| 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 |
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Hi guys,
Justed look thru topic 2 to see a more appropriate conference.
Couldn't rightly see one so here goes.
I have a customer who has a vax station 2000 which until recently was
running some sort of windowing system on it. I'm pretty sure it wasn't
Decwindows but it was definately X based.
He recently upgraded his version of Ultrix and now the station will not
bring up a windowing enviroment.
At boot time everything seems to go well and proceeds up to the point
where the standard X background is displayed with a movable pointer.
Then the system hangs and the background continually flashes off and
back on. The pointer turns back to a cursor during these flashes.
According to the customer a login box was once displayed.
I have taken down a copy of his ttys entry :
ttyv0 "/usr/bin/xterm -l -L =80x24+195+275" xterm on secure
window="/usr/bin/Xqvsm"
I have checked my own system running Decwindows and found :
:0 "/usr/bin/login -P /usr/bin/Xpromter -C /usr/bin/dxsession" none
on secure window="/usr/bin/Xcfb"
The ttys(5) entry was again different :
ttyv0 "/usr/bin/xterm -L -r -i -fn 9x15 =80x24+0-0 unix:0" xterm on
secure window="/usr/bin/X 0 -0 #000000 -1 #FFFFFF"
I know for sure that he has "uwm" on his system but cant tell you if he
has DECwindow manager. His system is monochrome. I assume he does but
know for sure that he has been using "uwm" up until now.
Does anyone have any clues as to what I should check on his system so
as to get it going. Any help or a pointer to a conference would be
dandy.
Walter Zambotti.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1911.1 | DECWIN::FISHER | Burns Fisher 381-1466, ZKO3-4/W23 | Thu Dec 14 1989 11:20 | 10 | |
I know beans about Ultrix, but I have found that a server which is continually flashing like that often means that something is continually trying and failing to connect to the server. When the connection is booted off, the server resets. This may be to something involving security. I don't know how all the default stuff works in Ultrix, but the xhost program may be able to help with testing. Burns | |||||
| 1911.2 | FLUME::dike | Thu Dec 14 1989 12:53 | 2 | ||
You might look at /usr/adm/X0msgs and see if there are any clues in it. Jeff | |||||
| 1911.3 | How to set up X ? | WPOMM2::ZAMBOTTI | Thu Dec 14 1989 20:07 | 10 | |
Ok so mayby I can't pinpoint the problem. But there must be some kind
of documentation on how to install and setup X on an Ultrix system
which previously did/didn't have X.
If I have that doco then maybe I should try install X from scratch.
Because at the moment I just dont know where to start looking.
Thanks for .1 & .2.
Walter.
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