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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) skrev den 2015-05-25 10:34:
> In article <mjumdu$vq8$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
> <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>
>>>>> TCPIP SH DEV shows no port 6000.
>>>>
>>>>      Not a surprise unless decw$server_transports
>>>> (DECW$PRIVATE_SERVER_SETUP.COM) includes TCPIP.  Around here
>>>> (V8.3 is up at the moment):
>>>
>>> Indeed.  Following EPLAN's suggestion, I reduced this to just LOCAL.
>>> Didn't help.
>>>
>>
>> And "This" was about this?
>>
>> $ decw$server_transports == "DECNET,LOCAL,TCPIP"
>>
>> What was it reduced *from*? Did it include TCPIP before?
>
> Yes, TCPIP and LOCAL.
>
>> Note that one of the (few) hits on DWT-F-DWTABORT in Google
>> is about someone not having TCPIP configured for DECW. Or
>> not having some "UCX driver" loaded or whatever. Some posts
>> used other stacks but it was always some "transport" issues.
>
> But I am talking about the login box displaying on a monitor connected
> to the box where the login-box process should be running.  Surely LOCAL
> is used for that?
>

Well, as I said, I know nothing... :-)

What I find weird, is that you get DWTABORT (right?) but there
is no was to find out *what* that "fatal error" actualy is.

Anyway, *I* do not think this is some simple SYSGEN or UAF
parameter that is a little "off". It more sounds like some
fundamentional error in the configuration or that something
in the upgrade from 7.x to 8.4 brooke. Some part/file from
the old system has stayed, or something...

I'd also try a fresh 8.4 install on a clean scratch disk
on the same system just to verify the hardware.

Jan-Erik.