topic Re: Login prompt is not coming in Operating System - HP-UX

Login prompt is not coming

bazigardu — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:23:37 GMT

Hi All

I have installed the c8000 machine by hpux 11.11,everything is working fine,but one issue I'm facing is in CDE when I am login through root,after opening terminal window # prompt is coming,but when user is logging through their own userid it enterning,but in terminal windown prompt is notcoming.I tried trough telnet there also same issue. can u tell me what could be the problem.I tried to create the user that usr id it is taking but whatever customer is using not taking,there r using catia application. waiting for ur reply..

Regards
Suman

Re: Login prompt is not coming

Hasan Atasoy — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:30:09 GMT

hi suman ;

is /etc/hosts is readble by everyone.

Hasan.

Re: Login prompt is not coming

Wim Rombauts — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:44:07 GMT

Where is the HOME directory of the user located ? Is it locally on the workstation ? Or is it on an NFS-server ?

I have had similar behaviour before with users having their homedirectories on an NFS-server.

Re: Login prompt is not coming

whiteknight — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:27:49 GMT

Suman,

I will perform the CDE diagnostic first.

there is a tool called dr_dt, you can run it will check your CDE

# dr_dt

Welcome to dr_dt. I will examine your system to determine if HP CDE
can function properly. If I find problems or concerns, or just want
to supply some information, I will issue INFO/WARNING/ERROR statements.
I will not make any changes myself, but might suggest that you change
something. If you are not sure if a particular change should be made,
check with your system administrator.

WK

Re: Login prompt is not coming

whiteknight — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:29:02 GMT

suman,

here is the path, in case you cannot run

# whence dr_dt
/usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt

WK

Re: Login prompt is not coming

bazigardu — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:39:00 GMT

Hi All

Thanks for ur support. Actually before this server is using as a NFS server now they made standalone,might be the problem.user isn't in home directory.it is like /catia/usr/username

Regrds
Suman

Re: Login prompt is not coming

Wim Rombauts — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:36:56 GMT

I think it is stil important to find out the homedirectory of the user : "pwget | grep ".

The behavour in my case was that the history file (.sh_history) was on a remote NFS fileserver and that *something* in the client/server file NFS-locking was no longer functioning correctly.

So be sure to doublecheck the homedirectory entry in the output of "pwget | grep ", check where the history file is (or should be) and if it is there.

If you are really on a standalone workstation, this should not be an issue.

Maybe, just as a test, set the following in your .profile : "HISTFILE=/tmp/myhistfile" and attempt a new lgin.