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Title:note 3 has pointer to current kit
Notice:note 3 has pointer to current kit
Moderator:PEACHS::GHEFF
Created:Wed May 29 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3301
Total number of notes:14905

3266.0. "3.0 server goes poof without a trace when starting" by CSC32::T_LONGBOTHAM (Clatu berrada nictu, Gort!) Fri Apr 11 1997 20:11

    I have a customer who has installed Excursion 3.0 on his intel pentium
    4.0 NT box with.  When he starts the X server the X splash screen comes up
    and the message log comes up.  The splash screen then goes away, the
    message log stays (with only a message indicating that the server is
    starting), and the server never actually starts successfully.  There
    is nothing in the message log, the or the event viewer and Dr. Watson does
    not report anything.  The server just fails to start seem,ingly with-
    out a trace.  There is no TCPIP running but Decnet is running and
    looping the node with ncp mirror running on the pc works successfully.
    NCP SHOW KNOWN LINKS does not show any stale links or any links at all.
    The customer has removed and reinstalled excursion several times with
    no change in the behavior.  Any help regarding this puzzling issue
    would be greatly appreciated.
    
    					Regards,
    					-Tom Longbotham
    					DTN 592-7287
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3266.1PEACHS::GHEFFDo you feel like swimming?Mon Apr 14 1997 13:047
    Hi Tom,
    
    Has he removed and reinstalled PATHWORKS 32 DECnet etc. yet?  That's
    the only thing left I can think of.  (Don't forget to use pws2dnst.exe
    after going through the procedure in pwreadme.txt.)
    
    #Gary
3266.2JAMIN::OSMANEric Osman, dtn 226-7122Tue Apr 15 1997 20:454
    I wonder if excursion thinks there's another excursion already running
    so it exits ?   (is there ?)
    
    /Eric
3266.3PEACHS::GHEFFDo you feel like swimming?Tue Apr 15 1997 21:264
    No.  Just one.  I don't think you'd get the splash screen if there were
    already one running.  It just goes away without any trace.
    
    #Gary
3266.4PEACHS::GHEFFDo you feel like swimming?Fri Apr 18 1997 17:307
    This was an odd one.  I can't claim any credit for finding it, the
    customer did.  The claim is that there was some ancient Western Digital
    software on the system -- a DOS-based utility called ezdrive -- that
    got carried over in some unspecified way to NT.  Once this was removed,
    eXcursion (and Norton Utilites) started to behave themselves.
    
    #Gary