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Date:	Sat, 20 Jul 2002 00:18:15 PST7
From:	Wayne Cypress <waynecypress@compuserve.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "INTERNET:scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: boot hang... still

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>Peter said:
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>Hi Wayne,
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>To rename a folder, don't Right-click. Use a regular Left-click but
>hold the Alt button down while you do so.

Good suggestion, thanks, I did not know that.

>> STILL experiencing hangs during reboots,
>> took 4 attempts this morning to succeed.
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>> When I rerun checkini, all those "Object handle.... snip
>> ... found" items come up AGAIN! Danged things are STILL
>> THERE! Obviously I don't understand the function of
>> checkini/cleanini.

>I run checkini like this:

> CHECKINI /C /S /Y:2 /W

I'll try it out tomorrow, too late to fool with it tonight. I'm just tire=
d
enough to really screw something up.

>Always save your old OS2*.INI versions. Checkini makes backups of the
>two files but will overwrite the previous one; I rename them so I have
>them all.

OK

>> I've now done this three times. What does it take to get rid of that
stuff?

>Pesky little things, those INI files. Checkini wasn't able to get rid
>of my boot hangs -- I had to use UniMaint to clean out whatever the
>problem was. One run with UniMaint and I've been booting without a
>problem ever since.

What bothered me is that checkini INFERS it will get rid of each "Object
handle to non-locateable path" by asking if you want to delete it, but it=
's
still there later. I read the suggestions in emails after this email, so =
I
will try running normally for awhile next time before I try a reboot....
but I tend to doubt checkini would leave those changes to chance. =

Frankly, from prior comments (which sounded good to me) I assumed that th=
e
operating system is using a copy of the ini file(s), and I guess now I'm
not sure what checkini alters, the copy in memory or the copy on the hard=

drive. I think the first time I ran checkini, I simply shut down and
rebooted afterwards. When the stuff I'd asked to be deleted was called ou=
t
again the next time I ran checkini, I thought perhaps I NEEDED to reset t=
he
WPS to bring the newly-changed versions from the hard drive into memory i=
n
order to keep OS/2 from saving the (old) memory versions into those files=

on shutdown, so I did the reset and THEN rebooted. Neither method worked.=

Now I have no idea what is going on there!

>Wayne, is there any chance you can run UniMaint Repair on your system to=

>see if it will fix your INI's? It worked here when checkini wouldn't.
=

Well, I tracked UniMaint down on the internet the other day and found it
was chargeable software, and... I guess I can purchase it if necessary, b=
ut
I'll try the other suggestions first. I did download the demo version,
which I haven't unzipped as yet, but I think I recall that the demo versi=
on
doesn't make alterations.

Wayne

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