[Info-vax] grey screen of death

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <slrnmltk5q.dh0.jkb at rayleigh.systella.fr>,
	JKB <jkb at koenigsberg.invalid> writes:
> Le Thu, 21 May 2015 23:14:13 +0000 (UTC),
> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> écrivait :
>> In article <slrnmlrqko.6tf.jkb at rayleigh.systella.fr>, JKB
>><jkb at koenigsberg.invalid> writes: 
>>
>>> > After the first proper reboot after going to 8.4, the graphics console 
>>> > brings up the grey screen of death.  It did work immediately after the 
>>> > reboot.  Restarting the DECwindows server appears to work but doesn't 
>>> > help.
>>> >
>>> > Any ideas?
>>> 
>>> 	Any idea. I have the same issue with my AS800.
>>
>> Interesting.  This makes it even more likely that there are insufficient 
>> quotas and/or values of system parameters somewhere.
> 
> 	I don't use special quota and 8.3 ran like a charm on this AS800.
> 
>> Do you have UPDATE 5 patch as well?
> 
> 	I don't. I have seen this issue when I have installed 8.4 a long
> 	time ago and I have posted here my constatations.
> 
>> If someone could find a fix for this in a more recent UPDATE patch, 
>> maybe that could be made available to us hobbyists.
> 

I haven't run DECWindows on VMS for a very long time, but in my
halcyon VMS days I ran DECWindows on everything.  I remember
having to up a number of quotas in SYSGEN.  I would suppose that
additional requirements of the newer OS version may require these
to be even higher than what used to be recommended. 

bill


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