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In article <1992Aug28.041804.7627@news.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
>In article <1992Aug28.035047.12917@unixg.ubc.ca> ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes:
>>
>>Something odd and irritating happened to my OS/2 desktop.
>>
>>When I restart my computer, it boots etc. I get a startup.cmd window.
>>The desktop flashes grey as usual, then returns to the desktop color.
>>
>>So far so good.
>>
>>Now the system does one of two things:
>>1. finishes the startup, and puts all my icons and stuff on screen
>>2. sits there and does nothing. No icons etc. Moving the startup.cmd
>>window or ctrl-esc hangs PM until a "Desktop not responding" window comes up,
>>and I can kill it.
>>
>>So where does my desktop go? Bad day? Doesn't feel like coming out to play?
>>
>>Fortunately, I have the startup.cmd window up, and I'm getting used to  typeing
>>"kill 5" to kill the desktop, and recycle it. It then comes out to play :^)
>>
>>(If I didn't have a startup.cmd window, and kill, I'd be more than irritated!
>>at least now I can recover)
>>
>>-I always shutdown properly, even "refresh" before shutting down. No help
>>-I rebooted from the install disks etc. and tried chkdsk /f:3 and
>>that didn't find any weirdness
>>
>>Any helpful suggestions?
>
>Did you have these problems before installing the new kernel, or are you
>on the old kernel, still?

I had the new kernel on for some time. I did several things at one time
which *may* have contributed to things:

added 4 megs, to bring me to a total of 12 megs 60ns RAM
added new (buggy!) commga driver, which caused some TRAPs, so the disk
doesn't get shut down properly

messed with some video things.

the new kernel has been problem free.
>
>Did you install the black icon fix?

yup
>
>I already had the black icon fix, but I just installed the new kernel, and I
>have just started having these WPS lockups!  Please tell me I did something
>else wrong :-)

As I write this, my desktop has regained some composure (for now).
I think whatever file it stores your TASKLIST stuff and the other state info
in got corrupted. I closed a few windows before shutting down last time, and 
the system came up properly.


vooodooo. Hoping the CSD has lots of fixes (the little niggly minor problems
add up, and make you wonder sometimes....)
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