topic Re: system corrupted in Operating System - HP-UX

system corrupted

Fadia Almarei — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 05:24:32 GMT

HI All
i have a problem on my Hp server , the power has been off on it many times , and after i start the system i start to put my user name and password and when i press ok it give me the folowing message
"Unable to initialize or connect to the desktop messaging system.Check your $Home/.dt/errorlog for more information.Press Ok and your session will exit."

and when i press ok it give me the following message
"Messaging system Inoperative

To Restart.
1) Save all open data files.
2) logout.
3) Login again.

Note : The current session will not be saved. When you are ready to begin the restart process, click [Ok] and proceed to save your files.

Ok Help
"
what should i do for that and what is really happened.

BR,

Re: system corrupted

Simon Hargrave — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 05:26:46 GMT

Have you checked the output of the .dt/errorlog as the message suggests? Perhaps attach that file to a message here?

Re: system corrupted

Shaikh Imran — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 05:35:14 GMT

hi,
Are you trying to get into a application directly with this login ?
I mean is the .profile configured for the user to directly take you to the application?
Please check the following:
Have you tried to with other user login ?
Are all other users able to login properly ?
What does the login from console say ?
Can you try root login ?

Pls revert back ..

Regards,

Re: system corrupted

Naveej.K.A — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 05:40:08 GMT

hi,

is your loopback address / ip address configured properly.

in short? is your network configuration proper??

with best wishes
Naveej

Re: system corrupted

sreejith_4 — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 06:08:11 GMT

Hi,

You must have some entries in your .profile file which loads some application which is related to the error you are getting.
Edit your .profile and remove those entries , log off and check it out.
It would be better if you can attach your .profile

Regards
Sreejith M

Re: system corrupted

Bill Hassell — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 07:54:41 GMT

This is most likely a networking problem. Your workstation is running Xwindows which requries a valid network connection to come up properly. If the LAN is connected and the communications light is on, then most likely name resolution is a problem. See if you can ping your workstation from another system, and if so, try telnet. If telnet works OK, rename the /etc/resolv.conf file temporarily and then go back to your console and try a login. If that works, DNS is not working properly and you'll need to have some fix your DNS server.

Re: system corrupted

doug hosking — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 07:38:03 GMT

I agree with Bill. Often this is caused by problems with networking configuration, such as if you moved the system to a new location while the power was off and had to change the IP address to a different subnet, etc.

If you changed anything in the network configuration, it might be a good idea to run /sbin/set_parms to reset the appropriate network parameters consistently.

/sbin/set_parms hostname
/sbin/set_parms ip_address
/sbin/set_parms addl_netwrk