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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: OS/2 locking up? What to do...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.211408.29230@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 21:14:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug26.140515.23371@nmt.edu> jreynold@nmt.edu (John Reynolds) writes:
- >I have had OS/2 installed for about 3 weeks now and love it, the only thing
- >that I have a question on is: How do you recover from "lock ups" and is it
- >possible. For instance:
- >
- >The other day I started a DOS app (I had just modified the DOS properties) and
- >as OS/2 was starting up the DOS session, that window just locked. Nothing would
- >work (Mouse input dead, and Ctr-ESC and Alt-ESC useless).
- >Although, this lockup was different from others(where it appeared that
- >everything was toast): I had PMEYES and PULSE running and both of those
- >processes seemed to still be running. Someone told
- >me that it might be the WPS locking up and that OS/2 was still technically
- >running. So HOW DO YOU 'RESTART' WPS so that CTR+ALT+DEL doesn't have to be
- >used?
-
- I have this problem all the time. Sometimes the mouse doesn't lock. But
- CTL-ESC doesn't help, and pressing other key combos indicates that the
- keyboard buffer is full because the computer beeps. It is clear the OS/2
- kernel is still ok, because CTL-ALT-DEL closes open files before rebooting!
-
- I guess the real fix is for IBM to clean up the WPS code!
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