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From: mckay@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Dwight D. Mckay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: DECstation 3100 refusing login under decwindows?
Message-ID: <7309@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 91 23:13:15 GMT
Reply-To: mckay@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Dwight D. Mckay)
Organization: Purdue University
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I have just started administrating a group of DECstations and have hit what
I think should be a simple problem which has me baffled.

I have a 3100 which I can login into via rlogin and a non-decwindows console
login, but not via the decwindows login.  Dxsession drops core.  Dbx shows it
looping in get_ueopts and then dying.

Does this sound familiar to you?  Where would you look for problems?  I've
compared the binaries against a known working machine with rdist -b.  I've
checked all the device entries I can think of in /dev.  I'm used to Suns so
I don't know what DEC-specific magic files I should check.

Any help would be appreciated.  Please send me e-mail and I will post the
answer to the problem.

Thanks!

--Dwight D. McKay, Purdue University, Department of Biological Sciences
--Office: LILY B-145, Phone: (317) 494-4481
--mckay@gimli.bio.purdue.edu