topic Re: CDE: Invalid folder specification in Operating System - HP-UX

CDE: Invalid folder specification

Francisco J. Soler — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 10:21:14 GMT

Hi all,

I have installed HP-UX 11i v1 in a 785/B1000 Visualize workstation.
The initial instalation went fine, no errors messages but after configure the new system and reboot no CDE login screen appears.

I connected via telnet and installed the support plus (GOLDQPK11i depot), then the system reboots and CDE login screen worked fine.

Now I log into the system like root and the browser windows shows me the error:

Invalid folder specification, /

I can't open any tool window, only the Terminal.

Any help will be very appreciated.

Frank.

Re: CDE: Invalid folder specification

D Block 2 — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 10:37:24 GMT

Frank,
how much free memory do you have on the small work-station ? 11iv1 might take most memory after your upgrade.

Re: CDE: Invalid folder specification

Alex Lavrov. — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 10:39:21 GMT

Hey,

can you please post here the contents of /etc/hosts file?

Alex.

Re: CDE: Invalid folder specification

Reynaldo Rosario — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 11:13:51 GMT

Hola Francisco,

Trata corriendo el utilitario que estÃ¡ en /usr/contrib/bin/dr_dt para ver si consigues resolver tu problema.

AquÃ lo que parece es que hay un problema de permisos.

Â¿Has intentado entrar como otro usuario?

Sa

Re: CDE: Invalid folder specification

Francisco J. Soler — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 12:09:07 GMT

Hi Tom:
my bdf:
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol3 204800 84280 119640 41% /
/dev/vg00/lvol1 295024 59208 206312 22% /stand
/dev/vg00/lvol8 1298432 523408 769712 40% /var
/dev/vg00/lvol7 2314240 1379352 927648 60% /usr
/dev/vg00/lvol4 204800 2440 200848 1% /tmp
/dev/vg00/lvol6 2691072 1849160 835360 69% /opt
/dev/vg00/lvol5 1052672 57784 987176 6% /home

my swapinfo:
Kb Kb Kb PCT START/ Kb
TYPE AVAIL USED FREE USED LIMIT RESERVE PRI NAME
dev 786432 0 786432 0% 0 - 1 /dev/vg00/lvol2
reserve - 116732 -116732
memory 252148 154844 97304 61%
total 1038580 271576 767004 26% - 0 -

Hi Alex, my host file:
192.168.0.199 my.name.com name
127.0.0.1 localhost loopback

The error is:
Window title: File Manager error
Inside the window: invalid folder specification, /

Frank.

Re: CDE: Invalid folder specification

Alex Lavrov. — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 12:30:29 GMT

Hey, it's exactly the problem I saw with Solaris.

Can you try, just for testing, to remove the the full qualified name? And leave only "name"? (without "domain.name")

I think it will solve it, because there is some strange issue with File Manager and /etc/hosts file.

Alex.

Re: CDE: Invalid folder specification

Francisco J. Soler — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 12:33:14 GMT

Thanks to all for your responses.
I found a solution:

The nsswitch was configured by default to try NIS but NIS was not configured in the system so, I configured nsswitch to files first and then DNS no NIS, then File Manager worked.

I don't know why but now works fine.

Frank.