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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

3202.0. "No screens found with VS3100/SPX??" by ECADJR::ALONGI () Mon Aug 13 1990 11:43

Hi,

I just got a VS3100/SPX and I am having trouble getting Decwindows to start
when I add it to my cluster.

The system has an RZ24 with 32 Meg of memory and a TK50 drive.

The system came with VMS5.3-1 already installed on it.  When I boot
the system up standalone, Decwindows comes up no problem.  

When I added it to my cluster (also running VMS5.3-1), my first error 
was  GEBDRIVER.EXE not found.  I copied over the driver from the standalone 
disk to fix that.  Next, I noticed that when the system booted standalone, 
the following message appeared on the screen

%DECW-I-RELOAD, reloading GEBDRIVER.EXE

and when I booted from the cluster I didn't get this message.  I tracked down
the file that does this, DECW$DEVICE_GE.COM and copied it over from the 
standalone system.

Now, I get the GEBDRIVER reloading, the decwindows process starts, and 
everything looks normal but the windows never come up.  
The process  DECW$SERVER_0 only hangs around for a few minutes then it 
goes away.

Here is the DECW$SERVER_0_ERROR.LOG

13-AUG-1990 08:49:25.8 Hello, this is the X server
Dixmain address=127b0
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 imag
e
in SetFontPath
out SetFontPath

Fatal server bug!
no screens found

At first I thought that the part about LAT was a problem so I manually 
installed the images.  I still got the same error, no screens found.
When I looked on the standalone system, those same LAT errors were there,
so it doesn't look like that is the problem.


Any suggestions???
Thanks

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
3202.1		STAR::MCLEMAN	Jeff McLeman, VMS development	`Mon Aug 13 1990 13:46`	3
	SOunds like you really don't have V5.3-1 on your cluster. Re-apply V5.3-1 and then boot the SPX into the cluster. It should work.
3202.2	That worked	ECADJR::ALONGI		`Tue Aug 14 1990 09:22`	5
	Hi, That worked. I reupgraded to 5.3-1 and Decwindows came up fine. Thanks