Freezing of the WPS

I am still fighting with the annoying problem mentioned in the subject 
field.
When I surf on the internet with Firefox, Mozilla or Seamonkey the WPS 
freezes and there is nothing to do! The only way is rebooting the 
computer...

A person suggested me to install the "Flashblock" plugin for Firefox
and 
to replace the Innotek Font Engine with version 2.60 beta.

I installed Flashblock and I have been surfing for 1 hour without 
problems.I just clicked on a Flash animation to watch it and I got a 
system freeze. That's why I thought the problem are Flash animations!

After the reboot, I got Chekdisk of the JFS volumes, but after having 
loaded the SNAP driver I got the mouse's cursor stuck on the screen.

Now it is impossible to have a working system. I think I have to reinstall 
eCS again....

The eCS version is 2.0 RC1. I Had the same problem with the previous beta 
and with versin 1.2. That's is the main reason why I didn't renew the 
software subscription!
With such problem I can't use eCS in a proper way.
I am really considering of moving to another operating system, if I can't 
solve this mistery.

Thank you in advance.

Hi Carlo

Carlo wrote:
> I am still fighting with the annoying problem mentioned in the subject 
> field.
> When I surf on the internet with Firefox, Mozilla or Seamonkey the WPS 
> freezes and there is nothing to do! The only way is rebooting the 
> computer...
> 
> A person suggested me to install the "Flashblock" plugin for
Firefox and 
> to replace the Innotek Font Engine with version 2.60 beta.
> 
> I installed Flashblock and I have been surfing for 1 hour without 
> problems.I just clicked on a Flash animation to watch it and I got a 
> system freeze. That's why I thought the problem are Flash animations!
> 



Flash can be a problem.

My Wife often finds Her system has locked up after playing Flash games 
online but rarely from playing or trying to play a Flash video clip.

Ctrl-Alt-Del is usually the only answer when Her system locks.


Guess we need a more up-to-date Flash player on eCS...


> After the reboot, I got Chekdisk of the JFS volumes, but after having 
> loaded the SNAP driver I got the mouse's cursor stuck on the screen.
> 


That could be a case of "munged" INI files either os2.ini or
os2sys.ini 
or both.

Boot to a command line and check the file sizes - you may have to use:-

attrib -r -s -h os2*.ini

in the \OS2 directory before being abe to list the files though.


If they are "munged" and you have a fairly recent system backup copy 
both files from the backup.

Regards

Pete




> Now it is impossible to have a working system. I think I have to 
> reinstall eCS again....
> 
> The eCS version is 2.0 RC1. I Had the same problem with the previous 
> beta and with versin 1.2. That's is the main reason why I didn't renew 
> the software subscription!
> With such problem I can't use eCS in a proper way.
> I am really considering of moving to another operating system, if I 
> can't solve this mistery.
> 
> Thank you in advance.

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:38:50 UTC, Carlo_warp@Yahoo.it (Carlo) wrote: 

> After the reboot, I got Chekdisk of the JFS volumes, but after having 
> loaded the SNAP driver I got the mouse's cursor stuck on the screen.
> 
> Now it is impossible to have a working system. I think I have to reinstall

> eCS again....
> 
> The eCS version is 2.0 RC1. I Had the same problem with the previous beta 
> and with versin 1.2. That's is the main reason why I didn't renew the 
> software subscription!

Strange. Activating automatic Desktop Backup would make sure you always
have a recent backup for your ini files.

Restore, when these things happens, is as simple as pressing ALT-F1 at boot,
and select the backup you want to restore.

This will fix such a problem in 99% of all cases.

You really never tried that ? It exists in every eCS release.


-- 
  Allan.

It is better to close your mouth, and look like a fool,

Thank you for the suggestion.

I found such function in Desktop Properties=>Archives. I selected
"Archive 
Desktop" and "At every desktop startup".

Another user suggested me the following things:

2.  Opening (e)Seamonkey, then Virtual PC followed by a try to
open Mesa (a spreadsheet) would cause a repeatable freezing of
the desktop.  A cold shutdown would be necessary for recovery. 
I traced this to the PMMERGE.DLL file.  Apparently, the
PMMERGE.DLLs from either PJ31908.ZIP or FIXPAK 5 suck on my
system.  

When I reverted back to the PMMERGE.DLL from FIXPAK 4, life was
good!  If you type 'orexx' to search on eComStation website, you
will find "Fixpack 4 versions of OREXX.DLL and PMMERGE.DLL". 
There is an archive called FP5_UP.ZIP that you can install.

I will try that solution as well and I hope to fix the annoying problem"

Carlo wrote:
> I am still fighting with the annoying problem mentioned in the subject 
> field.
> When I surf on the internet with Firefox, Mozilla or Seamonkey the WPS 
> freezes and there is nothing to do! The only way is rebooting the 
> computer...
> 
> A person suggested me to install the "Flashblock" plugin for
Firefox and 
> to replace the Innotek Font Engine with version 2.60 beta.
> 
> I installed Flashblock and I have been surfing for 1 hour without 
> problems.I just clicked on a Flash animation to watch it and I got a 
> system freeze. That's why I thought the problem are Flash animations!
> 
> After the reboot, I got Chekdisk of the JFS volumes, but after having 
> loaded the SNAP driver I got the mouse's cursor stuck on the screen.
> 
> Now it is impossible to have a working system. I think I have to 
> reinstall eCS again....
> 
> The eCS version is 2.0 RC1. I Had the same problem with the previous 
> beta and with versin 1.2. That's is the main reason why I didn't renew 
> the software subscription!
> With such problem I can't use eCS in a proper way.
> I am really considering of moving to another operating system, if I 
> can't solve this mistery.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 


If you have any theme skins loaded in Firefox it will freeze the desktop