TCP/IP icon weirdness on IIcx

[MacMan]

I did a clean install of System 7.1 on my IIcx yesterday and then I proceeded to install Open Transport. OT is working fine but there is something strange going on with the TCP/IP icon in the Control Panels folder. Take a look at this screenshot: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1306/1095790082_1b2ca39271_o.jpg.

Anyone seen this before?

Edit: I should probably mention that as well as installing OT, I installed the drivers for an Asante MacCon Nubus ethernet card and RAM Doubler. Dunno whether these may be the cause.

 

[luddite]

I have seen that before... not specifically with TCP/IP, but just with icons in general. I'm sorry to say it preceded a rather nasty HD crash, though I imagine there could be any number of causes.

You might try opening the icon in ResEdit and see if it's buggered up at the source or if something else is happening.

Good luck!

 

[MacMan]

Well it turned out that the problem was being caused by a corrupted desktop file. The TCP/IP icon and anything to do with TCP (such as prefs) were all affected and seemed garbled. A quick check with ResEdit showed that there was nothing wrong with the files themselves.

Strangely enough it was a spontaneous restart (my IIcx does that occasionally) that solved the program as the System automatically re-build the desktop file.

It's a bit odd though. I'm going to keep my eye on it and see if it happens again.