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Re: WARP 4: SHUTDOWN Refuses to Work

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From: Rainer Doering
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 00:00
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John S. Giltner, Jr wrote:
> 
> George Wiley, School of Computer & Information Science, University of
> South Australia 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.
> 
> Hello George,
> 
> Did you install any new software, or run any new programs just prior to
> this happening?  Also do you have the line "SET
> RESTARTOBJECT=STARUPFOLDERSONLY" in your config.sys?  If not I would
> suggest adding it.  This tells OS/2 only start what is in the startup
> folder and run STARTUP.CMD.  If you do not have this OS/2 will restart
> everything that was running when it was shutdown.  Some tasks will not
> terminate when OS/2 askes them to, this it what happens when you do
> SHUTDOWN.  But OS/2 will kill them when you hit alt-ctl-del.
> 
> Good Luck,
> John G.
Did you install LAN requester?
I have to type at OS/2 prompt NET STOP REQUESTER before shut down.
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From: Rainer Doering <rainer.doering@pn.siemens.de>
Subject: Re: WARP 4: SHUTDOWN Refuses to Work
Date: 1997/07/04
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