CDE Login GUI is not being displayed.

[Ed Duffner]

Hi,



I'm sure similar questions have been asked lots of times but I can't seem to find the answer to this problem.



Basically my HP9000/C110 is running HP-UX 11.0 and CDE is the windowing environment.



The system boots and gets to a login prompt that I cannot type into, this is where the graphical login should take over and prompt for a password.



Instead, the screen displays the usual greeting with a console type login prompt which is frozen, no text input possible. I guess dtsession is locking out the console login but isn't starting the gui.

The default run level in /etc/inittab is 3.

I can remotely login and do anything, the real problem is the gui not starting.



I can also export the display and run X apps on a different system.



What's wrong folks?



Here's what I have running...



ps -ef | grep X

root 1634 1632 249 15:40:45 ? 14:42 /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -auth /var/dt/sseuxAAAb01632





ps -ef | grep dt

root 1634 1632 196 15:40:45 ? 16:05 /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -auth /var/dt/sseuxAAAb01632

root 1632 1622 0 15:40:44 ? 0:00 /usr/dt/bin/dtlogin

root 1622 1 0 15:40:44 ? 0:00 /usr/dt/bin/dtrc /usr/dt/bin/dtrc





Regards,

Ed.

[Sajid_1]

hello,

Did you check the log files? The CDE log file will have a description of errors while it's trying to start the display. May be even a single mouse (pointer device) issue!

hth

[Wodisch_1]

Hi Ed,

can you show us the last few lines of your "/var/dt/errors" logfile?
And the output of "grep getty /etc/inittab", and your "/etc/gettydefs", too?

But since you cannot type anything in, maybe your keyboard is broken (or not plugged in correctly)?

Just my $0.02,
Wodisch

[Ed Duffner]

Hi guys,

I've attached the output of...

/var/dt/Xerrors:

grep getty /etc/inittab and /etc/gettydefs

I can rule out the keyboard as this works when I go into single user mode.

The mouse is a PS2 type, as is the keyboard.

Regards,
Ed.

[T G Manikandan]

If your CDE is not getting up started

1.check whether your hostname is resolving properly.

check /etc/hosts

##.###.##.##
127.0.0.1 localhost loopback

check /etc/nsswitch.conf

If you are using /etc/hosts for resolving hostnames

hosts: files [ NOTFOUND = continue ] dns




2.Run
#/usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt

re-direct the output to a log file and revert.
like,

/usr/contrib/bin/X11 >/tmp/cdelog.


Thanks

[Stephane Berhault]

hi Ed,

Have you try to rebuild your CDE environment ?

Can you log in on the system using telnet ?

In /home/$user/ delete your .dt directory
to generate a new environment.

rm -r .dt

have you check in your .profile that you don't
source a inexistent file !

If you do so, cde "dtlogin" will loops indefinitely.

hope, that helps you !

[Kenneth_18]

Hi, I've had a similar problem with the CDE not being executed. The problem I had was that the dns was not able to resolve the hostname of the server since I just inserted it into our network and the cde was trying to resolve the hostname via the dns.

Just make sure that in your nsswitch.conf file, for the "hosts" entry , files (etc/hosts) should be checked first before the dns.

Or you can just temporarily comment out all the entries in your etc/resolv.conf file to temporarily disable the dns query.

[Ed Duffner]

Hi All,

I'll try to reply to all the suggestions so far.

# /etc/hosts is ok, I have the localhost set up correctly.

# /etc/nsswitch.conf is also ok; I set it to look at files first. (I even tried switching DNS and 'files' and 'hosts' around too).

# dr_dt gives me no WARNINGS or ERRORS, just INFO.

# I haven't tried rebuilding my CDE environament. Can I do this with my 11.0 media with 'sam' ?

# I can rlogin and if I kill everything which is dt related I can also log in locally, I can get contol of the system. I can even export the display and run X applications.

# The system, when it boots up should automatically come to a login prompt. I'm not sure that a user .profle would influence this initial login.

# Does the root .profile influence dt login?

Thanks for all your help and suggestions guys.

Regards,
Ed.