| 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 |
Hi,
a customer of us has a problem with his VAXstation3100 VMS V5.3-1 and
DECWindows.
If the customer pauses his station for a while, the paused window will
be opened and only the icon-box is available.
To work again on the machine he had to reboot the system.
I think the session-manager opened the paused-window but I don't know
why and how I get out what happens in the time where the customer is
away because this problem occurs only if he paused the station.
Regards
Susanne
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| 3197.1 | Need more info | STAR::ORGOVAN | Vince Orgovan | Mon Aug 13 1990 19:37 | 16 |
From your description, it is hard to tell what is happening. It
sounds like the workstation is unpausing itself but without the
user entering the correct password. Is that really the case? Are
all of the other expected applications (besides the session
manager) still running? What do you mean by "he had to reboot the
system" to work again? Is the server crashing too?
If the DECwindows server is crashing, please file a QAR that
contains the server error log file.
If a VMS DECwindows workstation is automatically unpausing itself,
this is a serious problem. A likely cause is the death of the
session manager image. One way you might try to capture information
about this is to enable image accounting, wait for the workstation
to unpause itself, and to get the image termination status from
the accounting information.
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| 3197.2 | Also look at sys$login:decw$sm.log | DECWIN::BROUILLETTE | Tue Aug 14 1990 15:19 | 7 | |
I agree with Vince, turn on image accounting. There should also be
some information in sys$login:decw$sm.log.
This is not a known problem, so please enter a QAR with any information
you can gather.
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| 3197.3 | SMAUG::MENDEL | In some strange power's employ | Sun Aug 19 1990 13:56 | 1 | |
Is there an idle process killer around? | |||||
| 3197.4 | HKOVC::TERENCE | From Middlesex, UWO | Tue Sep 04 1990 06:46 | 9 | |
It sounds like the Session Manager was killed for some reason. Since
every application was started by the Session Manager (including the
pause window), therefore, only the Icon Box was left untouched.
I don't think he needs to reboot his machine, a restart of DECWindows
will be O.K.
-Terry
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