Alarm update

I have a small problem. I have an alarm loaded on start up. But sometimes, I just get the message “alarm is being updated”, and the computer stops here. Annoying for a server :) Nota: I never change the Alarm details. It’s a fixed alarm (check every minute if server is down, then reboot).

Strange, I don’t see that message in the Messages file (https://www.riscosopen.org/viewer/view/castle/RiscOS/Sources/Apps/Alarm/Resources/UK/Messages?rev=4.9;content-type=text%2Fplain) nor in the source…?
Are you running any add ons that may interfere with Alarm?

No. I just load a previously saved alarm file.

I suspect that after the alarm, the file is updated – it’s a repeating one – to go to next alarm hour and date (here alarm+1min). Probably that the same is done when the file with good parameters, but an old time out, is loaded. Don’t know. The message appears in a borderless windows. A simple clic, and everything will work. Problem: at boot, my server will not click on the message. So Wimp is halted.

With an ‘every’ command in BBC Basic I could code what I need in 5 minutes :)

Nota, “This alarm is being updated
Please be patient” is hard coded in the template file.

With an ‘every’ command in BBC Basic I could code what I need in 5 minutes :)

Oh dear, Mr. Hudd will be most disappointed you didn’t think of his work where you can wait for a condition to be true

Ah, template file. I didn’t look there as I’m looking at this stuff on my phone (and templates are not textual).
Certainly it doesn’t sound right that it makes the system stop upon boot…

I too have a repeating alarm loaded on startup. When I transhipped everything to a RPi 2 a week ago, like you I got a message I had to click before startup would complete. I forget what the message said, but it may have been the same. Anyway, the problem was fixed by going into Alarm→Choices and ticking the option that says ‘Automatically update the alarm database’. Have you tried this?

Oh dear, Mr. Hudd will be most disappointed you didn’t think of his work where you can wait for a condition to be true

Good to know.
I use AppEnsure (from Director) and a reboot command.

Ah, template file. I didn’t look there as I’m looking at this stuff on my phone (and templates are not textual).

Not better here: I did check under Windows.

Anyway, the problem was fixed by going into Alarm→Choices and ticking the option that says ‘Automatically update the alarm database’. Have you tried this?

Seems to solve the problem. Thanks Richard!
I know hope to have a really non-stop web server under RISC OS.

I just regret that the SmartDriver does not work very well with a Pandaboard non-ES. Frequencies are 1, 1.2, 1.5, 1.6 GHz. They should begin with 800 MHz (anyway, it works well at 1 GHz).

Dammit. New update this morning, Wimp blocked again. After reboot, Alarm file is erased. Seems to work when a keyboard is connected, not when it’s not the case. Anyway, why Alarm tries to update my file?

I still have problems :(

I suspect two things: first, a bug with the update alert window, that can’t be closed by the application when no keyboard is present. Second, a problem at boot, when date is not set (no RTC present), and so Alarm wants to update the database (probably when the date is changed)…

Anyway, problem is simple: update of database = Wimp is blocked. Is there a way to force Alarm to never update the database? Perhaps I should try Organiser to see if a similar problem is present with recurrent task alarms.