alpha vm endless loop at bootstrap?

[Brian Rice]

It's a false alarm. I suggest working from totally clean images. In  
such recent images, the Windows path-reading problem does not  
manifest, so I don't know why else there should be a problem. Lee  
cannot reproduce any of this on his platform (linux/x86 and possibly  
ppc).

On Jun 1, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Brian Rice wrote:

> Ouch! I am so dead-wrong on this. It's happening on my new  
> bootstraps on any platform. :( I'm iterating through recent patches  
> now to see which one is the cause.
>
> On Jun 1, 2005, at 11:23 AM, Brian Rice wrote:
>
>
>> Oddly, it seems to be Windows-only, and independent of the  
>> compiler used. Someone please confirm this, as my WinXP box is  
>> still not functioning right. I'd like to get this fixed before  
>> incrementing Slate's version again.
>>
>> On Jun 1, 2005, at 8:12 AM, Bill Sun wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Yes, this is also reported in the "directory bug in
>>> Windows" thread, starting from my reply.  There's also
>>> a stack trace report by one of the users.
>>>
>>> --- Lendvai Attila <Attila.Lendvai at netvisor.hu> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> I've tried to compile the alpha vm + image on
>>>> cygwin, gcc 3.3.3 but
>>>> after printing the please wait it may take a while
>>>> message, it ends up
>>>> in an endless loop. I was waiting for minutes and no
>>>> file was loaded,
>>>> just eating up the cpu and doing visibly nothing...
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas? Other encounters?
>>>>
>>>> - 101
>