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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <21ae8e29-9b57-4080-8195-cea761c5f9f3 at googlegroups.com>,
johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk writes: 

> Given that the problem is reproducible on demand, have you tried logging
> on to the problematic system via network and, from that network session,
> using your favourite system tools to watch what's happening as you
> attempt to start DECwindows?

No, but, at your suggestion, from the console.

> Also, VMS has a handy thing called Accounting, which doesn't have an
> equivalent on many other allegedly 'modern' OSes.
> 
> A well-informed VMS admin can use Accounting to help diagnose issues
> which potentially involve things like unexpected process termination,
> quota problems, and such like.

Alas, I am not well informed!  :-|

> Is accounting enabled on the system in question? 

Yes.

> Have you looked at
> the accounting records of the relevant processes, specifically at
> the process' final status, and perhaps also at the quotas (anything
> at or near its limits may be of interest).

Good idea.

SYSTEM-F-IMGDMP at subprocess termination.

> See where I'm headed here? I know nothing about the specifics of the
> problem but these are some of the tactics I would be thinking about if
> I had this particular kind of problem. 

Maybe I can learn something about accounting in the process!

On a whim, I increased the number of global sections, and the loop now 
lasts longer before it stops.