CDE Login Fail

[D Schmidtke]

Hi,
I have a B1000 Workstation with HPUX11.00
The problem I have is that when my Desktop CDE session starts up and I login with username and password. after entering the password my CDE login session just restarts prompting me to enter the username again.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

start a failsave session, and run this command as root.

# dr_dt

HTH,
Robert-Jan

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

sounds like wrong password or unknown user ..
Try login as root and check if user exists in /etc/passwd.
Maybe you have to reset password

Regards
Volkmar

[Stefan Farrelly]

Possible problems;
1. check /dev/null, needs to be world writeable.
2. Rename the .dt directory in your home directory - it could be corrupted.
3. Restart dtlogin (/sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc stop then start)

[Steve Steel]

Hi

Indeed

/var/dt/Xerrors
$HOME/.dt/startlog

Are there hints there


/usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt run it .correct errors

Can others login

/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

Check it.

Steve Steel

[Jeroen Peereboom]

Also check your .dt/errorlog.

To determine if the problem is systemwide or account specific, you may want to create a new user account, and try to login using that account.

Success,
JP

[MarkSyder]

I would suggest the first thing is to check if the fault is with the workstation or your account. You can do this by asking another user to login to your workstation (ws) while you try a different ws. If the fault follows you, the fault is with your account. If the fault stays with the ws, the fault is with the ws setup.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

THis is most likely .profile problems. Telnet to the box from somewherelse and move .profile to .profile.old and try login through CDE again. If it lets you login, then fix your .profile. Do you have any explicit "DISPLAY" variable settings in that file?.

You can look at .dt/startlog and .dt/errorlog (if one exists). Also run /usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt to see if there are any permission issues.

-Sri

[Craig Smith_13]

If you have a small /home partition and it is full (i.e. a program did a core dump), you will not be able to log on normally.

Press Options and select CommandLine login, then in a term window type in bdf to see if it is full.

[Ted Buis]

If you don't have your name switch service correctly configured, then CDE can resolve and will fail. If DNS isn't configured correctly then, mv /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.old will allow it you to run locally and then run 'sam' to get the name switch service go throught the appropriate search order, but I always like to keep /etc/hosts in the loop and not rely totally on DNS or NIS or NIS+.