Anyone seeing 8.5 Standard client hanging at the Getting Started Page? This happened on two separate machines. On 1st one, I did a fresh install and on the 2nd box, fresh install on a newly built XP workstation. Both XP workstations have SP3 installed. New PRM has been log with Lotus support
Subject: Same problem here
Vista Business, SP1, English, Czech locale settings. Hangs indefinitely on startup trying to open the Home page / Getting started page. The server is 8.02, though.
Josef
Subject: I’m seeing the same problem - at multiple companies
I’m seeing the same issue and I’m curious to know if there is a solution. I need to configure some db stuff and this ‘hang’ is creating a huge problem.
Does anyone know if there is a fix?
Thanks
Subject: A quick fix
Not sure if this is of any use but I had to delete the folder “workspace” to make it work again.
Josef
Subject: Client hangs first time
Hi
When I tested on 4 different systems (3 XP and one Linux), the client hung for a while then the software became responsive.
In all cases, I needed to reboot the whole computer.
To help things out a bit, I did the following before rebooting and it seemed to help
1- Delete the Log.nsf
2- Delete the Cache.ndk
3- Delete all Temp files (Windows and users)
4- Clean up some of the old files I had
5- Delete the Perweb.nsf
Hope this helps a bit.
jacques
Subject: “Getting Started” page is the culprit on two XP SP3 machines I’ve tried thus far…
Not sure what it’s doing, but the “Getting Started” page appears to be a problem (XP SP3 on both machines).
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initial launch was veeeeery slow (as in minutes long, and Notes appeared to freeze). The “Getting Started” page was of course launched automatically.
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subsequent launches also appeared to freeze (since the client defaults to re-open all tabs that were open on previous close)
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re-launch–after closing the “Getting Started” tab–was quick
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attempt to open “Getting Started” from the “Help” menu was very slow once again
Not sure it matters or not, but initial launch on both computers was a non-admin account.
edit:
This occurred with the “All Clients” package.
I can’t recall this same problem occurred initially with the Ubuntu package. It opens just fine at this point on Ibex (8.10).
Subject: I think All Clients is injecting Eclipse into your PC
…which seems to want to take many minutes verging on hours all told. The installer definitely approached an hour, but I neglected to time it. Based on the installer exe size I figured it was going to be a crock-pot style process. Leave that machine alone for half a day kinda thing.
I suspect that there are tons of install files of a new type added, a clue being the massive size of the installer. Then on first client launch, it wants to build and integrate all of those files in the alternate eclipse universe. I would consider this release a “friendly user beta”.