topic Re: problem with the hostname in Operating System - HP-UX

problem with the hostname

ivan petkov — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 06:39:40 GMT

Hello , I just installned HPUX11.11,
When I tried to start the CDE using xmanager there was a problem.
refering to Xerror logs:
# cat /var/dt/Xerrors

Sat Nov 11 13:06:50 2006
error (pid 2737): Hostname hpux is invalid. Setting DISPLAY to ':0'

Fatal server error:
Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running

Sat Nov 11 13:06:50 2006
error (pid 2737): Server unexpectedly died

Sat Nov 11 13:06:55 2006
error (pid 2737): Server for display :0 can't be started.
#

# hostname
hpux
#

# nslookup hpux
*** Warning - the local domain is not set.
*** Either hostname should be a domain name,
*** the domain should be specified in /etc/resolv.conf,
*** or the shell variable LOCALDOMAIN should be set.

Name Server: ns2.evrocom.net
Address: 217.10.240.242

Trying DNS
Trying NIS
looking up FILES
Name: hpux
Address: 192.168.0.9

#

But
# ping hpux
ping: unknown host hpux
#
# cat /etc/hosts |grep hpux
192.168.0.9 hpux
#

How I can fix this problem?
Thank you in advance.

Re: problem with the hostname

Yang Qin_1 — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:59:16 GMT

Hi, it seems you didn't setup your DISPLAY environment. run "echo $DISPLAY" if you got nothing then run:

export DISPLAY=:0.0

is either the host name or IP where you run xmanager.

Yang

Re: problem with the hostname

ivan petkov — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 08:09:30 GMT

I used broadcast feature of xmanager. I just fixed the resolv problem it was from /etc/nsswtich.conf

Re: problem with the hostname

Steven E. Protter — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:49:10 GMT

Shalom,

A new server on a non-routable network should not show up on a DNS based query unless its been added to the DNS database.

See /etc/nsswitch.conf for host name resolution order.

Note that broacast of X hosts is very often blocked by switches and firewalls in a corporate environment.

SEP

Re: problem with the hostname

siva0123 — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:24:07 GMT

As suggested using nsswitch file should resolve the issue.

Thanks,
Siva

Re: problem with the hostname

shanmuhanandam — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:38:40 GMT

Hi Ivan,

Can you try the attached one.

regards,
shanmuha.