topic Re: Problem with X in Operating System - HP-UX

Problem with X

Richard Davies_6 — Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:14:28 GMT

Hi All

I have a HP 9000 715/100, with fresh install of HPUX 11.00. X started fine during the install, but now hangs. dtlogin consumes 100% CPU. Screen shows mouse icon. I need to telnet in and kill X.

Any ideas?

THanks

Richard

Re: Problem with X

T G Manikandan — Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:40:57 GMT

Just telnet in to the server

#/sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc stop
This should stop all the dt sessions.
then you can start it
#/sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc start

Re: Problem with X

Alex Glennie — Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:43:23 GMT

try on the local graphics console.

Or TG's suggestion or ...

If that fails try killing the dtlogin parent or drop the run-level to 2 then back to 3.

For errors : check in /var/dt/Xerrors before killing X.

what apps where running on the system immediately prior to the hang ? Is dtlogin the process eating cpu or could it be the associated rpc.ttdbserver process ?

Re: Problem with X

Michael Steele_2 — Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:58:38 GMT

will abort a startup process during bootup and during the trasition into run levels.

Re: Problem with X

Donald Kok — Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:36:53 GMT

Hi,

This has mostly something to do with name resolving. When you followed the prior recomandations, you can check these with nslookup.

Goodluck
Donald

Re: Problem with X

Steve Steel — Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:04:45 GMT

Hi

/usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt will give a good idea of what is wrong. run it.

Name resolution is most likely.

Steve Steel

Re: Problem with X

Angus Crome — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:06:45 GMT

For name resolution, try editing (or adding) the file /etc/nsswitch.conf and reverse the dns and files entries. Our general consensus is this; set the machine to look at the /etc/hosts file first (files), that way, it can always resolve its own IP address, even when the network or DNS is broken. You might also check to see that you have at least 128Mb of memory. 11.00 and 11.11 require more memory to run than 10.20 did. 64Mb and 96Mb generally are only enough to boot the system, as soon as you log in, it starts swapping like crazy.