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Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:45:26 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: bootup trap when SMSTART runs

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> >the traps are always immediately preceded by a
> >"Message file not found." line if that helps.
>
> That probably means you don't have DPATH set up quite right.
> I suspect the trap formatting code is looking for OSO001.MSG
> or perhaps DDE4.MSG which are not always correctly installed.

I have these files:

G:\OS2\SYSTEM\OSO001.MSG
G:\OS2\SYSTEM\OSO001H.MSG

but do not have any DDE*.MSG files.

My CONFIG.SYS has this:

SET DPATH=G:\MPTN;G:\IBMCOM;G:\OS2;G:\VT\SPCH_BIN;
G:\OS2\SYSTEM;G:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;G:\OS2\INSTALL;
G:\;G:\OS2\BITMAP;G:\OS2\MDOS;G:\OS2\APPS;G:\MMOS2;
G:\MMOS2\INSTALL;G:\IBMINST;G:\TCPIP\PCOMOS2;
H:\apps\CHANGI;H:\GU20;

which includes the \OS2\SYSTEM\ directory.

> >FFST.EXE 0001:000020b6
>
> These are all exactly the same trap, so I suspect data corruption. Rerun
> the FFST Setup (Desktop -> OS/2 System -> Problem Determination Tools) and
> see if that's enough to fix it.

Yup, you are right right right -- data corruption. When I run FFST
Setup I get a two-second splash screen for FFST and *then* I get this
pop-up window:

Error!
Get shared memory error RC=123

and when I click OK, I then get this pop-up window:

Problem Occured Reading FFST Setup

When I click OK on that one, I get the FFST Setup screen. The Probe
Suppression Entry Summary table appears but there are no entries.

> If that's not enough to clean up the corruption
> take a look in \OS2\SYSTEM\RAS and delete the files
> that look like data, indexes and configuration.
> These are probably the .DMP .DAT and .FFS file.

Thank you, thank you. In \OS2\SYSTEM\RAS\ I have the following files,
all timestamped just before this problem first started occurring:

12-12-03 11:38p 231429 0 FF012311.DMP
12-12-03 11:38p 231401 0 FF012312.DMP
12-12-03 11:39p 231429 0 FF012313.DMP
12-12-03 11:39p 65536 34 LOG0001.DAT
12-13-03 12:13a 5904 0 FFSTHDR.FFS

The first FFST trap in POPUPLOG is timestamped 12-13-2003 00:13:09.

Tonight (I can't right now) I will move the above files to a safety
directory and reboot.

QUESTION: Should I move just the FFSTHDR.FFS file to a safety directory
at first, and see if that resolves the problem? Or should I move all
the files?

Thanks, Steven.

- Peter

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