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Applications / Seamonkey and AOO4.1.6 problem
« on: January 24, 2019, 08:26:51 pm »
Hi All
Not sure if this has already been spotted by anyone...
I tried to start seamonkey - Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 SeaMonkey/2.42.9esr - which failed and did not even raise a blip on the cpu monitor
Checking with pmdll I see that the "nixy bits" nspr4, libc066, libcx0 and gcc1 are reported as "Dll initialization failed" (or similar wording).
Interesting...
I have made no system changes and no reboots, not even a Desktop restart, since last using seamonkey a couple of hours earlier.
Since last using seamonkey I have used A004.1.6 to write a letter and started cupsd.exe in order to print the letter.
I have also run a couple of OS/2 games that do not use any of the "nixy bits".
So, the culprit is probably AOO4.1.6 as killing cupsd.exe has not helped.
I saved this text as Desktop\seamonkey.txt and closed the editor (e.exe)
Before rebooting I tried a Restart Desktop. That resulted in most of my Desktop disappearing.
I hit the power off button - no, I did not use shutdown as I wanted to force a chkdsk on reboot.
Having powered on the system booted to my nearly fully populated Desktop - just the recently saved seamonkey.txt missing and not found anywhere on the system so I had to recreate the above from memory.
So, was the seamonkey problem Desktop or AOO4.1.6 (or both) related?
I guess the answer is to run seamonkey for a little while then close it then run AOO4.1.6 and cupsd.exe to see what happens.
The answer is that after running AOO4.1.6 the system needs to be rebooted in order to run seamonkey - and possibly any other app that needs the "nixy bits".
Has anyone else made this discovery? - and is there a workaround to avoid the reboot?
Regards
Pete
Not sure if this has already been spotted by anyone...
I tried to start seamonkey - Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 SeaMonkey/2.42.9esr - which failed and did not even raise a blip on the cpu monitor
Checking with pmdll I see that the "nixy bits" nspr4, libc066, libcx0 and gcc1 are reported as "Dll initialization failed" (or similar wording).
Interesting...
I have made no system changes and no reboots, not even a Desktop restart, since last using seamonkey a couple of hours earlier.
Since last using seamonkey I have used A004.1.6 to write a letter and started cupsd.exe in order to print the letter.
I have also run a couple of OS/2 games that do not use any of the "nixy bits".
So, the culprit is probably AOO4.1.6 as killing cupsd.exe has not helped.
I saved this text as Desktop\seamonkey.txt and closed the editor (e.exe)
Before rebooting I tried a Restart Desktop. That resulted in most of my Desktop disappearing.
I hit the power off button - no, I did not use shutdown as I wanted to force a chkdsk on reboot.
Having powered on the system booted to my nearly fully populated Desktop - just the recently saved seamonkey.txt missing and not found anywhere on the system so I had to recreate the above from memory.
So, was the seamonkey problem Desktop or AOO4.1.6 (or both) related?
I guess the answer is to run seamonkey for a little while then close it then run AOO4.1.6 and cupsd.exe to see what happens.
The answer is that after running AOO4.1.6 the system needs to be rebooted in order to run seamonkey - and possibly any other app that needs the "nixy bits".
Has anyone else made this discovery? - and is there a workaround to avoid the reboot?
Regards
Pete