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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

2869.0. "problem at login time, no WSAx process" by LEMAN::ROSSIER (That's Helzapoppin !) Tue Jun 05 1990 06:05

Hello Decwindows users,

We have a strange problem here in Switzerland at the EPFL site. 
On a VS3100 served by a 8530 (VMS 5.2 DECw. 1.0), after a certain amount 
of time (lets say half a day) with nobody interactively logged on the 
station, the first trying to login get a black screen just after entering 
his password. And the process hang. Doing a show system via decnet show no 
WSAx process.

What we done:
-checking all sysgen parameters,
-autogenerated the system,
-checking all (decw$)(sy)login.com...

We have also noted this problem at the same site on an other LAVC (780,3200,
3100). For some reason this customer don't want to upgrade to V5.3/2.0 now.

Does anybody see such a problem in an other place ?

Any help would be very appreciated !

Thanks in advance.

Jean-Luc Rossier (SSG-St-Sulpice)
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Name		DateLines
2869.1DECWIN::FISHERPrune Juice: A Warrior's Drink!Wed Jun 06 1990 13:125
Is there a server process?  What state is it in?  (HIB, LEF, etc)?  Have you
tried ^F2 to make sure there is no operator window.  Are you sure it has nothing
to do with screensaver?

Burns
2869.2*blinkrate=0LEMAN::ROSSIERThat's Helzapoppin !Wed Jun 13 1990 05:0526
Hi,

	Finally I receive the following answer from Paris:
	(from the STARS database - an article that I miss...)

SUBJECT:                                                                      
                                                                              
At login time, the cursor is blinking by default. The process _WSAn           
that displays the DIGITAL logo and the banner for USERNAME & PASSWORD         
will consume CPU time and thus can die when it expires the UAF quota CPUTIME.
DESCRIPTION:                                                                  
                                                                              
In order to avoid this effect, you can disable the blinking of the cursor     
by editing the DECW$SYSTEM_DEFAULTS:DECW$LOGIN.DAT and adding this line:      
                                                                              
                                                                              
        *blinkRate :    0 
The process _WSAn will no longer consume its CPU time. 

			Hope this help,
			Dung HOANG
			C/S Support FRANCE

I apply this fix and that works fine! Thank you everybody !

			Jean-Luc Rossier (SSG-St-Sulpice)
2869.3KONING::KONINGNI1D @FN42eqWed Jun 13 1990 11:574
Sounds like a bug: the login procedure should not be subject to the CPU
limit.

	paul