James C. Gorman, Ph. D. schrieb:
> Terry,
> 
> Terry Norton wrote:
> 
> 
>>I fix this one of two ways.  The easiest is starting UNIMAINT, it
>>immediately pops up a window telling me my INI files can't be written
>>to.  I then click YES to have UNIMAINT fix it.
>>
>>For those that don't have UNIMAINT,
> 
> 
> As one who does not have it, is it still purchasable/available and applicable to
> eCS?
> 
> If so, is BMT the place to get it (for those of us in the USA)?

You are describing a system with highly corrupted os2ini and 
os2sys.ini. Read the following descriptions and you'll get back a 
system with the inis working and functional:

Go to HOBBES.

search and download wptool32.zip
unzip it into its new, empty own folder
You may read noe checkini.txt in the folder.

type
checkini /C T
accept anything it asks
After the WPS boots up choose the same command again
Try it until the WPS does not reboot at end.

change to your system drive, type
\ecs\system\ewps\bin	
xfix

select menue actions -> find invalid files
These are defective entries in your os2*.ini!
select menue select -> all invalid
select menue sort -> status
This brings all defective entries on the end of the list
Scroll through the list at end
select one entry with mouse button 2 (standard: right hand)
select in the popup menue  delete handle
The INI files gets cleaned up now
Menue xfix -> write back to os2sys.ini
close xfix.

Run checkini /C /T again until the WPS gets not booted again.

Your inis are now clean as if they are fresh installed.

Anything that was not destroyed over time is back and fully functional 
again.

You may now use the other tools you find in wptool to backup and 
restore your inis later.

Do the same procedures as described above any time you have to made 
bigger changes to your desktop. Do the procedure at least 2 times/year 
or more often even when you does install nothing.

Ups! Start up with xfix, then checkini - as xfix will help checkini to 
come around without hunging up itself.

XFix is a tool from eWPS that gets installed during baseinstall of eCS 
1.1 when you have NOT deselected the desktop extensions.

Some years ago I found me in the same situation as you describes. 
Following the hints given above gave me the system back and working 
for now 7 years without any flaw - including multiple changes of 
mainboard, disks, SCSI-controllers, fixes, fixpacks, installing and 
removing an uncountable number of applications, WPS extensions and so on.

-- 
Tschau/Bye

Herbert Rosenau
EDV Beratung & Programmierung
Lindelbrunnstr. 53a
76767 Hagenbach

Tel: 49-7273-919416
Fax: 49-7273-93072                     http://www.dv-rosenau.de/


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