HP VUE version 3.0 graphical user interface

[gse1meixsell]

hello i am an active duty sailor with the united states navy and i am having an issue with a computer upon initial boot up. some background informaton i am not an IT or super computer savy but have been given the task to learn about this console and get it up and running. 

my issue is with a HP-VUE login this is the exact error i recive.

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the x-server can not be started on display rep5....

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suspending HP VUE...

press [return} for login prompt.

log in. HP VUE will resume shortly after you log out.

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resuming HP VUE

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and the message continues to reteat i have no information in any of my tecnical documents for this password. other than this information here 

HEWLLET PACKARD MODEL 744

User Interface - HP VUE version 3.0 graphical user interface

1-1.7 Operating System Overview. Your workstation uses the HP-UX operating system, version 9.05 or System

10.0. Instant Ignition systems, (systems with pre-loaded software), have X-windows and Hewlett-Packard’s

graphical user interface, HP VUE version 3.0 (or later), installed and configured.

Your workstation uses the HP-UX operating system, version 9.05 or System 10.0. Instant Ignition systems,

(systems with pre-loaded software), Overview have X-windows and Hewlett-Packard’s graphical user interface,

HP VUE version 3.0 (or later), installed and configured.

Please refer to the “Instant Ignition System Configuration Information” sheet that shipped with your system

for details on configuration.

If your Instant Ignition system does not have the kernel preconfigured with all of the device drivers you need,

refer to the manual System Administration Tasks HP 9000 Series 700 Computers to reconfigure your kernel.

If you have any questions about Instant Ignition, refer to Using Your HP Workstation for more information.

i dont have acces to these documents. any help with this issue would be greatly appreceated. 

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] i am not an IT or super computer savy [...]

   How much don't you know about HP-UX (or any other UNIX-like) OS?

   Who normally administers this stuff?  And does anyone do any
house-keeping, or does it just run until it doesn't?  Or are we trying
to resurrect an old/dead system?  Does anyone know the "root" password?

> [...] i have no information in any of my tecnical documents for this
> password. other than this information here

   Eh?  Even if VUE were working, I'd expect a user name and password to
be needed to get logged in.

   Disclaimer: I haven't used a system like this in some decades, and I
don't have a live one, so I'm working from memory.

> HEWLLET PACKARD MODEL 744

   Nice antique you have there.  I would not bet on getting any help
from HP[E] itself, but one never knows.  Some basic info:

      https://www.openpa.net/systems/hp-9000_743_744-vme.html
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_User_Environment
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System

> the x-server can not be started on display rep5....

   HP VUE is the fancy user-interface (keyboard, mouse/pointer,
graphical display) which is built on the X Window System.  If the X
server can't start for some reason, then the VUE overlay is doomed.  Of
course, the first question would be "Why can't the X server be started?"

> press [return} for login prompt.

   Did you?  I'd expect that to give you a command-line log-in prompt,
which, given a valid user name and password, should let you get to a
shell prompt, where you could do some exploration.  I'd also expect a
successful command-line log-in to pause the attempts to start VUE.

   If you can get logged in, a command like the following might provide
a little basic info about your system and its OS:

      uname -a

   Knowing nothing, but trying to guess what could inhibit the X server,
I might look to see if I had one or more full storage (disk)
partitions.  A command like "df" or "bdf" might help with that.

   I might also try to find some system log files, which might offer
some clues.  For example, "/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log".  If such log
files are allowed to grow forever, then eventually the disk(s) will
fill, and that can cause problems of many types.

      https://community.hpe.com/t5/x/x/td-p/2894492

   If no one knows a good user_name+password combination, there are
still things which can be done ("single-user mode"), but I'd need to do
some research to (try to) find out how to do that on an antique of that
vintage.