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

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Friday, 22 May 2015 11:25:03 UTC+1, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)  wrote:
> In article <d069aacf-889d-4c36-a08f-46edb03dd2f0 at googlegroups.com>, Hans
> Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes: 
> 
> > one Alpha Server 1200 5/533 runs VMS 8.4, no patches AFAIK.
> > The system boots with console set to serial. As soon as the boot job finishes I get a DCE logon screen on the grpahics console, which works as expected.
> > The graphics card is an Elsa Gloria.
> 
> Similar, except I have an XP1000.  (I also have a 1200, but I would 
> rather get working what was working before rather than start trying out 
> all combinations.)
> 
> > Process quota for system:
> > Process Quotas:
> >  Account name: SYSTEM
> >  CPU limit:                      Infinite  Direct I/O limit:       150
> >  Buffered I/O byte count quota:    255808  Buffered I/O limit:     150
> >  Timer queue entry quota:             100  Open file quota:        128
> >  Paging file quota:                688000  Subprocess quota:        10
> >  Default page fault cluster:           64  AST quota:              298
> >  Enqueue quota:                      3999  Shared file limit:        0
> >  Max detached processes:                0  Max active jobs:          0
> 
> Could you post the output of MC AUTHORIZE SHOW SYSTEM for easier 
> comparison?
> 
> I updated mine to match those of SMS, who also has an XP1000, but still 
> no change.

Are you able to post the accounting info of your failing process ?

If quotas are the problem, the accounting info *may* reveal what needs to
be changed, and *may* avoid unnecessary speculation (hey hold on...).