Unable to Display Login Menu

[Raymond Chua]

Everytime the HP-UX is booting up, it halted with a white screen at the time the login menu is about to display.

[Animesh Chakraborty]

Hi,
What about in single user mode? Are you using workstation ? Which model ?
look for entries in /etc/inittab while in single user mode.

best of luck

animesh

[Wodisch]

Hello,

is it really "halted", i.e. your are not able
to telnet in or to ping it?
Then try booting "single-user mode", do an
"mount -a", and read the "/etc/rc.log"

Or is it just a (more gray) graphics screen?
Then perhaps your own station's address is
missing in the "/etc/dt/config/Xservers" (or
the "/usr/dt/config/Xservers").

HTH,
Wodisch

[Alex Glennie]

White screen .... sounds like the Xserver if it is more grey and mesh-like in appearance, do you see the cross hairs / mouse cursor ? ps -ef | grep X ?

If the Xservers starting sounds like your window manager has problems ..... what is it ? CDE ? O/S 11.00 ?

What's the H/W involved and has it ever worked, if so what changed ?

My guess is CDE may be having problems resolving your correct hostname but it maybe something else :

if using CDE run dr_dt and check in /var/dt/Xerrors for clues.

[Raymond Chua]

Hi Wodisch,
So what is the Syntex for the station address in Xservers file. Pls attach with example.

[Alex Glennie]

fyi /etc/dt/config/Xservers tells the Xserver to start on the local display, read the file but basically the last line,
* Local local@console etc etc needs to be uncommented

I do not think this is your problem !

How about answering some of my qus ?

[Raymond Chua]

Hi Alex,
Yes, multiple tiny cross hairs and the mouse curor appear.
It is O/S 11.00 and working fine before swifting.

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

OK that's definitely the Xsever and CDE's the default window manager for hpux 11.xx. So it sounds as if CDE has the problem but not X !

How longs has this been occuring ? what changed ?

How do you resolve your hostname - /etc/hosts or DNS ?

Can you check in /var/dt/Xerrors and also /etc/rc.log, syslog.log for clues and also run dr_dt and correct any warnings or errors !