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- From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 works fine, but - no shut-down
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.082025.7315@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Dec10.125338.4513@ips.cs.tu-bs.de>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 08:20:25 GMT
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- mueller@ips.cs.tu-bs.de (Elmar Mueller) writes:
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- >Just everything works fine (yes, no problems!!!), but one day a few weeks
- >ago the shut-down-options in the WPS-context-menu disappeared!
- >That's why i have to shut down my system by pressing the 3-finger-hotkey
- >(CTRL-ALT-DEL) to close the system. A message appears: 'system is re-
- >booting - please wait'. Then the screen turns to the booting-page.
- >That is the time i can turn-off the power-switch.
-
- Ive seen this a lot. It appears to be caused by memory use and/or overflow.
- The README file mentions this behavior when memory gets low. What is odd is
- it may happen even if you clean up your desktop (close all programs). There
- seems to be some kind of problem with the memory being to fragmented (or
- whatever) to perform a proper shutdown.
- Also check your remaining disk space. Os/2 does strange things when the swap
- file has nowhere to go.
-
- [sam]
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