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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>In your ssh session, I would think you could disable the QVSS device in your VAX simulator configuration file and it would run VMS just fine. If that doesn’t work (or if you never actually had the QVSS device enabled ), you could uninstall whatever libsdl2-dev package you’ve got on your Mac and then rebuild the VAX simulator and then run the rebuilt simulator.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Simh [mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Baker, Lawrence M<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 28, 2020 1:48 PM<br><b>To:</b> simh@trailing-edge.com<br><b>Subject:</b> [Simh] Can't start VAX from SSH<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>I am working from home and can only SSH in to my desktop Mac at work. Our unhelpful IT department automatically patches and reboots our system, which must have happened last night. That terminated the SIMH VAX I left running. Normally, I leave my desktop logged in. Until today, I have had no trouble starting my SIMH VAX remotely.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Today, no one is logged in to my desktop. When I SSH remotely and try to start my SIMH VAX, it fails immediately with the error message:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><blockquote style='border:none #C8C8C8 1.0pt;border-left:solid #C8C8C8 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#666666'>$ ./vax-20200419<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#666666'>_RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO establish the default connection to the WindowServer, _CGSDefaultConnection() is NULL.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#666666'>SDL Video subsystem can't initialize<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Is there any way around this short of driving to work and logging in to my desktop?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id=Signature><div id=divtagdefaultwrapper><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Larry Baker<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>US Geological Survey<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>650-329-5608<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>baker@usgs.gov<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>