When SOMobjects 2.0 (not the version included with this OS/2 Warp Toolkit) is installed on OS/2 Warp Version 3, the LIBPATH, PATH, and DPATH environment variables in CONFIG.SYS are changed to place the SOMobjects directories before the operating system directories in the search order for DLLs, EXEs, and data files. This causes the Workplace Shell to encounter an unrecoverable error the next time the system is restarted because it requires the SOM DLLs that are contained in the \OS2\DLL subdirectory.
In order to allow SOMobjects 2.0 Workstation applications to run successfully, you must edit CONFIG.SYS and change the LIBPATH, PATH, and DPATH statements before restarting the system. These statements must be changed to place the operating system directories before the SOMobjects directories.
Note: This only applies to SOMobjects Workstation applications, not Workgroup applications.
The same problem will occur for any application that includes SOMobjects 2.0 DLLs if the application places its DLL directory first in the LIBPATH. Again, the workaround is to assure that the \OS2\DLL subdirectory is before any other directory that contains earlier versions of the SOM DLLs. Any changes made to the PATH and DPATH environment variables by the application installation must also be reversed.