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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <55635c74$0$1518$c3e8da3$12bcf670 at news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> > 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.
> 
> Can you confirm that this was the first reboot after the upgrade (which
> would have included a reboot or two, right ?)

Yes, the first reboot done "by hand", two months after the upgrade.

> what does "xhost"  show ?    Normally you would put ip addresses in there.

%DCL-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and spelling
 \XHOST\

That's not a VMS command.

> you you might try "xhost +local"   

Where?

> >> 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.
> 
> try netstat -a  (IIRC) this shows the real list of who is listening to
> what port.

That gives %SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort

> You need to define a logical to enable TCPIP connections in DECwindows.
> Otherwise it is just local and DECNET. And you shoudl have it in
> sylogicals.com because if decwindows is starts via sysman, it can start
> before your systartup_vms has finished.

Is this documented anywhere?  Normally this is set in
DECW$PRIVATE_SERVER_SETUP.COM, which SYS$MANAGER:DECW$STARTUP.COM reads.