Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

2609.0. "incomplete decwindows" by SUCCES::BURTON () Fri Apr 13 1990 10:51

    Could anyone shed some light on this problem I'm having?
    
    Yesterday I had 4mb of mem installed in a workstation II GPX. This
    gives me a total of 13mb memory. When I re-booted I didn't get the
    DEC logo and usename window. Just a gray screen with arrow.
    The DECW$SERVER_0_ERROR.LOG contains the following,
    
    13-APR-1990 07:50:34.1 Hello, this is the X server
    Dixmain address=13074
    Now attach all known txport images
    %DECW-I-ATTACHED, transport DECNET attached to its network
    %DECW-W-ATT_FAIL, failed to attach transport LAT
    -SYSTEM-F-PRIVINSTALL, shareable images must be installed to run
    privileged ima
    in SetFontPath
    out SetFontPath
    GPX color/monochrome support loaded
    gpx$InitOutput address=114c10
    Connection Prefix: len == 42
    13-APR-1990 07:51:50.0 Now I call scheduler/dispatcher
    
    With the exception of new memory nothing else has been changed and
    it ran fine (although slow) before.
    
    I also got an invalid "if then else statement" error when the 
    DECW$STARTLIBS.COM ran. This was at the following line,
$    if f$search("cda$library:defstyle.ddif") .nes. ""
$   then if f$trnlnm("ddif","rms$semantic_tags") .nes. f$file_attributes -
    ("cda$library:defstyle.ddif","stored_semantics") -
    then set file /semantics=ddif cda$library:defstyle.ddif
    
    I removed the middle "then" statement and the if then else
    message went away but I still don't have decwindows logo and username
    window. (edited this command string to be like the earlier version
    of decwindows)
    
    This is decwindows version that comes with 5.3.

    Can you log in from a non-DECwindows terminal?  It sounds like you are
    resource short.  If indeed there are some images that are not getting
    installed, the usual culprit is either GBLSECTIONS or GBLPAGES.  Try
    doing a MIN boot and log in and examine resources.  The extra memory
    will make VMS use more memory, but I have absolutely no idea if the
    two could be related.

                 Dave

    
    That wasn't the problem. My cda$library was gone! Comepletely!
    A user was concerened about disk space and I think she deleted it.
    Guess who gets privileges taken away.
    
    Am I glad I'm taking time off next week!