[Info-vax] grey screen of death

[David Froble]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <cs90dkFf0d9U7 at mid.individual.net>,
> bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes: 
> 
>> 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. 
> 
> That is what I suspected, but a) the installation tries to figure this 
> out itself, b) normally error messages appear when they are not 
> sufficient and c) other folks are running fine with the same parameters.
> 

Those parameters are for the system, not a single process.

Are others running HBVS?

Are others running a cluster?

Are others running "whatever else you're running"?

Have you compared ALL the SYSGEN parameters from one of your older VMS 
versions with the V8.4 SYSGEN parameters?