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From: rkl@anduin.cs.liverpool.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: How to fix faulty VUE installations (was: problem with VUE)
Message-ID: <1990Oct24.104320.3025@anduin.cs.liverpool.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Oct 90 09:43:20 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University
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The bug with the shipped VUE is that the file /usr/softbench/config/softinit
is not shipped with read access for all (chmod +r fixes it).

Here's how I installed and fixed VUE from scratch as root (and, yes, I had no
documentation either and did it off my own cuff !)...

Getting from tape (yes, you should run update, but this was a beta-test):

cd /tmp
tcio -iv /dev/update.src | tar xvf -
cd /
zcat /tmp/inst_tape.Z | tar xvf -

Customising (again, update will handle all this):

/system/BMS/customize HP-MC68020
/system/VUE_RUN/customize HP-MC68020
/system/VUE_FONTS/customize update
cd /usr/bin/X11
mv X X.old
mv /tmp/X.703P X
chown bin X
chgrp bin X
chmod 755 X

Local customisation:

cd /etc
mv inittab inittab.xlogin   (Note: We were running motif/xlogin prior to this)
cp inittab.xlogin inittab
vi inittab
Did a merge edit of /etc/newconfig/vue/vue.inittab and /etc/inittab...
    Changed 'init' line (run-level 2 instead of 3), 
    Changed 'cons' line (from 12456 to 1456),
    Added 'vue' line on the end.
chmod +r /usr/softbench/config/softinit   (yes, THIS IS THE BUG FIX)
cd /usr/lib/X11/vue/Vuelogin
mvcp Xconfig
vi Xconfig
(Added 2 lines, one for the timezone -> GMT0BST and another for userPath to
 be set to the usual user's PATH)
cd /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults
mvcp XSession
vi XSession
(Changed XSession*CommandPath and XSession*TimeZone)
who -c (Check to see if anyone else is on and if not, then...)
cd /   (Why doesn't the shutdown shell script do this ?)
/etc/shutdown -r 0

Notes:

1. "mvcp" above is a shell script something we've written locally to do a

   mv $1 $1.orig
   cp $1.orig $1

   This way, the timestamp on the .orig copy is retained.

2. /system/BMS/customize inserts lines into /etc/services, /usr/adm/inetd.sec,
   and /etc/inetd.conf.

3. /system/VUE_RUN/customize replaces xload and hpterm !
   Old copies are saved in a directory called /usr/bin/X11/HPUX7_00.

4. 'No Windows' mode will not work unless you removed the 2 from the 'cons'
   line in /etc/inittab.

   To disable VUE, edit /etc/inittab and change the init line from

   init:2:initdefault:

   to

   init:3:initdefault:

   Now add a 2 to the cons line so that

   cons:1456:respawn...blah blah blah

   becomes

   cons:12456:respawn...blah blah blah

   and then reboot with shutdown -r 0. Do the reverse to enable VUE.

5. Errors for a particular user are stored in $HOME/.vue/errorlog.
   This is a *very important* file - it gives invaluable information
   that should have been displayed when the error occurred of course.

I hope all this helps. If you've used update to install VUE, a lot of
the stuff will have been done for you, but the chmod +r bug fix is
probably still needed.

Richard K. Lloyd,       *** This is a MicroVAX II running VAX/VMS V5.3-1 ***
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