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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:STAR::VATNE
Created:Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3726
Total number of notes:19516

743.0. "Won't return to LOGIN Screen" by AKO455::SHEPRO (Service Before Protocol) Tue May 09 1989 09:19

I have a user who's system, after logging out of a session, will just present
a blank screen of just the blue background and not present the login dialog 
box nor the DIGITAL logo.

Any ideas of what to look into?

alan

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743.1Try #426 for a startLESLIE::LESLIEAndy ��� Leslie, CSSE/VMS EuropeTue May 09 1989 10:215
    Look into this conferences previous notes, where this topic has been
    covered before, at least once.
    
    - Andy

743.2Where?COORS::JJONESJeff JonesTue Aug 08 1989 21:3712
    Please, I have the same problem as .0 (also 584.0) but cannot seem
    to find the topic almost mentioned in .1. I have looked for twenty
    minutes and can find no other topic (other than 584; and it has no
    replies) that deals with this problem. 
    I have to reboot my system every time I logout just to log back in!
    
    This seems to come and go. I have analyzed the system processes on
    the system and find no quota depletions or anything of that nature.
    
    Please help.
    jjjones

743.3STAR::ORGOVANVince OrgovanTue Aug 08 1989 21:5113
    I don't have any guesses about why you are seeing this problem,
    but you will have a better chance of isolating it if you enable
    image mode accounting on your VMS system. See the VMS documentation
    for "set accounting /enable" for details.
    
    When you quit a session, the session manager sends a message to the
    job controller requesting that a new loginout job be run. Image 
    accounting should let you determine how far along this is getting.
    If everything worked properly, you should see a new process created
    running loginout, and then a successful loginout image exit status.
    If the loginout image fails for any reason, image account should
    record the exit status.

743.4AITG::DERAMODaniel V. {AITG,ZFC}:: D'EramoWed Aug 09 1989 09:405
	There really is useful information in 426.*, which is where
	the title in .1 said to look.

	Dan

743.5Image accounting infoDEMON3::CLEVELANDNotes - fun or satanic cult?Thu Aug 17 1989 13:5729
This has been happening intermittently to me, too...

I enabled image accounting and found out the following:

When the login screen reappears, I see the window manager and my CHILD-created
DECterms terminate, and then the session manager.  When it doesn't reappear,
the window manager and session manager terminate first, followed by the
DECterms.

When it works, I see the following image records logged for the session
manager process:  DECW$SESSION.EXE exit with status = 1, LOGINOUT exit
with status = 1, follwed by the process termination with status = 1.

When it doesn't work, I see DECW$SESSION.EXE exit with status = 1, and then
the process terminates with status = 1.  There is no LOGINOUT record.  The
DECW$SM.LOG does not have the "CLEVELAND logged out at ... " message.

I am running SSB 5.2, I'm swimming in pool space, and have plenty of free
and contiguous global pages and pagefile space.  I've autogen'd with FEEDBACK 
recently.

I do create three DECterms (via CHILD) from DECW$LOGIN.COM.  Is everyone that
is seeing this problem using CHILD?

Tim

Ps:  There have been two QARs entered on this in the V5 database, so I didn't
add another.