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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <5562b2c8$0$26213$b1db1813$79461190 at news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> I think Hoff may be onto something. He mentioned authorization. Is it
> possible that the server (aka the X terminal) doesn't authorize
> connections that are local or remote  ?

First, in such a case, wouldn't it just not work, as opposed to the 
looping which I am seeing?

Second, how could this have changed?  Remember, it DID work after the 
upgrade; it stopped after the reboot.  No reason to expect a reboot to 
have changed this.  It seems to be a resource problem, though why it 
showed up only after the reboot is not clear.

> However, this would have happened at the upgrade time when files were
> changed. not later.

Right.

> If you get the grey screen, and get display DECW$CLOCK on it or start
> the login, it may not be a resource issue.

I can't display anything on it.

> Have you enabled incoming TCPIP connections on the workstation's
> decwindows ? 

Yes.  Worked in the past.

> If so, have you tried to see if someone is listening to
> port 6000 on that node ? (is it netstat that does it on VMS , i forget).

TCPIP SH DEV shows no port 6000.

> If you login via LAT/telnet, how many DECW logical names are created at
> a point where you get the grey screen ?

Logical names are the same on all nodes, except that on the 8.4 node, 
the DECW$SESSION* logical names (with lower-case translations) are not 
defined.