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

[David Froble]

Hans Vlems wrote:
> To complicate things a little more, or at least adding to the confusion, 
> let me tell you that I've just completed the upgrade from 8.3 (unpatched) to 
> 8.4 on an XP1000 with 1.5 GB main memory.
> The system came up and showed a login screen on the graphics terminal 
> (SRM console variable set to serial).
> Initially keynoard and mouse appeared inoperable but that was because I put
> the connectors in the wrong outlets...
> That corrected, DECwindows worked for me. 
> The only post-upgrade action executed was running AUTHORIZE and set
> WSDEF=6000 for all accounts present on the system.
> At the moment UPDATE V10.0 was just installed and the system gets rebooted.
> 
> Which proves the point that that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with
> 8.4, neither unpatched nor patched.
> The only difference with your upgrade was that it was done on a V8.3
> platform.
> 
> So if you need values for SYSGEN or UAF parameters let me know.
> 
> Hans

Perhaps Philip should start over.  Either with a copy of his 7.? disk, 
or a clean disk.  Maybe something got hosed that will never be 
determined.  Instead, just try to get where he needs to be.