Can't log-in using CDE on server console !!!

[Elton John A. Alforja]

Hello,

Can someone pls. help me. I'm new to HPUX and our server has a problem when we log-in on its console using CDE. After we enter the login name and passwd it hungs on the welcome screen. We got some logs using telnet. I attached the log file /var/dt/Xerrors.

Suggestions are very muched appreciated ...

[Steve Steel]

Hi

1)vi /etc/dt/config/Xconfig

If not found first
cp /usr/dt/config/Xconfig /etc/dt/config/

2)Uncomment this line

Dtlogin*authorize: False

3)Font Server


CDE includes a small set of fonts and font aliases which are not
part of the standard MIT X distribution. In order for CDE to
function correctly, these fonts must be made available to
X-servers (X-Terminals) displaying CDE.

- ------------------------------------------------------
The simple solution to this problem involves configuring and
running a font-server on the system which is running CDE and
forcing the font server into the X-Server (X-Terminal) font-path.

To do this a few things are required:

A - The font server needs to be configured to include the CDE
fonts in its catalog

EDIT: /etc/X11/fs/config

Append ",/usr/dt/config/xfonts/C" to the end of the
"catalogue = ..." line

EDIT: /etc/rc.config.d/xfs

Set the following variable: "RUN_X_FONT_SERVER=1"

EXECUTE: /sbin/init.d/xfs start

If the font-server is already running, kill it and
restart it.

B - Force CDE to add the font-server to the X-Server font-path
by editing the Xsetup file. (NOTE: This steps REQUIRES
the IP address of the CDE session server. You can get
this information by running: nslookup `hostname`.)

COPY: /usr/dt/config/Xsetup to /etc/dt/config/Xsetup
EDIT: /etc/dt/config/Xsetup

Add the following line to /etc/dt/config/Xsetup replacing
"IPADDRESS" with the IP address of the server as returned
from "nslookup `hostname`":

$XDIR/xset fp+ tcp/IPADDRESS:7000 1>/dev/null


4)restart the cde

/sbin/rc3.d/S990dtlogin.rc stop
/sbin/rc3.d/S990dtlogin.rc start

5)try again


steve steel

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi

On the CDE login screen is a "drop down" menu called "Options". In this menu is a submenu called "Session". From this you can select "Failsafe session". This start another type of session (not CDE, I think it is caled "xsession"). If there is problem with CDE you can mostly log in using this "Failsafe session". This is not a solution of the original problem but it can help you log in at the console in such situation.

[Elton John A. Alforja]

Thanks for your reply Steve I will try this first and inform you if it worked then I will assign the points.

Leif,
We need to run CDE on the server console because we need to load our openview NNM there. Anyways thanks for your relpy