[Info-vax] grey screen of death

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <5561eda6$1 at news.langstoeger.at>, peter at langstoeger.at (Peter
'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER) writes: 

> In article <mjse36$10jn$2 at news.kjsl.com>, helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes:
> >If I try to launch an application to display on the graphics monitor 
> 
> What appl: DECW$EXAMPLES:ICO.EXE perhaps?

DECW$CLOCK.

> >connected to the 8.4 node, I get:
> >
> >Xlib: connection to "_WSA16:" refused by server
> >Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> >X Toolkit Error: Can't Open display
> >%DWT-F-NOMSG, Message number 03AB8204
> 
> How did you do this?
> I thought your DECW$SERVER process is dying?

No.  It is looping but then gives up before doing anything.  It doesn't 
die.  The DTLOGIN processes die.

> To fix an X11 server security problem, you need
> *) a running X11 server (DECW$SERVER_0 process)

I have it.

> *) ways to affect its security
> -) by defining access for the initial phase of the X11 server
> via the files SYS$STARTUP:DECW$SERVER_ACCESS_ALLOWED.DAT (and another one
> I can't remember now - something with TRUST or so) when there is no session
> -) by defining access for the current session (via DECW$SESSIONMGR and
> its saved settings via SYS$LOGIN:[.DT.SESSIONS.CURRENT]DT.RESOURCES file)
> 
> >I suspect that the message doesn't indicate the real problem.
> 
> I second this. Although I think, if you have an X11 server running
> for some seconds (during them you got this error message above)
> and then the server is dying (but before DECW$GREET/DTLOGIN is starting
> it could well be a resource/quota problem.
> 
> The fact, that the server ran after the VMS upgrade, doesn't mean it gets
> enough resources now (now that you finished some more upgrade tasks ;-).
> 
> After your DECW$SERVER_0 process died, how does the error message
> (for accessing it from remote) look like then? Have you checked it?
> (I expect a "Xlib: ... Network error: Connection refused" message then)

The DECW$SERVER_0 does not die.

> btw: Have you run SYS$UPDATE:LIBDECOMP already?

Yes.