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| 2379.1 | Window manager crash | DELPHI::VATNE | Peter Vatne, VMS Development | Thu Mar 01 1990 18:36 | 8 |
| The symptoms you describe (icon box disappears, headers from all the
windows disappear) will occur when the window manager crashes. This
is a bug.
The interesting thing about the window manager is that it is just
another X application. If you still have a DECterm window available,
just RUN SYS$SYSTEM:DECW$WINMGR, and your icon box and headers
will all come back.
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| 2379.2 | Thanks for quick reply. | KAZUBI::BISHOV | | Fri Mar 02 1990 08:15 | 4 |
| Peter, thanks for the quick response. I'll spread the information
around the group.
Sheldon
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| 2379.3 | obtain log | STAR::CYPRYCH | | Fri Mar 02 1990 11:09 | 12 |
| Define the system logical decw$winmgr_output to point
to a file. The window manager will log messages to
this file which will inform you if the server has
disconnected the window manager connection or if
there is another problem.
There was a problem (which has been fixed) where the
link between the wm and server was getting disconnected.
(I believe there is a note in this file somewhere describing
this)
Nancy
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| 2379.4 | Does that work for other DECW$app's? | GOFER::HARLEY | Skyking, Skyking, do not answer... | Fri Mar 02 1990 11:40 | 7 |
| re .-1
Are there other DECW$mumble_OUTPUT logicals that can be defined to log
output from DECwindows applications (ie, can I trace SM problems by
defining DECW$SM_OUTPUT)?
/harley
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| 2379.5 | Don't scroll Icon Box | CHOVAX::LAYTON | Dave Layton Software Specialist @CHO | Sat Mar 03 1990 08:58 | 8 |
| Just yesterday I had a customer have the icon box disappear on him.
Since it had happened to him previously, I asked him to try and
reproduce it. Surprsingly, he was able to reproduce it. If he
scrolled the ICON box while running a program using the dw debugger
the icon box would disappear. Hopefully this will help to isolate
the problem. BTW we are at VMS V5.3.
Dave Layton
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| 2379.6 | Send log with qar please | STAR::CYPRYCH | | Mon Mar 05 1990 12:30 | 9 |
| Definitely sounds like a bug... If its at all possible
to obtain the log produced when the system logical
decw$winmgr_output is pointing to a file (need to
log in again after setting the logical) it would helpful.
You can include the log when you file a qar.
Thanks,
Nancy
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| 2379.7 | Will try to reproduce bug -- need info. on reporting procedure please | KAZUBI::BISHOV | | Fri Mar 09 1990 08:22 | 8 |
| I'll try the method for logging output and will send report if
possible to reproduce the error. I'm not very experienced at the
process of problem reporting -- can someone provide a quick
overview (or pointer to information elsewhere) on the qar procedure?
Thanks.
Sheldon
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| 2379.8 | Info on QAR procedure now in note 2.0 | STAR::VATNE | Peter Vatne, VMS Development | Fri Mar 09 1990 14:50 | 2 |
| To answer the perennial question, "How do I enter a QAR?", I have
posted the directions in note 2.0 of this conference.
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| 2379.9 | RE: .8: Thanks -- very useful information | KAZUBI::BISHOV | | Mon Mar 12 1990 14:39 | 1 |
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| 2379.10 | icon box didn't appear.... | NURSE::BURACK | Not Fade Away | Mon Oct 29 1990 11:56 | 23 |
| Hi,
I just ran across an interesting problem with the icon box and window
headers. Mine wouldn't appear... this is what I did last friday:
I changed the header text on the session manager window to:
Nothing left to do but :) :) :)
I had to shutdown my system, so I quit out of my session. When I
rebooted and logged into my account, I didn't get an icon box and
window headers. My background screen, my decterms, Bookreader and
the session manager window came up, but couldn't do anything.
Getting a generic DECW$SM_GENERAL.DAT fixed the problem (editing the
file did not work).
Is this a bug? Is it documented that you shouldn't use :) in your
message text?
Thanks,
Ruth-Ellen
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| 2379.11 | | HKOVC::TERENCE | From Middlesex, UWO | Mon Oct 29 1990 20:17 | 21 |
| <<< Note 2379.10 by NURSE::BURACK "Not Fade Away" >>>
-< icon box didn't appear.... >-
# I just ran across an interesting problem with the icon box and window
# headers. Mine wouldn't appear... this is what I did last friday:
That means your window manager has dead. If you do have a decterm window,
just click on it (although you can't push/pop/iconify/deiconify a window
without a window manager, you can still use it) and do a $ show system,
you will find that the DECW$WM_n process disappeared.
# I had to shutdown my system, so I quit out of my session. When I
# rebooted and logged into my account, I didn't get an icon box and
# window headers. My background screen, my decterms, Bookreader and
# the session manager window came up, but couldn't do anything.
You don't need to shutdown your system. All you have to do is to do a
@sys$startup:decw$startup restart.
-Terry
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| 2379.12 | window manager never got started..... | NURSE::BURACK | Not Fade Away | Tue Oct 30 1990 09:29 | 19 |
| Hi,
I don't think I explained the problem clearly... I changed the message
text on the session manager window on friday to read:
Nothing left to do but :) :) :)
Instead of pausing the session, I had to quit the session so I could
shut down all of my systems. When I rebooted on Monday and logged into
my account, I didn't get an icon box or window headers. I couldn't do
anything with the DECterm window. I tried to restart DECwindows from
another terminal. It didn't work.
The only thing that fixed the problem was a new DECW$SM_GENERAL.DAT.
Again, is this a bug or should it be documented that you can't use
characters in the message header?
Ruth-Ellen
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