VMS V7.3-1/ DECwindows V1.3-0 DECW$SERVER_0 won't run after Graphics ECO 4

[Galen Tackett]

I just updated an Alpha DS10L V7.3-1 system to DECwindows V1.3 and the current (as of Jun 16) set of Alpha ECO kits, including Graphics V4.

Once I did this I was unable to get DECW$SERVER_0 to run. After some research I figured out that the DECW$SERVER_DIX image from Graphics V4.0 was probably at fault.

Back on July 12, 2005 John Santos reported a similar problem over on comp.os.vms that he'd run into this and solved it by restoring the original version of DECW$SERVER_DIX.

I tried this, and sure enough I can get the server process to run now, and I get the usual CDE login screen.

Do any of the HP folks (or other gurus) know what's going wrong when Graphics V4 is installed, and whether John's fix is the best way to get around it?

[I'm also opening another topic for a another DECwindows problem on the same system. It might not be related, but I don't know for certain.]

[John Gillings]

Galen,
What happens with V7.3-2?

[Galen Tackett]

The farthest I've got with ECOs on 7.3-2 is Update V5 and Graphics V3. No problems there.

[Benjamin Levy]

this has been discussed previously in this forum. Try searching the previous articles.
There was a workaround, which I think was to reinstall graphics-3

[Galen Tackett]

This topic has become moot for me. We replaced the problem V7.3-1 system with a V7.3-2 system that doesn't have this problem with DECwindows login.