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- From: justin@nx30.mik.uky.edu (justin sullivan)
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- Subject: Re: HP VUE doesn't come up
- Keywords: HP VUE configuration problem trouble
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 21:53:45 GMT
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- In <1992Dec15.160714.3942@news.arc.nasa.gov> okuyama@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Darin Okuyama YR) writes:
-
- >I have an HP9000/730 running HP-UX 8.07. I also
- >have instant ignition. HP VUE worked the first
- >time I brought up the machine, but subsequent
- >reboots have been less successful. It seems the
- >OS is trying to start VUE but it fails, and after
- >a while it gives up and I get the non-window
- >environment. For some reason the "root" user
- >has a little more success than normal users but
- >far from regular success. I have gone through
- >the "HP VUE Configuration Guide", and made the
- >appropriate modifications to inittab but that
- >doesn't fix the problem.
-
- I had this problem myself.. It's not obvious.
- When you're running it as root, it will work (until you reboot), but it's
- a big mistake. Not only will it work, but it will continue to run as root,
- so any of its suprocesses have root permission! <oops!> At least, that's
- what ps and w checks show. I tried simply starting it up as root and logging
- out, and when someone logged in, it showed that their vue stuff was running
- as root, as a result of being spawned from the root'ed vuelogin.
-
- Anyway, here's what I had to do to my inittab:
-
- hp750 > less inittab
- init:3:initdefault:
-
- ...
-
- vue :34:respawn:/etc/vuerc # VUE validation and invocation
-
- The first portion is what runstate your system is going to boot in.
- The vue entry shows what runstates vue will automatically startup in.
- After my baby died and I was resurrecting it, I finally noticed that it
- had:
-
- init:2:initdefault:
-
- But the vue entry remained the same, and that's why vue didn't pop-up
- after a reboot like it 'should.'
-
- I hope this helps..
-