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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

1071.0. "HELP!! BOOT problem on VS2000" by CARDIF::MCCOY_RO () Thu Jul 06 1989 16:32

    HELP!! Problem with BOOT on VS2000
    I need immediate help with boot problem on VS2000.
    When system is booted it recommends using AUTOGEN to change
    about a dozen parameters.  If you do so, then system hangs
    on reboot.  If you don't then system comes up but any attempt
    to create a window, for example, DECterm window blows away the
    Session Manager and hangs!
    Please reply ASAP.
    Also note that for reasons that are too long for here
    I am using another person's account.  My name is Ray Enright
    not MC_COY.  If you like you can phone me at (213) 937-3870,
    Ed. Services in Los Angeles (LAO).
    Thanks.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1071.1	Need more info...	POOL::BUFORD	It's the Bill of Rights, not wrongs	`Fri Jul 07 1989 09:46`	11
	Can you provide a little more info? What version of VMS and DECWindows are you using? How is your system configured (memory, disks, LAVc, anything else you can think of)? Which parameters are being changed from what to what? What is in your MODPARAMS.DAT already? If you AUTOGEN, what were the last few things that appeared on the screen before the hang? Have you ever had DECWindows running on this system before? If not, what was on it? John B.
1071.2	This happened to us	AGBEAR::HORNER	A.G.Bear, Low tech teddy bear	`Fri Jul 07 1989 14:13`	19
	From our past experiences... If you override too many things in your MODPARAMS.DAT file, you can consistently screw up the AUTOGEN that DECwindows tries to do for you. See if you can clean out any MODPARAMS entries. On all of our VAXstations, the DECwindows recommended values for PQL_MWSDEFAULT and PQL_MWSQUOTA did not work and caused boot problems. We initially got around this by doing a conversational boot and setting them to 200 and 300 respectively. Once going, we put lines in our MODPARAMS for these two params. Everyone said that this should not have been necessary, but... The rest of the specified values for DECwindows work fine, and you should be sure that the params can be successfully set to those values. Dave
1071.3	Finally got it working!	GOLETA::MCCOY_RO		`Fri Jul 07 1989 17:07`	12
	Thanks to both of you for trying to help. I finally decided that I was getting caught in a twisty little maze of passages in playing with SYSGEN parameters that I know little about. I got lucky, was able to go back to a previous set of param type files by renaming the ones of recent dates. After booting up everything seems to be working fine. I was able to open up about ten windows without running out of resources. I even had about 8 process slots left even though MAXPROCESSCNT is only 29. Thanks again. Ray Enright.