CDE Configuration

[Fern H2O]

Hello Everyone,

Here's the issue.

solman:/#swlist -l product | grep CDE
CDE B.11.31 HP-UX CDE User Interface
solman:/#ll /usr/dt
total 16
dr-xr-xr-x 3 bin bin 96 Oct 6 17:24 config
dr-xr-xr-x 3 bin bin 8192 Oct 28 16:52 lib

As you can see, I've installed CDE on my 11.31 box, swlist. But, you can see there are no files under /usr/dt/bin, which is where the start scripts and everything should be.

I've been at this for over a week now, i've even re-installed CDE but to no avail. I would great appreciate your help.

Thanks,

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Check /etc/rc.config.d/xfs

Make sure the font server is configured to start. It is NOT configured to start by the default 11.31 installation.

/sbin/init.d/xfs start

SEP

[Fern H2O]

Steven,

Thanks for you response but the problem isn't that it won't start, it's that it seems as if nothing is installed. Swlist says CDE is installed but I don't see any of the files or directories that should have been installed with it.

Under directory /usr/dt/bin (which is where I've read the start files should be and everything else pertaining to CDE) there's nothing.

[TTr · Accepted solution]

xfs is not needed to run CDE. xfs is a font server to server up fonts to remote clients, it is not needed locally.

Check the swinstall logs to see if there were any errors with the CDE installation. The empty directories are left behind after an swremove and maybe the swinstall never happened because of errors.

[Duncan Edmonstone]

What filesets do you see? This is what I see on a 11.31 system with /usr/dt/bin in place:

# swlist -l fileset -a state CDE
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "brk11"...
#
# Target: brk11:/
#

# CDE
CDE.CDE-DTTERM configured
CDE.CDE-DTTERM-COM configured
CDE.CDE-ENG-A-HELP configured
CDE.CDE-ENG-A-MAN configured
CDE.CDE-ENG-A-MSG configured
CDE.CDE-FONTS configured
CDE.CDE-HELP-RUN configured
CDE.CDE-HLP-RUN-CM configured
CDE.CDE-ICONS configured
CDE.CDE-LANGS configured
CDE.CDE-MIN configured
CDE.CDE-MIN-COM configured
CDE.CDE-RUN configured
CDE.CDE-RUN-COM configured
CDE.CDE-SHLIBS configured
CDE.CDE-SHLIBS-IA configured
CDE.CDE-TT configured
CDE.CDE-TT-COM configured


HTH

Duncan

[Fern H2O]

Hello Duncan,

All I see is:

solman:/#swlist -l fileset -a state CDE
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "solman"...
#
# Target: solman:/
#

# CDE
CDE.CDE-SHLIBS configured
solman:/#

..........
swinstall log shows no errors:

* Source: solman:/cdrom
* Targets: solman:/
* Software selections:
CDE.CDE-SHLIBS,r=B.11.31,a=HP-UX_B.11.31_IA/PA,v=HP,fr=B.11.31,fa=HP-UX_B.11.31_IA/PA
* Beginning Analysis
* "solman:/": 1 filesets have the selected revision already
installed.
* Ending Analysis
* Beginning Task Execution
* Proceeding with Task Execution on the following targets:
* solman:/
* The execution phase succeeded for "solman:/".
* Ending Task Execution

[TTr]

The CDE is not installed, the CDE.CDE-SHLIBS is only one of the CDE filesetes.

What did you use as the source depot when you tried the CDE installation? What media did you use?

[Fern H2O]

Hello TTr,

I used:

HP-UX 11i Version 3
Data Center Operating Environment

September 2009
DVD 1 of 3

[Duncan Edmonstone]

so look at what you actually had on the DVD:

swlist -l fileset -d -s /cdrom CDE

(obviously you'll need to change /cdrom for wherever you have your DVD mounted)

do you see all the filesets there, or are some on the other DVDs?

HTH

Duncan

[Fern H2O]

Thanks Alot TT & Duncan,

Not all filesets were installed because other parts were in DVD 2/3.

But I got it now...

Thanks again