[Info-vax] Decwindows display

[Bradford Hamilton]

In article <000da022$0$24681$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei wrote:
>Bradford Hamilton wrote:
>> I don't run X that often, but when I tried this morning, I noticed I didn't
>> have a display:
>> 
>> $ show display
>> %DECW-W-OPENIN, error opening DECW$DISPLAY as input
>> -SYSTEM-W-NOSUCHDEV, no such device available
>
>
>Sorry to hear about that. It is almost as bad for a guy as
> -SYSTEM-F-NOPENIS, no such device available :-) :-) :-)
>
>
>
>Is the logical DECW$IGNORE_WORKSTATION  set to anything ? This causes a
>system to start the decw software but not the X terminal part.
>
>Also, remember that if you access the system via telnet, or decnet or
>serial console or via lat, you don't get a DECW$DISPLAY created.
>
>make sure SYSGEN> WINDOW_SYSTEM is set to 1.
>
>Mak sure you have a graphic device:
>
>$ graphics_device = f$device("*","workstation","decw_output")
>
>(this is from DECW$DEVICE.COM )

Sorry for not including more explicit information - running X from Mac OS X to
VMS, via ssh (ssh -x <node name>).

$ mcr sysgen show window*
Parameter Name            Current    Default     Min.       Max.   Unit 
Dynamic
--------------            -------    -------   -------    -------  ---- 
-------
WINDOW_SYSTEM                   1          0         0        255 Pure-numbe D
$ 

$ show log decw*ignore*

(LNM$PROCESS_TABLE)

(LNM$JOB_8213DA40)

(LNM$GROUP_000001)

(LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)

(LNM$SYSCLUSTER_TABLE)

(DECW$LOGICAL_NAMES)
%SHOW-S-NOTRAN, no translation for logical name DECW*IGNORE*
$ 

$ type sys$manager:decw$startup_0.log;19
$ Set NoOn
$ VERIFY = F$VERIFY(F$TRNLNM("SYLOGIN_VERIFY"))
Number of screens:         1
Screen devices and order:  GZA0
%RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 000000CC
  BRAD         job terminated at 21-MAR-2009 10:02:51.07

  Accounting information:
  Buffered I/O count:                889      Peak working set size:       3008
  Direct I/O count:                  594      Peak virtual size:         173024
  Page faults:                      1319      Mounted volumes:                0
  Charged CPU time:        0 00:00:01.24      Elapsed time:       0 0

$ show system/id=cc
OpenVMS V8.3  on node RABBIT  21-MAR-2009 14:21:53.68  Uptime  0 04:24:06
  Pid    Process Name    State  Pri      I/O       CPU       Page flts  Pages
000000CC DECW$SERVER_0   HIB      8      995   0 00:00:01.27       827    733   
$ 

As I said originally, all this was working fine the last time I checked
(sometime between New Year's Day and today).