Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

2683.0. "create/terminal hangs" by FRSTSC::ERLEMANN (Bedman strikes back) Mon Apr 30 1990 12:41

    Hi,

    during his login flow a customer of mine encounters a strange behavior.
    The creation of a terminal via a $create/terminal=DECterm/display=node
    hangs. After breaking this process he can find in his
    DECW$SERVER_0_ERROR.LOG:

	%DCL-S-SPAWNED, process 'user'_1 spawned
	XIO:  fatal i/o error 65535 on Xserver "NODE::"
		after {500-6000} requests (after {500-600}-1 processed
	%XLIB-F-CNXABORT...

	%NONAME-E-NOMSG, message number 02dbc002
	%SYSTEM-F-IVLOGNAM, invalid logical name


    If he places an $exit just at the beginning of his specified LGICMD
    of UAF everything works fine. But placing this $exit deeper in the
    procedure works sometimes/not. 
    He has just done an upgrade from 5.3 to 5.3-1 and "this command pro-
    cedure has worked every time". He has no $set term/inq, no $read and
    no $inquire in it. This procedure is about 6 printed pages big so I
    thought that it could depend on the DECW$SERVER_RETRY_WRITE_MAX/MIN
    values.
    Increasing them to 30000/500 did nothing.

    So, what's going on?

	Armin

Re: .0

Did you mean create/terminal/display=node or create/terminal/display=node::0?
create/terminal/display=node shouldn't work.  create/terminal/display=node::0
should work, but some people have reported that it doesn't.  Do this instead:

	$ set display/create/node=node
	$ create/terminal

				-- Bob

    Thanks Bob for the quick answer,
    the customer appreciated and accepted this (your) answer, but the
    further question was, "how can I do a $set display... when I a)
    login the session b) create a DECterm from the SessMgr menu ?
    
    Greetings
    	Armin

Re: .2

They can create a command procedure decterm_on_xxx.com containing the set
display and create/term commands and then set the application definition to
"@decterm_on_xxx".

				-- Bob