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Date:	Wed, 24 Jul 2002 23:43:44 PST7
From:	waynec@linkline.com
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Boot hang: still there

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Steven Levine writes:

>>config.sys and substituted them. After manually rebuilding warpcenter and
>>toolbar, I'm pretty much back where I was... a useable desktop and
>>intrmittant boot hangs. So, I may have re-introduced the hang when I
>>restored the ini files, or I was just lucky while not using them.
>
> It's likely something subtle is broken in your .ini's.
>
>>However, on thinking about it, it's not really a "hang" per se, "hang" is
>>a misnomer..... because when I have the "blue screen hang" (which BTW is
>>in 1280x1024 mode) I can:
>
> This is considered a hang. There are several flavors of hang.
>
>> - ctrl-alt-W to bring up Watchcat, which displays processor usage
>
> Since you have Watchcat, what happens if you use it to kill the 2nd
> invocation of PMSHELL when the hang occurs? Effectively, this is the code
> that implements the WPS.

Seems like I tried that once without a change, but I'm not certain... I'll
try that next time, though I suspect it won't have an effect, since PMSHELL
is probably needed to bring up the desktop, isn't it?

>
>>Someone mentioned a possible problem with AIC7870.ADD, so I'll try to
>>find the latest version, but the problem description doesn't match my
>>issues.
>
> I doubt it's related in any way.

I changed it earlier today, but haven't rebooted yet, probably won't until
tomorrow, and it might take a while before i get a hang again anyway.

>
> Once you get a desktop backup setup that you trust going, you can try a
> non-destructive makeini. To do this, you boot to the command line an run:
>
> makeini os2.ini ini.rc
> makeini os2sys.ini inisys.rc
>
> Search cmdref.inf for makeini for details. If you do this without
> deleting the existing .ini's, your current Desktop will be saved and the
> parts of the Desktop owned by the WPS will be restored to a default state.
> Sometimes, this will clear up nagging problems as the cost of losing some
> of your customizations. You can recover some of your customizations from
> the saved Desktop, but it's never a 100% recovery.
>
> If you want, run:
>
> checkini /w /s
>
> and email the checkini.log to me. I might see something.
>
> Steven

I'll do that... but it will be a big log (300k+)

Thanks,
Wayne

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