The steps (cave: you need a boot CD or else you won't be able to reach WB anymore):
1) Open Workbench Prefs
2) Front Page: Change under "Options" "Update drawers automatically" to NO (NOT CHECKED)
3) Save
Now do a fast reboot...IPrefs will crash after the OS4 logo...always
The emergency workaround:
1) Boot into your boot CD
2) Copy "workbench.prefs" from your boot CD (SYS:Prefs/ENV-archive/sys/) to your HDD (same path)
Now that we (devs and community) already found lots of bugs, when can we (non-beta testers) expect a new update of AmigaOS4?
Re: BUG: IPrefs crash on boot with specific WBPrefs setting
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 6:57 pm
by nbache
Which hardware platform are you on?
Best regards,
Niels
Re: BUG: IPrefs crash on boot with specific WBPrefs setting
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 7:01 pm
by Raziel
nbache wrote:Which hardware platform are you on?
Best regards,
Niels
X1000
Re: BUG: IPrefs crash on boot with specific WBPrefs setting
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 7:08 pm
by nbache
Hmm. My X1000 more often than not doesn't get through a warm reboot, even without touching the WB settings.
My prime suspect has also been IPrefs, but I have to make some more tests to be sure. I was thinking maybe it didn't like my largeish resolution (2560×1600). What's yours?
Thanks for the log, I'll compare it to mine and see if I can deduce more and finally make a bug report.
Best regards,
Niels
Re: BUG: IPrefs crash on boot with specific WBPrefs setting
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 7:13 pm
by Raziel
nbache wrote:Hmm. My X1000 more often than not doesn't get through a warm reboot, even without touching the WB settings.
My prime suspect has also been IPrefs, but I have to make some more tests to be sure. I was thinking maybe it didn't like my largeish resolution (2560×1600). What's yours?
Thanks for the log, I'll compare it to mine and see if I can deduce more and finally make a bug report.
Best regards,
Niels
2560x1440 ARGB32 here with a RadeonHD 7750
If you need me to test something, just shout
Re: BUG: IPrefs crash on boot with specific WBPrefs setting
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 12:04 am
by tonyw
I can confirm this crash, but it happens here with 1920x1080, so I don't think it's resolution-related. On my machines, even a cold boot will crash, so the machine is unbootable without an alternative boot device.
It's clearly a null pointer crash. I'll raise a BZ against it.
BTW, I suggest saving the Prefs/Env-Archive/Sys/workbench.prefs under a different file name before crashing the machine. It will then be a simple matter of copying back the old prefs file after booting from another source.
BZ #10017 submitted.
Re: BUG: IPrefs crash on boot with specific WBPrefs setting
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 11:14 am
by nbache
Thanks, Tony.
I think I was mixing up this issue with a couple of similar ones, which may or may not be happening only in the beta, but are not connected with changing WB prefs (or any prefs, for that matter).
I'll keep investigating those (although of course it "never" happens while I am catching serial debug ).
Best regards,
Niels
Re: BUG: IPrefs crash on boot with specific WBPrefs setting
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 12:20 pm
by Raziel
@tonyw
Thank you
Re: BUG: IPrefs crash on boot with specific WBPrefs setting
Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2018 1:33 pm
by tonyw
Salassoo has fixed this problem with workbench.library V53.61.
I can confirm it is fixed.
Re: BUG: IPrefs crash on boot with specific WBPrefs setting
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 12:20 pm
by Amigo1
tonyw wrote:Salassoo has fixed this problem with workbench.library V53.61.