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kilaueabart 
GUI conks out
Posted on 19-May-2017 1:13:03
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Lately, including when I booted up today, I sometimes find that I cannot start apps by clicking on icons. Today as soon as i booted I noticed that the clock was a bit off, so I right-clicked on Workbench and selected Time and nothing happened. Generally I am able to open drawers, but clicking on icons in them doesn't do anything.

I warm rebooted and this time it was OK, but where can I find a clue as to what is going on?

I'm running the updated OS4.1 FE on a recently refurbished SAM460ex.

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Drewlio77 
Re: GUI conks out
Posted on 19-May-2017 11:11:32
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@kilaueabart

You may have a corrupt/missing system libraries or other GUI dependent files.

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Severin 
Re: GUI conks out
Posted on 19-May-2017 11:39:10
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@kilaueabart

I had that problem a long time ago, it's due to your hardware and software clocks bing a long way out of sync.

Add the following lines to your s:network-startup file, save and reboot.

date server pool.ntp.org port 123 >nil:
setclock save

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Hypex 
Re: GUI conks out
Posted on 19-May-2017 16:44:03
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@Severin

What I want to know is why this would stop apps loading or functioning incorrectly like a PC or Mac?

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Severin 
Re: GUI conks out
Posted on 21-May-2017 1:33:03
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@Hypex

iirc (was a long time ago) it was interfering with the double click timing so that no matter how fast you double click the system thought it was only a single click.

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kilaueabart 
Re: GUI conks out
Posted on 22-May-2017 0:31:24
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@Severin

Thanks. Have added the lines. Don't need to reboot today, time and Preferences > Time are OK.

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Hypex 
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Posted on 22-May-2017 11:16:32
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@Severin

That's interesting. Would be confusing in any case. That would drive me crazy.

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alpyre 
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Posted on 22-May-2017 11:34:44
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@Severin

If it was about the double click algorithm, he wouldn't be able to open drawers too. So it must be something else.

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Severin 
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Posted on 22-May-2017 15:14:22
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@alpyre

When I had the problem I couldn't open drawers but back then I did everything in dopus4 and now dopus5, I rarely use workbench.

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