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Contents
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1. Warpin Warning
2. IF IT ALL GOES HORRIBLY WRONG
1. Warpin Warning
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WARNING - DO NOT INSTALL WITH Warpin V0.9.19
IT WILL FAIL AND CORRUPT YOUR WARPIN DATABASE
See below for details.
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XShadow must be installed using WarpIN.
Note: Use WarpIN V0.9.8 or higher but not V0.9.19 to install
this archive.
Warpin V0.9.19 has a bug that causes the installation to fail
and the Warpin database to become corrupted. This means that you
will not be able to install any further software (including Warpin!)
until you either repair the database, delete the database or delete
& re-install Warpin. Note that the last two alternatives will lead
to you being unable to de-install any previously installed software.
The sympton is the error message "Exception occured on main thread"
when you try to use Warpin as well as an initial error during the
attempted installation of XShadow.
The database may be repaired in the following manner. (Yes I know
you weren't meant to do it but you did it anyway!)
* Start up the os2 registery editor - X:\OS2\SYSTEM\REGEDIT2.EXE,
where X is you OS/2 installation drive. You should be able to
do this by simply typing regedit2 at a command line.
* Select "File-> Open Profile..." from the menu and navigate to
your Warpin directory and open the warpin database file DATBAS_C.INI.
* Locate the keys that start with Peter O'Donoghue\XShadow and delete
them - select the key in the main window & then selext Edit->Delete
from the menu.
* Close the database by selecting the data-base in the main window and
selecting the menu item "File->Close Profile".
2. IF IT ALL GOES HORRIBLY WRONG - READ THIS BEFORE INSTALLATION !!!!
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XShadow has its effect through a SOM Class contained in the
DLL XShadow.dll. It may be completely disabled by renaming
or deleting this DLL in the ?:\OS2\DLL directory.
Recovery process:
* Reboot the machine.
* When the Boot Blob appears (A solid block at the top left of
the screen) press Alt and F1 keys together. This will boot
to the boot recovery screen.
* Select "Boot to command line ..."
* When a command prompt appears delete or rename the DLL
as described above eg. del c:/OS2/DLL/XShadow.dll
* Reboot and uninstall the package as described in 4. below.
This is necessary to ensure classes are deregistered. There
may be an error indicating that the file deleted above cannot
be deleted again (for obvious reasons!)
Use WarpIn to uninstall this package otherwise classes will
not be correctly deregistered.
Details:
You can run warpin by itself and delete the two packages
associated with XShadow. Alternatively, simply start a new
installation and choose the uninstall option at the package
screen (click on each package until a red cross appears
indicating un-installation of that package).