[Info-vax] satellite one hour ahead

Hans Bachner hans at bachner.priv.at
Wed Oct 26 09:25:57 EDT 2016


Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) schrieb am 26.10.2016 um 08:22:
> [snip]
>
> I have a cluster with three bootservers, each with its own system disk,
> and a satellite which boots off of one of the disks.  All machines have
> a graphics monitor and a VT as the serial console.  I upgraded one of
> the bootservers to 8.4 and DECwindows stopped working in that the CDE
> login doesn't come up.  It gets as far as the grey screen then stops.
> Thus, there is apparently some problem with my 8.4 (which is the
> hobbyist image).  Thus, I don't want to upgrade to 8.4 for fear of
> losing DECwindows/CDE.
>
> [snip]
>
> I've done upgrades several times, and the upgrade to 8.4 was
> straightforward.  Then DECwindows/CDE stopped working.  So, it's pretty
> clear that there is a problem there somewhere.  Have I found it?  Not
> yet.  It might be that the problem doesn't always occur.  In particular,
> it might not occur after a fresh install.
> [snip]

Probably not.

I just recently did a fresh install of V8.4 on an AlphaStation DS15 
without applying any patches because my only goal was to upgrade to 
VSI's Alpha evaluation kit. CDE worked just fine out of the box.

Hans.



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