CDE confirure

[Ayush_1]

All Experts, hello
I am working on B2000 server. I have installed OS twice but I am not abel to access CDE. It is showing same error "check desktop installed properly or not, check hostname is correct in /etc/hosts file, network is properly configured. "
I have done all this but its not working.
Please guide me.
Thanks

[avizen9]

Hello Ayush,
this thread having enough information for your issue, please go through surely will resolve it,

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=592441


let me know how it goes, thanks,

[Ganesan R]

Hi,

Use this tool. It will give probable causes and fixes for CDE issue.

#/usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt

[Fabio Ettore]

Hi,

this kind of problems usually are caused from hostname setting or most likely from network configuration issues.
Please post steps you did to check hostname and network (checked /etc/hosts?, nslookup of itself?, etc.).

Best regards,
Fabio

[Ayush_1]

Thanks all for your reply. I dont know what happened but yesterday when I powered on the server GUI was coming. What I did day before yesterday in /etc/hosts file there were few entries

192.168.1.38 localhost (server ID $ name)
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost lopback

and I did some modification those were like this

192.168.1.38 localhost (server ID & name)
127.0.0.1
127.0.0.1 lopback

This was all that I changed there. So problem has been resolved but my query is still there as it was. This was the only change that I made there. Same changes I had made earlyer also but result was nothing.

So please tell me what is happening in the background. I got this GUI why and how? Thanks with regards.

[Fabio Ettore]

Hi Ayush,

I see a small confusion. Those entries in /etc/hosts are strange, either in the first case and in the second one, I'd say they're wronged in both cases. You just should have configured /etc/hosts just with something like the following:

127.0.0.1 localhost loopback
192.168.1.38

This is enough to have a good /etc/hosts. Obviously you have to configure more entries in that format if more hostnames/IP address need to be resolved by /etc/hosts. But just for the CDE starting problem the /etc/hosts configured as above should be sufficient.

Definitely I still think the problem that you had about CDE starting was a bad /etc/hosts.

Try to configure that easy /etc/hosts and:

/sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc stop
/sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc start

Hope this helps you.

Best regards,
Fabio