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OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical => Applications => Topic started by: andreas on May 15, 2025, 04:04:50 pm
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When starting Lotus 123, I receive the message:
"Error initializing OLE"
The Organizer informs me:
ASWAN_ERROR: (Error 65535(0xffff): E_UNEXPECTED - Unexpected failure. ASD UNCHANGED)
WordPro and Approach are running without issues.
I have reinstalled SmartSuite, but the problem remains the same....
using pmdll i find in org32.exe org32B red
in org32.dll i find TZBack32 red (TZBack32.dll shows no red dlls) and LTTMR11 red (also LTTMR11.dll shows no red dlls)
123w.exe shows no red dlls
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Hi,
I can't find my notes on this, but I dimly recall that one needs to run RegRx in the Lotus Accessories folder to fix this.
RexRx rebuilds the values in REGISTRY.DAT that SmartSuite depends on.
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oh i tried that. but that didn't help.
btw, i had the same problem some years ago and couldn't solve it.
same as last time i did a complete reinstall of os/2...
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I seem to recall that the SOM.IR file that sits in \os2\etc, when corrupted, can cause Lotus 1-2-3 all sorts of problems.
My experience certainly can attest to this.
Here is what I have on my machine:
Directory of G:\os2\etc
6-30-99 4:28p 496,503 0 a--- SOM.IR
1 file(s) 496,503 bytes used
44,077,031 K bytes free
EDIT
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I forgot to add, the SOM* files exist in other directories as well, such as:
1) \os2\etc\dsom
2) \os2\system
Not sure to what extent, if any, these may be impacting you, but as I mentioned above I did take to making a backup of the good & working known compies in case they every "go away":
Directory of G:\os2\etc\dsom
8-25-18 6:06p <DIR> 701 ---- .
8-25-18 6:06p <DIR> 528 ---- ..
5-19-25 12:01p 6,384 0 a--- SOMDCLS.DAT
11-10-98 9:36p 6,496 0 a--- SOMDCLS.DAT.working-state
5-19-25 12:01p 6,844 0 a--- SOMDCLS.TOC
11-10-98 9:36p 6,904 0 a--- SOMDCLS.TOC.working-state
5-19-25 12:01p 1,012 0 a--- SOMDIMPL.DAT
11-10-98 9:36p 3,036 0 a--- SOMDIMPL.DAT.working-state
5-19-25 12:01p 60 0 a--- SOMDIMPL.TOC
11-10-98 9:36p 172 0 a--- SOMDIMPL.TOC.working-state
10 file(s) 30,908 bytes used
44,076,982 K bytes free
AND
Directory of G:\os2\system
6-30-99 4:34p 15,056 0 a--- SOMD.MSG
7-30-96 9:42p 15,056 0 a--- SOMD.MSG.working-state
6-30-99 4:34p 780 0 a--- SOME_OS2.MSG
7-30-96 9:14p 780 0 a--- SOME_OS2.MSG.working-state
6-30-99 4:34p 3,718 0 a--- SOMK.MSG
7-30-96 8:23p 3,724 0 a--- SOMK.MSG.working-state
7-30-96 10:05p 1,403 0 a--- SOMR_OS2.MSG
7-30-96 10:18p 3,527 0 a--- SOMUCOS2.MSG
8 file(s) 44,044 bytes used
44,076,982 K bytes free
It's been a while though, and some of this may have been precautionary backup as I installed things such as VisualAge CPP, etc.
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But i did a complete new install of the smartsuite.
before that i tried to delete all the *.ir-files (it needed to alter the lotus entries in the config.sys before). But that didn't help.
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Hi,
I finally remembered where Lotus documented the ASWAN issues. It's Suite15.txt in the root of the \LOTUSW4 directory. Have you tried all the suggestions in the section that discussed the known ASWAN issues?
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i cannot find that file in my directory...
can you post it here?
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Here are the three READMEs I have here, that includes the 1.7.x releases and updates.
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Here's a copy of Suite15.txt
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There is also
IBM Lotus SmartSuite for OS/2 Warp 4 Release 1.7 Fixpack 3