Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

664.0. "loginout accvios intermittently" by CSSE32::MERMELL (Window Pain) Mon Apr 24 1989 18:21

On booting and starting up DECWindows, the login window appears
for a few seconds then disappears.  LOGINOUT has aborted with an
access violation.  (I see this from the accounting record).
If I abort the server and resubmit DECW$startup the same thing happens.

This is happening on one node (VS2 with 11 mb) of a many-node cluster.  
It's not happening on any others.  No h/w errors are reported (sho err).
It's running VMS version T5.2-41S.

There's nothing strange in sys$specific.  There's a cluster-common 
sysuaf so I know there's nothing funny in the system account record.
The node is in a different area from the boot node, but this is true
for other satellites with no problems.

There's nothing funny in MODPARAMS.DAT.  I did an autogen/reboot.
The problem persists.  DECW$STARTUP.COM does not report any problems
or bad parameters.  There are enough global sections and global
pages.

If I define/exec/table=decw$logical_names decw$login_log <filename>
to try to get more info, every startup of decwindows will now
successfully invoke a login window and the log file is created but
empty!! It will not fail!  From this I might infer that loginout
had trouble talking to OPA0: when that was its sys$error, but I
can't find anything funny regarding this node's treatment of OPA0.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what to look for next?