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From: gringort@wsl.dec.com (Joel Gringorten)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.2 Xws Server (for monochrome 5000/120)
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.143916@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 20 Jun 91 21:39:16 GMT
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In article <scLz0d_00j5u41ol8m@andrew.cmu.edu>, jb3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon Allen Boone) writes:
|> 
|> I installed (straight from the distribution tape) the Xws server and
|> it works fine.  However, when I copy the Xws program to a different
|> partition (a seperated disk) and boot off that partition, it doesn't
|> work.  The error reported is:
|> 
|> 
|>         start Wed Jun 19 17:54:51 1991
|>         Creating DECnet socket: Protocol not supported
|>         couldn't open device

Um, I'm going to guess at this one. The DECnet error is because the kernel
is configured without DECnet.  This is ok and not related to the other problem,
which is that the device can't be opened.  

The reason you can't open the device might be one of several.  However,
the most likely is that you're trying to run the server interactively from
a user account?  The server device (/dev/mouse) is only accessible by 
root.  Try becoming root and see if you can run the server.  If this isn't
your problem, be sure you don't already have a server running (of course
that usually generates a different message.)  

If that doesn't work, let me know.

-joel