topic Re: cde display in Operating System - HP-UX

cde display

rajat — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:36:25 GMT

hi all

i am facing one problem on my workstation. when i boot it. after booting messages, nothing displays on console.

thanks
sanjeev gupta

Re: cde display

Alex Glennie — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:47:49 GMT

ps -ef | grep dtlogin : this process should be running :

to start it use : /sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc start

if that fails can you run the following :

/usr/bin/X11/X :0 result ?

at a guess either /etc/dt/config/Xservers (if it exists) or /usr/dt/config/Xservers contains
the line # * Local local@console /usr/bin/X11/X :0

if this is the case remove the # and restart CDE -> /sbin/init 2 followed by init 3 ....

Re: cde display

Stefan Saliba — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:48:06 GMT

What do you mean.. do you get a login prompt ? Do you get the boot messages. What is your workstation ?

What runlevel are you running into 4 or 3.

Stefan

Re: cde display

Alex Glennie — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:51:43 GMT

If you see nothing should I read that there is no command prompt appearing ?

If that's the case does the system have multiple graphics cards ? Is the monitor attached to the correct card and is the graphics path set correctly ?

nb can be set by interupting the boot process .....

Re: cde display

rajat — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:06:28 GMT

hi
i tried all things mentioned by all of u, but it is not working.
console login prompt appears, but it disappears after few seconds. after some time it 's trying again but unable to display the user login screen(CDE screen) on the monitor.
ttsession daemon is not running on this workstation.
System is c3000/700 series HP visualize workstation.

Please suggest possible solution to resolve this problem.

Thanks,

Sanjeev Gupta

Re: cde display

Stefan Saliba — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:18:40 GMT

What you have is the workstation not being able to resolve it's hostname. X requires that the host resolves it's name. What you need is check in /etc/hosts if you have an entry for the workstation hostname and IP address. Confirm in the /etc/nsswitch.conf that the name resolution is file then DNS. if you use a DNS server confirm that it's entry is correct in /etc/resolv.conf.

I had that problem many times. Usually happens when my DNS server is down.

IF you do not have a dns server check your /etc/hosts as I told you. You can momentarily rename resolv.conf to avoid using DNS.

It should work for you.
What I suggest is telnet to the machine from another machine and go to init 2. Like this you should get at least a login prompt on the console then type init 3 when you want to test the graphical login

Good Luck

Stefan

Re: cde display

rajat — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:31:26 GMT

It's not the case of DNS and still it's not working.

I had started the ttsession with -d option and that time login screen was displayed but when i took the reboot of workstation then again problem remains same.

Thanks,
Praveen