topic Urgent Help required on dde in Operating System - HP-UX

Urgent Help required on dde

Sathish C — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:27:04 GMT

Hi
When I am running dde as a non-root user on HP-UX box , I am getting the following error
softmsgsrv failed : autostart_failure - could'nt automatically start a message server , but as a root user I do not have any problem in opening the dde debugger gui . I am sure this is to with some permission problem . can some one show some light

Re: Urgent Help required on dde

Peter Godron — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:41:38 GMT

Sathish,
normally root has a narrower path than root.
Compare the environment ("env") on both users and check for permissions on files.
Start with the executable itself and then check libraries.
Any other error messages (dmesg,syslog.log)?

Re: Urgent Help required on dde

Peter Godron — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:48:43 GMT

Satish,
also ensure the following works (from another thread):
in no windows mode run
/usr/bms/bin/softmsgsrv -norootwindow
...any errors ?

ensure correct perms on /etc/hosts and also run VUE diagnostic -> dr_vue (/usr/contrib/bin/X11 )

ll /opt/softbench/bin ?

in /usr/adm/inetd.sec the hostname MUST be allowed for 'mserve' and 'spc'.

ensure /usr/spool/sockets has correct permissions.

If only root affected
mv roots .vueprofile and .profile and .vue directory out of the way and then attempt another login ...

Any patches missing?

Re: Urgent Help required on dde

Sathish C — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:41:27 GMT

Hi
Thank you for your responce , anyway I have done all those things also from the same thread as you refered , but no luck , as I specfied before softmsgsrv is the problem , he tries to open a socket and fail to do so as a non-root .

Re: Urgent Help required on dde

Peter Godron — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 04:08:56 GMT

Sathish,
you are not running on 10.20 or older by any chance?
Regards