[Info-vax] DECwindows no longer starting on satellite (was: Cluster boot delay)

smithfarm presnypreklad at gmail.com
Sun Nov 14 08:44:26 EST 2010


Thanks. Now I have a different problem.

My two-node cluster had been booting and running OK. However, I needed 
to execute certain node-specific commands at startup so I wrote a 
command procedure (NODE_SPECIFIC_START.COM) and put it in 
SYS$SPECIFIC:[SYSMGR]. I did this on each node separately.

Then I put the following line in SYS$STARTUP:SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM:

$ @SYS$SPECIFIC:[SYSMGR]NODE_SPECIFIC_START.COM

So far, so good. Except this appears to have broken the last line in my 
SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM script, which starts DEC Windows:

$ @SYS$STARTUP:DECEVENT$STARTUP.COM

The boot server node, which doesn't have a graphics card, reacts to this 
command as it did before (i.e., it tells me "No graphics card found, not 
starting DECwindows." or something to that effect).

However, on the satellite node, which had been booting into DECwindows 
just fine, I now get the following error when it runs the 
DECEVENT$STARTUP script:

%DCL-E-OPENOUT, error opening DIA$:[MANAGER]DECEVENT_START.TMPCOM; as output
-RMS-E-DNF, directory not found
-SYSTEM-W-NOSUCHFILE, no such file
%PURGE-W-SEARCHFAIL, error searching for 
DIA$:[MANAGER]DECEVENT_START.TMPCOM;
-RMS-E-DNF, directory not found
-SYSTEM-W-NOSUCHFILE, no such file

If I'm not mistaken, DECwindows *did* start after these error messages 
were displayed. Once. But after the next reboot all I get are these 
messages and no DECwindows.

I get the same error messages (and no DECwindows) when I try to run 
DECEVENT$START interactively.

Any ideas will be appreciated, as always.

Nathan



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