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- From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
- Subject: Re: CURE! for no desktop on bootup syndrome
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:07:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.190707.18395@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <186rqvINNtb@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Sep4.172851.28982@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1992Sep5.203313.1558@ms.uky.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep5.203313.1558@ms.uky.edu> sam@ms.uky.edu (Mike Mills) writes:
- >schmiher@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Hermann Schmidt) writes:
- >
- >
- >>In article <186rqvINNtb@agate.berkeley.edu>, stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
- >
- >>[ stuff about startup problems deleted ]
- >>The problem appears to be related to the automatic startup of any
- >>kind of application thru any method (startupfolder, automatic restart).
- >You know, I've been fiddling with this as well. I start two programs from
- >my startup folder. Since doing this I've had problems rebooting on occasion;
- >PM freezes either with a blank screen or maybe gets a few icons/windows open
- >first.
-
- I've been following this thread with interest as I started experiencing
- this problem only this past weekend. Frequently, I too, would have the
- screen come up blank except for my desktop picture or with folders and
- windows open, but "hung up" in any case. Once, to my horror, and before
- I discovered the "Application not responding" dialogue, my complete
- desktop came up and then all icons disappeared while I was watching.
-
- In fact, it was right after the disappearence of the icons that I
- discovered the "not responding" dialogue. It seems to require a few
- alt-esc's and/or a few right clicks to get it to come up, but it does.
- That time, it told me that Pulse wasn't responding. I clicked cancel
- and the Pulse window closed. Then it repeated this for DeskPic and
- Clock. After cancelling clock, the clock window closed and then the
- desktop closed. Of course, the desktop restarted and then I was
- informed that the Desktop was not responding. After clicking cancel,
- the desktop returned with all icons in place and working (finally!).
- The problem is now recurrent. I appreciate the information provided
- in this thread and I will attempt a "cure" on my system.
-
- I can indentify exactly when my problems began. My autostarted desktop
- worked fine until I experimented with a program I downloaded from
- hobbes (ahem, ftp-os2). I think it was called alrmclk and it supposed
- to be a cron-like utility for OS/2. It came up once, but acted
- squirrely and wouldn't let me do anything. I had to kill it by calling
- up the task list and closing it from there. After that, I tried to
- run it again. After running it, nothing would happen -- no window,
- no icon, no evidence that it was running EXCEPT that it would appear
- in the task list. I closed it from the task list. Later, I had
- occasion to reboot and I experienced my first blank desktop. I didn't
- get my desktop back until I booted from floppy and deleted the
- alrmclk executable. This probably wasn't good form and may, for I
- know, be the cause of my problems. Now I know that I probably could
- have hit alt-esc and right click until I got the "not responding"
- dialogue, though I don't know if that would have been any better than
- what I did.
-
- >Hope this gets fixed in a future release.
-
- Me, too!
-
- Larry
- --
- Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com or att!cbnmva!las) speaking only for myself.
- EOR (end-of-ramble)
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