CDE Login Gone ?

[Tanesh B]

I was uninstalling a program on my C110 Workstation and i had to shutdown before the uninstall completed. When i restarted the CDE login prompt doesn't show, i can login using console, but the screen loads a GUI window with only the mouse pointer.

And it jumps between the console and GUI windows.

any help ?
tkb.

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Tanesh,

any error message on console.

Thanks

[Tanesh B]

it says disabling desktop console but it still jumps back and forth.. but after a little while it says resuming desktop login .. while jumping again. Never does it show the CDE login screen.

tkb.

[S.K. Chan]

You best bet is run CDE disgnostics to find out what is causing the problem ..

# /usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt | more

[Tanesh B]

the issue was due to the ip being changed, how would it be able to change the ip to the new ip address and still run CDE ?

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Tanesh,

Seems like the problem is with your hostname lookup. How did you change your ip. Do a "nslookup" and make sure the ip and hostnames are resolved properly,

nslookup
> server_name
> server_ip_add
> exit

this should be resolved correctly. If there is a problem, you can usr /sbin/set_parms to reconfigure the same,

to configure hostname
/sbin/set_parms hostname

to configure ip address
/sbin/set_parms ip_address

Hope this helps.

Regds

[K.Vijayaragavan.]

Hi,

This happens when all the required files which stores system ip addres are partially updated (i.e. some with ip ,some without ip) when you shutdown the system while on uninstalling something.

Solution is to login using command line mode from the CDE login screen (options>command line login>) and run the command

"set_parms initial"

to reconfigure the system with same ip address , subnet mask and gateway details.
-Vijay