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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <mjkq4s$e8l$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> Usual reason for DECwindows startup failures are incorrect process 
> quotas or incorrect system parameters, an incorrect DECwindows or 
> system or cluster configuration, system- or process-level file access 
> problems or file corruptions, hardware errors or unsupported hardware, 
> or bugs in OpenVMS, in the OpenVMS DECwindows support, or in DECwindows.
> 
> Usual path for resolution is working through the installation 
> requirements and confirming that sufficient resources and quota 
> settings are configured, verifying the DECwindows-related system 
> parameters including rationalizing and variously removing the usual 
> cruft that gets added to MODPARAMS.DAT followed by an AUTOGEN and a 
> reboot, determining that the DECwindows device-specific resolution and 
> configuration settings are correct if the device is "soft configured", 
> then working through the debug-level startup logs looking for any 
> obvious errors for DECwindows or for other lower-level hardware or 
> software, then applying patches --- patches are obviously not an option 
> for hobbyists --- and/or upgrading to the most current available versions 
> and applying patches.

Given that it worked before the upgrade and now no longer works, I'm 
pretty sure that it is a parameter or quota problem.  I would have 
thought that the upgrade would have increased parameter values if 
necessary, but maybe not.

I didn't see anything obviously related to this in the upgrade guide or 
release notes.

What system parameters should I be looking at?  What are recommended 
minimum values?  What about quotas and so on?  For which accounts?

First, I'll boot from 7.3-2 again and see what happens.