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- From: rdj@bass.world (Rajesh Jathar)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Window manager???
- Message-ID: <RDJ.93Jan24225439@bass.world>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 03:54:39 GMT
- Article-I.D.: bass.RDJ.93Jan24225439
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- Hi! At the outset itself let me say that I am not a systems person,
- but a biomed engineer struggling with this thankless task. Having
- got that of my chest, let me dive into the problem:
-
- We are a small lab using a VAX 11/780 running VMS 4.7. We are in the
- process of moving onto a VAXstation 3100 running VMS 5.4-1.
- Currently, I am the only person who logs on/uses that machine. There
- is something particularly disturbing about this machine. I leave it
- idle overnight, and when I go into work the next morning I find
- thatthe window manager has crashed! (I attribute it to the window
- manager because I can log in from another terminal and everything
- works fine). The message I see on the console is that it is verifying
- the mounting of the system disk (dka300) and sometimes another
- (dka200) as well. The only remedy I have at the moment is to reboot
- the system. I'm sure you can tell that is extremely inconvenient and
- will be more so, when we will have upto 10 people logged on at one
- time. I'm sure you must have guessed by now that I am looking for a
- way to restart the window manager (if that is what is ailing) without
- rebooting the system. Also how can I prevent this from happening? Am
- I doing something wrong like keeping too many windows open, even if
- they are idle ( I never have more than 6 windows open at any given
- time)? Could it be a bad disk? Are there any diagnostics I can run?
-
- Other clues:
- On rebooting I found that the time was off by 12 hours (failing
- battery back-up?)
- I was backing some stuff up to a 1.3Gb 4mm SCSI tape drive and crashed
- the manager because I had absent-mindedly forgotten to insert the
- cassette (same sort of error message - verifying mount of the tape
- drive mka500)
-
- I would appreciate any comments/suggestions/fixes on the topic. Many
- thanks in advance...
-
- - Raj
- rdj@neuro.tch.harvard.edu
- rdj@acs.bu.edu
-