topic Re: Missing CDE and language in Operating System - HP-UX

Missing CDE and language

Terry Washington_1 — Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:01:19 GMT

I recently performed an advanced installation of HP-UX 11i. I selected the option to set the final parameters at first boot. Upon reboot I received a message that I had not installed a language and was directed to use swinstall. I entered the rest of the system info and CDE did not start. Apparently I forgot to install it as the startup script was mising from /sbin/init.d. I am able to login from a command line and everything else looks OK. How do I install a language (English) and CDE? Which CD would they be on?

Re: Missing CDE and language

Pete Randall — Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:03:08 GMT

Terry,

Look at the Core OS CD. You'll need to drill down into it (using Open Item).

Pete

Re: Missing CDE and language

Pierrick herve — Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:10:49 GMT

Hi Terry,

yes CDE is on the install CD.
(exactly CD 2 of 2)

product :CDE
fileset :CDE-RUN file:/sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc

bundles:
CDE-ChineseS.CDE.CDE-RUN B.11.11 CDE Runtime
CDE-ChineseT.CDE.CDE-RUN B.11.11 CDE Runtime
CDE-English.CDE.CDE-RUN B.11.11 CDE Runtime
CDE-French.CDE.CDE-RUN B.11.11 CDE Runtime
CDE-German.CDE.CDE-RUN B.11.11 CDE Runtime
CDE-Italian.CDE.CDE-RUN B.11.11 CDE Runtime
CDE-Japanese.CDE.CDE-RUN B.11.11 CDE Runtime
CDE-Korean.CDE.CDE-RUN B.11.11 CDE Runtime
CDE-Spanish.CDE.CDE-RUN B.11.11 CDE Runtime
CDE-Swedish.CDE.CDE-RUN B.11.11 CDE Runtime

regards,
Pierrick

Re: Missing CDE and language

Terry Washington_1 — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:24:53 GMT

Thanks for the info. I installed the CDE package but it took about 6 hours and the system did not automatically reboot (as it said it would.) Very strange. I manually rebooted and the startup script /sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc is now present. However when the system boots it shows an NA next to CDE and X-Windows fails. I tried running ./dtlogin.rc start and CDE still did not start and no errors were displayed. Is there some other CDE dependent-software that may need to be installed?

Re: Missing CDE and language

Armin Feller — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:28:21 GMT

please have a look in:

/var/dt/Xerrors

and

$HOME/.dt/errorlog

if you can find errormessages there.

Re: Missing CDE and language

Pete Randall — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:28:51 GMT

Terry,

Not sure what else may be missing. Have you considered starting over from scratch again? I'd be a little leary of the state of your system at this point and, in my opinion, a clean install should be a starting point to build on not debug from.

Pete

Re: Missing CDE and language

Alex Glennie — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:34:00 GMT

OK what H/W are we talking here ? If this is a server please detail and also confirm if this has a graphics card installed.

you say drlogin ran but no errors : ps -ef ?? grep dtlogin ?

if this is running look in both /usr/dt/config/Xservers or if it exists /etc/dt/config/Xservers

uncomment the last line if need be and restart drlogin.

If not check your syslog.log,rc.log and /var/dt/Xerrors for clues ....

Personally I might be tempted to start from scratch .... cde's diagnostic tool may also prove useful : dr_dt.

Re: Missing CDE and language

MANOJ SRIVASTAVA — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:34:42 GMT

Hi TDE

CDE is in the CD 2of 2 you may like to jsut install teh CDE part using swinstall if you can run the command line mdoe.

Manoj Srivastava

Re: Missing CDE and language

Jean-Louis Phelix — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:51:31 GMT

hi,

You should also trace /sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc script and test exit code. It uses for example DESKTOP variable (should be CDE) in /etc/rc.config.d/desktop file. If it's not CDE then it exits 2 (without any message !!!)

Regards.

Re: Missing CDE and language

Terry Washington_1 — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:20:32 GMT

The HW in question is a C160. I have decided to reinstall 11i as I am not confident that the installation was done correctly. This system actually boots HP-UX 10.20 (internal disk FWSCSI6.0), HP-UX 11.00 (enternal disk SESCI4.0) and 11i (SESCSI0.0). I have convinced the developers that own the system that the external disk that I am installing 11i on is too slow/old to be reliable. I am going to overwrite the 10.20 installation on the internal disk. I have been asked to boot into 10.20 one more time to save data from a Clearcase installation. When I attempt to boot into 10.20 the system chokes on the "start software distributor agent" script. It has been sitting there alternating between wait/busy for almost an hour. Is there a way to boot the system (in single-user mode?) and kill the script? Please be as detailed as possible as I am new to HP-UX. My shop is almost exclusively Sun. Thanks!

Re: Missing CDE and language

Pete Randall — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:22:23 GMT

Try "break" on the keyboard to break out of that particlar startup script.

Pete