Dear allegro people,

I am getting an Allegro error on my SWF embroidery machine which occurred after the electricity was cut. When I started the machine afterwards it gives me this text message:
Shutting down allegro due to signal SIGSEGV general protection fault at eip=00000224 .

Now I am not a programmer, so I was wondering if there is a way of resetting the programme????

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It's clearly an (embedded I hope) linux system, COOL to know Allegro made it on something like this.

But Beoran's right, you should contact SwF support as this most probably has to be fixed but firmware reset, and might be not possible for the everyday user by design, since this is an professional appliance.

It looks like an X86 running DOS (?!). wEIRD.

Anyway you're beffer off contacting your local representative for SWF, I don't think there's a way for the user to reset to factory settings on this kind of hardware, but you never know.

EDIT:
By the way, it could also be that the improper shutdown damaged some othe component and the firmware is shutting down the UI application....it could very well be that Allegro shuts down correctly and the segfault is caused by something else.

In this case resetting to factory settings woudl not help.

and to be perfectly clear, here I don't think we have a way to help you further, unfortunately.

If it's an old machine, and it's running DOS, it's entirely possible that the hard drive is dying, or the memory is faulty. If you have access to the internals, unplugging and reinserting the RAM could help. But since it's consistantly failing, that's more likely the harddrive or software installed on the harddrive.

Either way, though, as neat as it is knowing Allegro is used on those, we cannot really help over the internet. SWF is definitely the one to contact.

How many projects do you know of that still support DOS. Hang on, I better make sure we're not talking about a .NET library for ARM processors.

Of course not, my very first encoounter with Allegro was in CAD environment, but this in this case seemed likely to be.

And in any case this does not change the matter, we could not help with that...as likely the other Allegro components....the OP should refer to SWF support.

The message from the crash is a clear indication it's allegro 3 or 4. Allegro hooks the SIGSEGV and then prints it's message (I presume it also tries to clean up before exiting, which is kindof dumb to do during a segfault). And no, it isn't embeded linux, it's clearly DOS.

Same here. Especially if I touched a bitmap pointer that didn't point to anything anymore.