching to GitHub won't help either, since it looks like GitHub is having severe financial difficulties, so I expect some 'installers' appearing on GitHub before long.
And the nightlies sort of come from SF, at least the source ;) |
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Perplex
Registered: Feb 2009
Posts: 255 |
Quoting Compyx
Switching to GitHub won't help either, since it looks like GitHub is having severe financial difficulties, so I expect some 'installers' appearing on GitHub before long.
Sources? |
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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578 |
Quote: Quoting Compyx
Switching to GitHub won't help either, since it looks like GitHub is having severe financial difficulties, so I expect some 'installers' appearing on GitHub before long.
Sources?
Yes, I'm interested as well as I've heard exactly the opposite. AFAIK, GitHub was always cash-flow positive, and still is. There were some internal struggles due to corporate politics, but that didn't affected their profit. |
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Compyx
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 631 |
I think it was this article I read: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/16/12/16/1639222/building.. |
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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578 |
Quote: I think it was this article I read: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/16/12/16/1639222/building..
Oh right, totally forgot about this. Concerning, but I'd take that Bloomberg article with a grain of salt:
https://medium.com/@moritzplassnig/github-is-doing-much-better-..
Anyhow, personally I rely more on BitBucket, Atlassian seems like a more mature company than GitHub anyway. |
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Compyx
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 631 |
Thanks for that article.
It appears GitHub is doing much better than the Bloomberg article implies. I use GitHub myself for some small tools and code examples for some Codebase64 articles, but those are easily moved should shit hit the fan.
The private repositories of BitBucket sound interesting, gives me a place to host some projects before they're ready for public access. |
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Rastah Bar
Account closed
Registered: Oct 2012
Posts: 336 |
When I go to SID settings, I get the following error message in Windows 7
"An unexpected error occurred. Received signal 11 ()"
and Vice exits.
The log file shows:
Cannot open winio32.dll, trying direct PCI I/O access.
Cannot use direct PCI I/O access on Windows NT/2000/Server/XP/Vista/7/8/10.
Detecting libieee1284 ParSIDs.
An unexpected error occurred. Received signal 11 ().
Exiting...
Sound: Closing device `dx'
Any suggestions? |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11350 |
i think its trying to say "please delete this parsid stuff noone used for a decade" =P |
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Compyx
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 631 |
Can't produce this. When I select SID settings, nothing weird happens and I can quit VICE gracefully:
Cannot open winio32.dll, trying direct PCI I/O access.
Cannot use direct PCI I/O access on Windows NT/2000/Server/XP/Vista/7/8/10.
Detecting dll assisted PardSIDs.
Cannot open inpout32.dll.
Detecting direct I/O PardSIDs.
Cannot use direct I/O on Windows NT/2000/Server/XP/Vista/7/8/10.
Detecting ISA SSI2001 boards.
Cannot open inpout32.dll, trying direct ISA I/O access.
Cannot use direct I/O access on Windows NT/2000/Server/XP/Vista/7/8/10.
Sound: Closing device `dx'
Sound: Opened device `dx', speed 44100Hz, fragment size 2.9ms, buffer size 101ms
reSID: MOS8580, filter on, sampling rate 44100Hz - resampling, pass to 19845Hz
Exiting...
Sound: Closing device `dx'
Perhaps this has something to with parallel ports, my VM doesn't expose those.
Looks like another job for our Windows maintainer. |
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bepp
Registered: Jun 2010
Posts: 265 |
Necro-posting to this old thread if someone finds it on google (like I did).
I just started to get the "Cannot startup logging system" in Win10. It turns out I had a faulty entry in the setting for LogFileName, pointing to a folder/file that did not exist. Simply removing this line from vice.ini (which is stored in %appdata%\vice\3.1\vice.ini) did the trick for me. Maybe it can help someone that stumbles upon this. |
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Compyx
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 631 |
For VICE 3.3+ the vice config dir is in %appdata%/vice, we removed the "$major.$minor" subdir. So on my box it's C:\users\comp*x\appdata\roaming\vice.
The 'roaming' bit is currently hardcoded, if someone can explain why it's sometimes 'roaming' and sometimes 'local', or even 'LocalLow', our Windows maintainer would be much obliged :) |
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soci
Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 479 |
Use SHGetFolderPath with CSIDL_APPDATA instead of hardcoding the path within the profile directory. Or even SHGetKnownFolderPath if supporting XP is not a concern. |
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Stryyker
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 468 |
In relation to error: lib_stralloc(NULL) not allowed
Some of the recent issues with Windows 10 can be because of winpcap being installed and not detecting network interfaces. The same can be witnessed in Wireshark. Uninstall winpcap and use npcap instead. Alternatively a vice build without ethernet |
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Compyx
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 631 |
Quoting sociUse SHGetFolderPath with CSIDL_APPDATA instead of hardcoding the path within the profile directory. Or even SHGetKnownFolderPath if supporting XP is not a concern.
Thanks, will check out these functions. |
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Compyx
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 631 |
Quoting StryykerIn relation to error: lib_stralloc(NULL) not allowed
Some of the recent issues with Windows 10 can be because of winpcap being installed and not detecting network interfaces. The same can be witnessed in Wireshark. Uninstall winpcap and use npcap instead. Alternatively a vice build without ethernet
I had some suspicions the lib_stralloc(NULL) might be coming from a failure to enumerate network adapters via winpcap.
Of course on my box any Windows update doesn't trigger any pcap errors or UAC prompts, so it's a little hard to debug on my end. |
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Stryyker
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 468 |
I recently done a test in a fresh VM of Windows 10, 1809 as a standard users and r35878 seemed to work fine. No need to start as admin or any UAC issues. |
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Compyx
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 631 |
Nice, and I assume this was with npcap, disabling the tick mark in the installer for 'require admin' and enabling the tick mark for 'wpcap API compatibility'?
That worked for me at least.
If so, we need to update our docs to tell people to use npcap and not wpcap. |
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Stryyker
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 468 |
no npcap or wincap installed. I guess the VM exposes the NICs a little differently.
In a 2nd native install on a system with Realtek with Windows 10, 1809 it ran fine - no need for admin.
The 1st native install was on a system with Intel NIC using 23.5 Intel ProSet drivers using the new Windows 10 driver model. |
