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clrmame Discussion / Re: Scanning does not start

« on: 08 October 2016, 00:37 »

Well, to be honest, I was starting to look over eBay (among other places) for a reasonably priced Mac Mini that I would then offer to donate to the cause...

Sure, you'd still have to supply the monitor, keyboard and mouse, but it would provide you with a Mac OS environment to play with/develop in...

Who knows? It might even inspire you to develop a Mac/Linux version of CMP (I kid... I'm not sure if that's even a possibility)

I'm not a rich individual, by any stretch of the imagination, but I do like to contribute what I can, when I can to the community (I got my start with MAME around version 0.2x... Back when the ROM Set total was less than 100... I used to maintain a small, external database of ROMs, cheats, and other, miscellaneous files needed to make MAME work... Hence my Screen name). MAME has grown exponentially over the years, and I struggle to keep up with it all... I'm relatively new to CMP, and all it can do (up until a couple of years ago, I would attempt to manage my ROM Sets by hand, using a variety of Mac utilities/frontends), and as a retired Apple Service Tech, I was initially reluctant to make use of CMP, as it was a windows-only utility. WINE has made it possible for me to make use of CMP, and I can't imagine not using it going forword...

If supplying you with a Mac OS environment would prove at all beneficial, I'll continue my search... If not (and my feelings will not be injured in the slightest, should that be the case), please let me know, and I'll focus my attention elsewhere...

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Scanning does not start

« on: 07 October 2016, 00:38 »

Well, I guess this is what happens when I leave town for a couple of days... 

I'm thrilled that it's looking like an update to WINE will solve this issue (Now I just have to figure out how to do that myself... )

Roman - Again, thank you for the amazingly quick responses, and willingness to help with this issue (and, of course for CMP... )

Carbon - If you have a spare moment or two, if you wouldn't mind PMing me, and let me know what steps I might have to do, to get my own WINE environment situated (I believe they're up to 1.9.20...  )

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Scanning does not start

« on: 02 October 2016, 01:33 »

All righty then...

Based on what we know so far, the problem appears to be related to the update to Mac OS X 10.12. What remains unknown, is whether the problem lies in the OS, or WINE (I think we've effectively eliminated CMP, and/or changes in MAME as the culprit).

The remaining question then becomes; Where do we go from here?

Roman - I cannot begin to thank you enough for taking the time to look into this matter... If you think additional testing would be beneficial, I'm on board! (Incidentally, you mentioned that you don't have a Mac OS environment to test in... Were that to change, would that be of any use to you? I'm not making any promises, but I'm looking into options... )

Carbon - For me, it's looking like my next step will be to set up a Boot Camp partition, and run CMP under actual Windows (Seems a bit of overkill for the ability to run a single Windows-Only App, but as long as I can point to the ROMs directory on my Mac HD, and have CMP work its magic, it's a livable, albeit (hopefully) temporary solution...

We can't be the only ones affected by this...

Which brings me back to the previous question; Is the next logical step to contact the author(s) of WINE, and see if they can pinpoint the fault? It would be a simple matter to supply them with a copy of CMP, but they would then need all 36,000+ Rom Sets to fully test (not an impossibility, but the logistics leave much to be desired... )

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Scanning does not start

« on: 30 September 2016, 05:25 »

Okay, so here's some progress (I think... )

I tried making a new directory (ROMS Temp) that started off with the first 1,500 sets...

I was able to run a scan to the end (Having checked only the 'Sets' and 'Missing')

Upon completion, the expected results widow comes up, but is empty, and when attempting to redo the scan, all checkboxes are extremely slow to respond (I thought it had locked up again, but it appears that all processes are taking a minute or so to respond to mouse clicks)

I was eventually able to start a second scan (with all options enabled). The statistics window still comes up blank upon completion, but at least the scan went to 100%.

I'll have to do more testing tomorrow, once I get home from work, adding more files to see if there's some 'magic number' that causes the lockup, but in the meantime, I'd count this as progress! 

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Scanning does not start

« on: 30 September 2016, 02:29 »

(Just back from work)

So I tried the latest cmpro_log_limit.exe, and told it to scan only sets, and check only for missing sets.

Like Carbon, I got further than before, but still locks during checking for unknown sets,

Log file enclosed.

I'm considering making a temporary ROM Directory with about 500 sets included, and see if that makes a difference.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Scanning does not start

« on: 29 September 2016, 16:10 »

In the meantime, if there are any other paces we can put cmpro_log_new.exe through that might shed any additional light on this problem, pease let us know...

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Scanning does not start

« on: 29 September 2016, 15:51 »

For what it's worth, I just tried the cmpro_log_new.exe, and my result was very similar (I got as far as sc4himig.zip).

The only difference I could see is that I keep all my ROMs, LDs and CHDs in a single directory, if that makes any difference.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Scanning does not start

« on: 28 September 2016, 22:44 »

Fair enough, I'll try the 7z and rar dlls, and let you know...

Do I need to do anything other than place cmpro_log.exe in the folder along with the application?

Sleep well, and thank you again for looking into this!

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Scanning does not start

« on: 28 September 2016, 22:21 »

Well, the cmpro20160928 file opens, and runs (up to the scanning problem), but the cmpro20160928a file for reasons unknown fails to open at all under wine (now 1.8rc-4)

Shall I try cmpro_log with the working cmpro20160928? And to do so, do I simply place the file in the same folder as cmpro20160928?

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Scanning does not start

« on: 28 September 2016, 21:47 »

Well, that's odd... The 'Current Build' you linked doesn't seem to want to open at all...

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Scanning does not start

« on: 28 September 2016, 21:25 »

Same result... Hash Tables are created, and then... Nothing...

I'm considering updating WINE, just on general principals...

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Scanning does not start

« on: 28 September 2016, 21:18 »

No worries... In the meantime, if there are other variables that I may have neglected to mention, please let me know, and I'll try to respond promptly!

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Scanning does not start

« on: 28 September 2016, 21:14 »

Sorry to say, same result...

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Scanning does not start

« on: 28 September 2016, 20:57 »

I see...

Thank you for your consideration, and (amazingly) quick attention in this matter! 

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Scanning does not start

« on: 28 September 2016, 20:47 »

So my next question (albeit one that stems from my own limited experience with CMP) would be: Is there any sort of hidden log file that might help determine at what point the process(es) have stopped?

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Scanning does not start

« on: 28 September 2016, 20:38 »

Again, apologies, but I had updated my OS to 10.12...

I can see if I can get ahold of 0.177, and try that... In the meantime, and thoughts as to whether I should also update my Wine to 1.8.x? (I was waiting for the stable 1.9...)

I'm compiling a fresh 0.177, but I see Carbon beat me to it...

Carbon, I'm wondering if the Rebuilder works for you as well?

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Scanning does not start

« on: 28 September 2016, 20:25 »

That may be due to one variable I neglected to mention...

I'm running Wine 1.6.1 (which has worked fine for me up until today)

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Scanning does not start

« on: 28 September 2016, 20:11 »

Hi, just thought I'd chime in here, as I'm having the same problem as Carbon.

If it helps at all, the Rebuilder appears to work (It updated my collection using a 0.177 to 0.178 update set), but afterwords, switching back to the scanner yielded the same result ('Creating Hash Tables' had already occurred during the use of the Rebuilder, so then pressing 'New Scan' caused an immediate lockup - The scan will not begin, and the animation of the chips and magnifying glass does not move.)