| 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 |
The following note was posted in the Worksations Notes File. Thought it belonged here.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Good morning, One of my customer has reported the following problem while using DECwindows. 1. Create the following command file WS1.COM $ Set Display/Create/node=WS1 $ Spawn/nowait/input=NL: - Run sys$system:DECW$WINMGR 2. Execute WS1.COM in a detached process with $ Run/detached sys$system:loginout - /input=WS1.COM - /Output=WS1.LOG 3. When WS1.COM is executed in step2, the following occurs on the Workstation: a. Session Manager is started. b. The Icon Box is created c. The log file (WS1.LOG) contains all the commands and messages; including the following error message - SESSION MESSAGE: Error starting DECterm Controller Invalid Logical name First, I would like to know the meaning of that message (If anyone knows). Second, I would like to know where to get more information on that kind of error messages generated by DECwindows and the Session Manager. The standard VMS & DW Doc. set don't seem to have much information on DECwindows management issues. Thanks. Francois Guillemette. MQOP12::F_GUILLEMETT
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| 1445.1 | "Invalid logical name" means "DECW$TERM_PORT failed" | HANNAH::MESSENGER | Bob Messenger | Thu Sep 14 1989 21:32 | 37 |
Re: .0 > - SESSION MESSAGE: Error starting DECterm Controller > Invalid Logical name > > > First, I would like to know the meaning of that message > (If anyone knows). My guess is that it's an error message returned by the DECW$TERM_PORT routine that the session manager calls (in DECwindows V1.0) to create a DECterm window. I think what could be happening is that the session manager starts the DECterm controller, which exits because it can't open the display (because something is wrong with DECW$DISPLAY, perhaps). Then the session manager calls DECW$TERM_PORT, which tries to translate a logical name that is normally created by the DECterm controller (DECW$DECTERM_MAILBOX_node::0.0, where "node" is your node name). Since the DECterm controller never got fully started the logical name doesn't exist and DECW$TERM_PORT encounters the "invalid logical name" system error code. DECW$TERM_PORT return with this condition code, and the session manager reports the corresponding system message in its log file. What I don't understand about WS1.COM is: why does the session manager start up when you run WS1.COM? > Second, I would like to know where to get more information > on that kind of error messages generated by DECwindows and > the Session Manager. The status codes that can be returned by DECW$TERM_PORT aren't documented anywhere (you could look up "invalid logical name" in the System Messages manual, but the description wouldn't tell you what you wanted to know). If DECW$TERM_PORT encouters an error it simply returns with that error code. We'll have to improve that in a future version. -- Bob | |||||