Re: [coLinux-users] Colinux0-6-1 in windows2k

[David K. <da...@gi...>]

Dan Aloni <da...@co...> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 03:04:11PM +0100, Yonghao Wang wrote:
>
> > daemon: loading configuration from colinux.default.xml
> >
> > and it popup a windows error message:
> >
> > "The instruction at "0x0040af85" referenced memory at "0x00000000".
The
> > memory could not be "read".
>
> It appears the crash was inside mxml_string_getc. It is possible that
> the mxml library crashed on an invalid XML. Please send it over.
>
> -- 
> Dan Aloni
> da...@co...

hi Dan,

i ran into this bug too.  the first text editor i tried to use to edit
the coLinux config file was UltraEdit32.  this particular program feels
that it's necessary to prepend a BOM (or Byte Order Mark) to the
beginning of the file, just because it's "Unicode".  coLinux crashes if
the xml file starts with a BOM - perhaps it should be renamed a BOMB :-)

anyway i suppose colinux needs to be taught to tolerate this thing since
other editors do that as well -- apparently Notepad BOMbs xml files, too
(see
http://koti.mbnet.fi/akini/java/unicodereader/,
http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200106/msg00389.html
and http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/03/24/95235.aspx).

it pisses me off that my editor did that, silently without telling me,
as it made my very first experience with coLinux a very frustrating one!
it was not until i opened the BOM-munged file in a real *text* editor
(rather than a wannabe Unicode editor) that i was warned that this
supposed text file now contained binary (high ASCII) characters, and
helped me avoid these nasty crashes.

and Yonghao, if you need a text editor that doesn't screw up the colinux
config file, check out MetaPad: http://liquidninja.com/metapad

hope this helps!

-dave