On Tuesday September 02 1997, Charles Bowman wrote to John Hentsch:
 CB>    4.  Tried to apply FP3 to bring the restored features to the same
 CB> level as the rest of the OS and get a Corrective Service Facility
 CB> error message, "A previous installation of service is still pending.
 CB> The system must be rebooted to allow the process to complete before
 CB> applying additional service."
 CB> I've followed everything I could find in the readme's and can't make
 CB> that message go away.  Any ideas?
This worked a few times for me.  This is from memory, but I'm pretty sure 
it's correct.
Put these lines in your config.sys right after your hpfs.ifs line.  
Substitute your own drive letter to match your system:
DEVICE=I:\OS2\INSTALL\IBMLANLK.SYS I:\OS2\INSTALL\IBMLANLK.LST
RUN=I:\OS2\INSTALL\IBMLANLK.EXE I:\OS2\INSTALL\IBMLANLK.LST
Reboot.  You should see the "processing locked files" messages.  All should 
be cleared up.  TTYL -=- Dave
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