[Info-vax] 8.4 and DECwindows CDE login box not coming up

[Paul Sture]

On 2015-06-07, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)
<helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <YKCdnYYhW7pC4e7InZ2dnUU7-Q9i4p2d at supernews.com>, David
> Turner <islandcomputersuscorp at gmail.com> writes: 
>
>> The system DOES need a 15 unit base, 1050 motif or 1050 unit NAS150
>> Otherwise X will not come up
>
> Yes, but I'm sure that's in the hobbyist PAKs.

>From the latest Hobbyist PAKs I received on 19-APR-2015 (Thanks John):

$ LICENSE REGISTER DW-MOTIF - 

...

/UNITS=0 - 
/TERMINATION_DATE=19-MAY-2016 - 
/ACTIVITY=CONSTANT=100 - 

It's probably worth noting this comment from the PAK file:

$!  Note: A change has been made so that if an existing license exists with
$!        no termination/release date or a termination/release date greater
$!        than (or equal to) the termination/release in this file, the PAK 
$!        in this file will not be loaded.
$!        %X107880D3  %SHOW-I-NOLICMATCH, no licenses match search criteria
$!        %X107880CB  %SHOW-I-NOLICENSE, no licenses exist

I.e. if you have a non-expiring PAK already on the system, the
corresponding Hobbyist PAK will not be applied.  One situation where
this could cause problems is where you bought a system which came with
workstation PAKs but the graphics controller died so the system thinks
it's now a server.  Removing the original workstation PAKs and
re-applying the Hobbyist PAKs would resolve this situation.  Vice versa
for a server system to which you added a graphics controller from your
stock of goodies.

I'm pretty sure that this isn't your problem Phillip, since inadequate
licenses make themselves known pretty emphatically at startup, but feel
it's worth pointing out in case it's baffling someone out there.


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