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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

1937.0. "DECWINDOWS PROBLEM???" by TAZMAN::TRIOLI () Mon Dec 18 1989 10:57

    I HAVE A PROBLEM AND I HOPE SOMEONE IN THIS NOTE WILL HAVE AN
    ANSWER.... I MANAGE THIS VS2000 / VR290 SCREEN THIS SATELLITE IS RUNNING
    VMS 5.1-1 FROM A MAYFAIR III BOOT NODE IT IS ONE OF ABOUT 10 SATELLITES
    IN THIS LAVC BUT IS THE ONLY ONE HAVING THIS PROBLEM........
    
    THE FIRST THING IS WHEN YOU ARE AT THE DECWINDOW LOGO  
    
    
    			DIGITAL
                     USERNAME
    		     PASSWORD
    		   OK            CLEAR  
    
    IT LOOKS LIKE THIS
    
    			 DIGITAL
    		      USERNAME
    		      PASSWORD
    		   OK
    		CLEAR
                     
    WELL THE CLEAR BOX IS OVER THE OK BOX AND WHEN YOU LOGIN IT GETS
    WORSE WITH EVERY WINDOW... FIELD SERVICE HAS LOOKED BEFORE AND COULD
    NOT FIND ANYTHING.....ANY IDEAS??? THANKS IN ADVANCE
    
    
    						MIKE TRIOLI
    						TAZMAN::TRIOLI
    						223-7323
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1937.1STAR::MCLEMANJeff McLeman, VMS DevelopmentMon Dec 18 1989 11:431
Did any one play with any decw$*.dat files in DECW$SYSTEM_DEFAULTS: ?
1937.2Do what Jeff says...if not that, here is a long shot...DECWIN::FISHERBurns Fisher 381-1466, ZKO3-4/W23Mon Dec 18 1989 12:2411
Does it make any difference whether it is the first time the loginout box appears
after booting and/or doing @SYS$MANAGER:DECW$STARTUP RESTART?  The reason I
ask is that if it works fine the first time, but has troubles subsequent times,
you can also look into the DECW$XDEFAULTS.DAT file on the SYS$LOGIN of the
person who logged in.  (In V1 of DECwindows, which you are using, the server
is not FORCED to reset when you lot out.  This means that if some application
kept running after the user logged out, the server would not reset, and the
user's resources from DECW$XDEFAULTS.DAT would still be in effect for the login
box.

Burns
1937.3??????TAZMAN::TRIOLIMon Dec 18 1989 12:2712
   
    >>>Did any one play with any decw$*.dat files in DECW$SYSTEM_DEFAULTS:?
    
     WELL I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT BUT HIS SYSTEM IS THE ONLY ONE THAT
    THIS HAPPENS IN THE LAVC TO AND ALSO SOMETIMES IT TAKES A FEW DAYS
    BEFORE THE STRANGE THINGS START TO HAPPEN AND ONE OTHER THING IS WHEN 
    YOU PAUSE YOUR SESSION ALL THE TEXT AND LINES AND OK,CLEAR BOX GO TO 
    THE TOP LEFT PART OF THE SCREEN ALL OVERLAPPING EACH OTHER
1937.4DECWIN::FISHERBurns Fisher 381-1466, ZKO3-4/W23Tue Dec 19 1989 17:087
All those symptoms really point to having the mumble.dat files messed up.
It could be that there is one in the user's SYS$SPECIFIC directory.

Also, just to eliminate on source of uncertainty that everyone will pick on,
you should probably autogen.  It's a good idea anyway.

Burns