Can' loginto CDE

[ChuanH]

Dear all,

I really need your help,

I just installed hp ux 11.0 on my hp9000 c360 workstation ( 1G RAM, 9G HD), the system boot up, but when i use root ( the only id in my box) to loginto the CDE , a little while the system always back to the CDE login screen again!!!
I am sure that I used the right passwd, but I just can't get into CDE environment. I did install hpux 11.i yesterday and got the same problem, I was thinking that the hardware may not like 11.i so I re-install the 11.0


Any advise would be great appreciated!


Thank you!

Hong

[David Burgess · Accepted solution]

Can you choose options, command line login and get in that way? That will prove the root password.

Regards,

Dave.

[Sundar_7]

Get your network parameters straight before starting CDE. CDE behaves very strange when it cannot resolve the hostname. Make sure you have the entry for the hostname in /etc/hosts, an IP address is assigned and /etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/resolv.conf have approriate entries.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

Look at ~root/.dt/errorlog and startlog files and see if there is any information.

Also make sure the DNS settings are correct on the system. Telnet to the box and do 'hostname', 'netstat -in' and compare them with the output of 'nslookup
-Sri

[ChuanH]

Thanks a lot Dave!
It works with command line input, could you please tell me the reason if you know it. Do you have the same problem before? I use a NEC monitor, may be it is not compatible with hp CDE.

Thanks again!

[David Burgess]

In which case it sounds like a networking issue. Make sure you can resolve the hostname. Make sure the entry in /etc/hosts is correct. Check /etc/nsswitch.conf exists.

Take a copy of you nsswitch.conf first.

Make the hosts line only reference files. ie

hosts: files

and try again. Assuming this works restore the previous configuration file and look at the hosts line and make sure that each service can resolve the hostname. Use nslookup for dns.

Regards,

Dave.

[ChuanH]

Thank you so much Dave, Sundar and Sridhar!
You are really great!
CDE is working with my workstation.

Have a nice weekend


Hong