I recently got cvticon.exe and converted some windows icons I had to OS/2.
This has resulted in two problems that may be related.
1) To change the icon on an object you enter the General section of the
settings foe that object and select "Find". This correctly loads the icons
I want but if I then select "Edit" from the same settings page I do not get the
icon editer, instead the system just sits there. Any attempt to open another
window fails with the message "Not enough memory to start. Close one of your
applications and try again."
If I have a monitor like PMFREE or Memsize running at the time they show
almost 6 Meg and 58Mb of swap space left. CPU usage is low. Recently using
the PROCS utility I was able to see that an additional process called
something like "PMTRIM" was running. Slaying this has cured the problem.
2) Is simular. On openning a folder that contains a lot of icons (such as
"productivity") only some of the programs have icons. All of the names are there but there are no actual icons. I suspect that the few progs that retain their
icons have them encoded into their binaries. Not only dont the icons appear
on the desktop openning the "General" section of "settings" for the object
show a blank area where the icons should be. Again the system refuses to let
any new window be launched siting insufficient memory, again all the system
monitors at my disposal state that there is around 6M available.
Killing off all the windows fails to free enough memory to open any other
windows and the system refuses to closedown. A list of processes shows nothing wrong and all the icons effected are the OS/2 default ones.
I have the lighthouse picture as a backdrop. I read somewhere that there
may be problems openning windows on small systems but I have 8Mb on my
machine and the thing stays locked up even when all applications have been killed. This occured a couple of times before I changed the icons on the desktop
for converted windows ones and has happened on two occassions since.
THIS BUG KILLS AN OS/2 SYSTEM COMPLETELY until reboot.