topic Re: Reflection problems in Operating System - HP-UX

Reflection problems

Andy Cole_1 — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 04:53:19 GMT

Anyone using Reflection on your HP-UX system? I encounter some problem when using Reflection. When i logon to the system using Reflection, it hangs at the Starting Common Desktop Environment. Anybody know why? I try using other workstation to access but result still the same.

Re: Reflection problems

RAC_1 — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 05:02:36 GMT

First I will check hostname resolution. forward and backward both.

what is the error in .dt dir. check errorlog.

is dtlogin running on system?

Post the error message.

Re: Reflection problems

Andy Cole_1 — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 05:06:52 GMT

How do i go about checking the error log? Sorry me new to HP-UX system, so many things i am not quite familiar. I don't know whether is that an error a not, cause the hour glass is displayed at the "Starting Common Desktop Environment" for a very long time

Re: Reflection problems

RAC_1 — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 05:13:48 GMT

goto your home directory.

you will have .dt directory in your home dir.

check for logs startlog and errorlog.

post the errors in errorlog.

Re: Reflection problems

Andy Cole_1 — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 05:17:27 GMT

where is the errorlog and startup files in? I mean in which directory? My home directory don't have it cause i using root account

Re: Reflection problems

Andy Cole_1 — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 05:22:54 GMT

How to see whether there is dtlogin? I find the directory .dt. But however the errorlog file was dated 6 Dec 02. But i only have the problem recently. By the way the errorlog message is ERROR(4): dtsession:PID 28319: Dec 06 Connection to server lost - exiting. ****[97]

Just to let you all know that this problem occur (Reflection hangs) for my other 3 servers also

Re: Reflection problems

RAC_1 — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 05:31:40 GMT

seems this needs lot of digging.

As you have said, the root acoount does not have home dir.
(bad practise)

on / you have .dt right?

do this mv .dt .td

now login and check. this should create .dt again, and hope we get errorlog.

Also check if you have /var/adm/inetd.sec file
and you have the following entries in it.

dtspc allow
spc allow
mserve allow

(aprt from all other entries)

try one thing at a time.

first mv .dt .td and try login. Before login do ps -ef|Grep dtlogin

try checking inetd.sec after this.

Re: Reflection problems

Andy Cole_1 — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 05:35:31 GMT

i have checked the inetd.sec file in /var/adm. All the entries that you said is present.
dtspc allow
spc allow
mserver allow

Re: Reflection problems

RAC_1 — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 05:51:43 GMT

what about renaming .dt to .td

did it get created again?

is dtlogin running?
if it is running do
/sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc stop
then
/sbin/init.d/dtlogin start
check ps -ef|grep dtlogin

post errorlog

Re: Reflection problems

Yogeeraj_1 — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 06:29:15 GMT

hi,

In the first place, Check if you are able to login and access CDE from the server itself. If you NO, login to the CLI (command line) mode and run /usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt to find out what is wrong with your CDE.

Then:
Check that rpcbind is running
otherwise you can start it using:
/sbin/init.d/nfs.core start

hope this helps!

Best Regards
Yogeeraj

Re: Reflection problems

RAC_1 — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 06:32:41 GMT

Completley overlooked dr_dt.

Should have run in the first place.

Re: Reflection problems

RAC_1 — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 06:34:37 GMT

Completley overlooked dr_dt.

Should have run in the first place.

Re: Reflection problems

Andy Cole_1 — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 08:43:26 GMT

But currently i could not go to the server itself to access using CDE. (not in office). By the way, how do i login to CLI mode? you mean normal login (telnet)? and what does /usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt do when i run it. ?

Re: Reflection problems

Yogeeraj_1 — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:26:02 GMT

hi,

dr_dt will examine your system to determine if HP CDE can function properly. If it finds problems or concerns, or just want to supply some information, it will issue INFO/WARNING/ERROR statements. It will not make any changes, but might suggest that you change
something.

Best Regards,
Yogeeraj

Re: Reflection problems

Steven Mertens — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 14:00:42 GMT

hi,

An entry in your .profile that
gives an error can also gives
problems with reflectionX.
(sourcing a file that doensn't
excist). It once happend to me.

rgds.

Steven

Re: Reflection problems

Andy Cole_1 — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 16:05:04 GMT

Thanks. But you mean which entry in my .profile? It say that it once happen to you, but how you go about solving it?

Re: Reflection problems

harry d brown jr — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 16:49:46 GMT

Andy,

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x022718276953d61190040090279cd0f9,00.html

live free or die
harry

Re: Reflection problems

Steven Mertens — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 19:54:46 GMT

Andy,

i my case it was an entry
that sourced an other file
and that file didn't excist so
i couldn't login anymore with
my reflextionx.
It was an entry put there by
an administrator to set some
env vars for some program.

rgds.

steven

Re: Reflection problems

Daniel Olson — Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:39:52 GMT

Run /usr/sbin/rpcinfo

If that fails without mapping rpc services, restart the portmapper by sending a kill -SIGTERM to either portmap or rpcbind. Then restatr with the "-w" warm flag if on 11.11 or if on earlier 10.20 or 11.00 restart regularly using /usr/sbin/portmap or /usr/sbin/rpcbind.

Hope this helps, CDE needs rpc services to be functional and it will stall right were you are describing if you have an rpc issue.

Regards,
Daniel

Re: Reflection problems

Frank Slootweg — Mon, 23 Dec 2002 11:12:47 GMT

I am not a CDE specialist at all, but as far as I know, what you describe happens if your DISPLAY variable does not point to your workstation.

To check if this is indeed the case, login in Failsafe mode, see the Options menu (Options -> Session -> Failsafe session) on the login screen (i.e. the screen which says "Welcome to " and "Please enter your user name").

Please report back whether or not a Failsafe session works, so the others can help you.