topic Re: CDE not starting up in Operating System - HP-UX

CDE not starting up

BAUKnight — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:35:46 GMT

dears,
i have a HP VISUALIZE J5600 on a site, with PN: A5991A, it is running hp ux 10.20 ACE with a special application, we need to upgrade to hp ux 11.0 to install update for the relecommunication app. we were facing HW problem preventing the upgrade to hp ux 11, so we had to replace the MB and VGA card, i tested the ux 11 installation on a free hard drive, it completed with no problem, but i could not get the CDE to start, i ensured that the start up run level in the /etc/inittab is 4, which is the standard HP GUI, but unfortunately i could not get the CDE run, i thought it might be a driver issue for the vga card, but when i returned the 10.20 ACD hard drives to the machine, it boot up to the command line login prompt, but again i could not get the CDE or any GUI, unfortunately we can't use the station without the GUI, because the telecom app need to run in GUI mode,,
please all advie with this issue, i checked the ITRC for such issue, but no case helped me.
my app is critical and unfortunately i can not start it up yet,, faster replied highly appreciated.

Re: CDE not starting up

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:52:08 GMT

Shalom,

11 and 11i both default after cold install to not start the font server.

/sbin/init.d/xfs start

vi /etc/rc.config.d/xfs

Set the first variable to 1.

Then try again.

SEP

Re: CDE not starting up

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:27:40 GMT

Ahmed,

Could you run the dr_dt command and post the error messages, also post the errors from the /var/dt/Xerrors file and the HomeDirectory/.dt/errorlog.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: CDE not starting up

sysadm_1 — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 03:14:53 GMT

HELlo Ahmed,

run /usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt command.
This will check CDE configuration in your system.

Also post the all the error message you are getting in the console and syslog.

-sysadm

Re: CDE not starting up

sysadm_1 — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 03:15:01 GMT

Hello Ahmed,

run /usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt command.
This will check CDE configuration in your system.

Also post the all the error message you are getting in the console and syslog.

-sysadm

Re: CDE not starting up

KapilRaj — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:39:23 GMT

How is name resolution ?. Do you have a broken hosts file or a wrong nis record ?. Check (host AND host )

Regds,

Kaps

Re: CDE not starting up

BAUKnight — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:43:55 GMT

dear all,
thx a lot for your notes, i tried some, but i found that the mouse was not connected, i connected the mouse and it works fine, i can get the GUI starting up.
thx again