[Info-vax] DECwindows no longer starting on satellite

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

On 2010-11-14 14:44, smithfarm wrote:
> 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

What do you do in NODE_SPECIFIC_START.COM ?
Does it e.g. SET DEFAULT to some SYS$SPECIFIC directory ?
And not resetting back to SYS$COMMON before exiting ?