'taskkill' not recognized on Xp Home

[Randal Andress]

I am beginning with AI2 and am using (mostly) the emulator to test my apps. When I get to the point of needing to reset the emulator connection, I see what looks like an anomaly in the aistarter window that may be preventing the reset from working properly.  See below,

[begin aistarter window]
'taskkill' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Problem stopping emulator : status 1

127.0.0.1 - - [12/Aug/2014 22:26:07] "GET /reset/ HTTP/1.1" 200 38
[end airstarter window]

If the aistarter is attempting to execute the 'taskkill' command, I do not think it will be found (unless it is provided by the AI2 installation) since windows Xp Home Edition does not have such a command. To test my theory, I created a 'taskkill.bat' containing the following

@ECHO ON
IF %2 == emulator.exe (
tskill emulator
) ELSE (
tskill %2
)

in order to intercept a 'taskkill /IM emulator.exe' and execute a similar command that might have the desired effect.

This eliminated the error.

BTW, I do not consider this hack a viable workaround - only a debug tool.

Does this make sense? Am I missing something?

Regards,
-Randal Andress

[SteveJG]

@Randal .... this was brought to the attention of the MIT technical team ... a response might be a while.

In the mean while, thanks for your detective work ... I might be very helpful to AI2 deployment and Companion.

Regards,

Steve

[dsuzuk...@gmail.com]

Hi Steve:

Being stuborn as I am, I did another intent to use Chrome and the emulator, because wifi is not working right.

This is what I got:

 This is the same thing that happened to Randal. It is also happening after an update to AI Companion. Hope this is of help to you.

Regards

Daniel

[SteveJG]

@ Daniel    We are starting to get reports from other users that version 36.0.1985.143m is causing  drop-outs with WIFI connections.

The short term solution is to use FireFox instead of Chrome.    Users report this 'solves' the issue. 

I use Chrome ... the same version apparently, and I have no issues. :)       

Thank you for the heads-up.

Regards,

Steve