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Re: WARP 4: SHUTDOWN Refuses to Work

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From: ard Marc Guardiani
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 00:00
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In <33b98ba7.0@news1.ibm.net>, stefand@ibm.net (Stefan A. Deutscher) writes:
>On 1 Jul 1997 12:24:18 GMT, Mike Trettel <trettel@fred.net> wrote:
>>On 27 Jun 97 16:47:33 +0930, George Wiley, School of Computer &
>>Information Science, University of South Australia
>><GEORGE.WILEY@levels.unisa.edu.au> wrote:
>>>I'm running Warp 4 and all of a sudden about 2 weeks ago, shut down
>>>stopped working.
>>>
>>>Now when I select "shut down" from the system menu OR click the
>>>shutdown icon on WarpCentre NOTHING HAPPENS.
>>>
>>>I have had to resort to using CTRL-ALT-DEL in order to shut down with
>>>the result that changes to my Desktop are lost on reboot.
>>>
>>>Can someone please help with this problem? Email responses preferred.
>>>
>>>Thanks. -- George Wiley, University of South Australia, Adelaide,
>>>Australia.
>>
>>I've been having this problem after running NS/2.  Basically, the
>>entire Warpcenter freezes up and doesn't work.  I can get a clean
>>shutdown by doing CTRL-ALT-DEL, or by activating Watchcat and running
>>shutdown from there.  It is most annoying, and I am not at all sure
>>what to do to fix this outside of removing NS/2 (which would cause my
>>kids to kill me). -- 
>
>Ah, same here (not the kids part, but the shotdown problem after running
>NS). Hope they'll fix it. Stefan

If you have a copy of FM/2, run the Process Killer.
You will see that NS/2 _sometimes_ leaves a process 
running.... which you cannot kill. This causes the problems 
with shutting down. It also causes NS/2 to crash and lock
up my system if I try to invoke it again.


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Marc Guardiani
Pittsburgh, PA
USA
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From: ard@acutronic.com@pgh.nauticom.net   (Marc Guardiani)
Subject: Re: WARP 4: SHUTDOWN Refuses to Work
Date: 1997/07/02
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