blank CLI window during OS4 Final boot

Since installing OS4 Final whenever I reboot I get a blank CLI window I have to resize in order to see the Workbench screen. (Clicking the close gadget does nothing.) At first the window contained errors in my User-Startup script, but I've corrected them so they don't show up anymore, but the window still refuses to go away. Any ideas as to what's wrong?

Maybe you forgot an empty 'echo' line in one of your startup script? Or you forgot to redirect an output to >nil: ?

Try disabling user-startup in startup-sequence, that way you know if the problem is in startup-sequence or user startup.

@Chip

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Thanks for the ideas, but it isn't any of those.

net interface ?

Mine usually does that at 3cag user meetings.

I remove my machine from adsl connection and I get that screen.

Even if you are redirecting it's output to nil:?

no. That cures it !

You should add run <>nil: in front of addinterface in startup-sequence

Or else you get consol window, when can find network,

@LiveForIt

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Aahh, the old 'divide and conquer' strategy. Yes, it is, of course, in the user-startup. At 308 lines it's going to take some time to narrow the cause down.

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Actually, that may not be enough. The standard error stream is now redirected separately, so you might want to add "*>NIL:" as well. A better approach could be to add "*>T:NetStart.err" instead, that way you can get a chance to read any error messages and remedy their causes.

You could do the same thing with the User-Startup, I guess.

Best regards,

Niels

I thought I'd solved my problem by adding 'Run >NIL:' in front of the 'Execute S:User-Startup' and it worked the first reboot after that, but during that reboot I noticed another small window popping up which said 'Rexxmast failed.' Looking through the User-Startup again I found that the setup for ImageFX tries to run Rexxmast a second time. I commented that out of the User-Startup, but on the next reboot, I'm back to the same original problem.