I'm almost for positive now that ViaMail is the culprit
on this "General Fault" error I'm getting on Nebeaux. It's
highly frustrating since it takes down the entire system
with it. Well, actually, that's not accurate. And I'm
ahead of myself here.

I'm running ViaMail to handle Nebeaux's Fido feed. It's
been working really well while I had it on it's own DOS box
in the corner, but I recently shuffled it into a Virtual
DOS Machine (VDM) on Snoopy running Warp3 with fixpack29
and LANtastic for OS/2. ViaMail tosses mail to a phone
line through a Courier external modem every hour on the
hour and will work for several hours before it runs into
this "General Fault" white box and that's when Snoopy
stops doing anything except updating the little clock in
the corner. As soon as I choose "Retry" or "Return Error
message to Program", the error disappears and ViaMail goes
into a flurry of activity. I then get several more hours
of production out of it before the next "General Fault"
takes the system out.

Snoopy is also keeping three more VDMs running at the same
time that ViaMail is running. ViaMail is on Node3 through
the serial port, Nodes8, 9, & 10 are all running "telnet"
ports thanks to Ray Gwinn's SIO on Snoopy at the same time.
Node10 grabs my UseNet newsgroups and tosses e-mail through
FXUUCICO to my ISP. When Snoopy recovers from the "General
Fault", node10 goes into a flurry of activity also.

I was just curious if there is anyone out that that has run
into something similar to this.

Smiley

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* Origin: Nebeaux Nerdinski 1:105/55 Portland, OR 503.236.0214 (1:105/55)

Once upon a time, out on MARS.

While reading the mail, wispering this:

I'm almost for positive now that ViaMail is the culprit
on this "General Fault" error I'm getting on Nebeaux. It's
highly frustrating since it takes down the entire system
with it. Well, actually, that's not accurate. And I'm
ahead of myself here.

VM isn't the culprit, sorry, See below..

I'm running ViaMail to handle Nebeaux's Fido feed. It's
been working really well while I had it on it's own DOS box
in the corner, but I recently shuffled it into a Virtual
DOS Machine (VDM) on Snoopy running Warp3 with fixpack29
and LANtastic for OS/2. ViaMail tosses mail to a phone
line through a Courier external modem every hour on the
hour and will work for several hours before it runs into
this "General Fault" white box and that's when Snoopy
stops doing anything except updating the little clock in
the corner. As soon as I choose "Retry" or "Return Error
message to Program", the error disappears and ViaMail goes
into a flurry of activity. I then get several more hours
of production out of it before the next "General Fault"
takes the system out.

Snoopy is also keeping three more VDMs running at the same
time that ViaMail is running. ViaMail is on Node3 through
the serial port, Nodes8, 9, & 10 are all running "telnet"
ports thanks to Ray Gwinn's SIO on Snoopy at the same time.
Node10 grabs my UseNet newsgroups and tosses e-mail through
FXUUCICO to my ISP. When Snoopy recovers from the "General
Fault", node10 goes into a flurry of activity also.

If you are not running SIO's comm driver and Fossil i/f, for this
modem port, you should. I had a similar situation that was caused
by a faulty modem, that would lockup on an ATZ, every once in a
while. Replaced the modem, no more problems..
If the node does NOT sut down, upon clicking the OK/Continue
button, then VM is not causing the Fault. If it was, the VDM
would terminate.

I was just curious if there is anyone out that that has run
into something similar to this.

Yup, and took a new modem. I run 3 nodes, with WC4.2m10, and VM
v1.60d,
under Warp3 fp42, on a 486, with 2 modem lines (one private) and
a local node. Use Ray Guinn's SIO also..

Chris Martin, The MARS Station BBS

* WCE 2.1G1/2419 * ... If it's fixed, don't break it!

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