CDE Login problem

[Ken Hunter]

I have a system running HP-UX 10.20 patched to Dec '99. I have a particular user account that is unable to completely login to the CDE
desktop. The desktop starts, most of the CDE stuff appears - then a message
box is displayed that says:

"Unable to initialize or connect to the Deskop
messaging system. Check your $HOME/.dt/errorlog
for more information.
Press OK and your session will exit."

Your only action is to press the OK button and exit the session.

This user account has been able to login to the desktop in the past. No one of course fesses up to making any changes :) Other accounts - root and non
root users can login to this machine's desktop. This problem is specific to
this machine. The info in that $home/.dt/errorlog doesn't help.

Anyone seen this problem before???

thanks in advance.

Ken :)

[Kofi ARTHIABAH · Accepted solution]

Ken:

I believe this problem is covered in the thread:

http://my1.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xeaebf841489fd4118fef0090279cd0f9!1,00.html

did it solve your pmr?

[Pradeep Saxena]

Hi
I have faced twice similar problem in past. In my case rebuilding of kernel solved the problem. I wonder if same works to you also.
Steps to rebuild kernel are:
#cd /stand/build
#/usr/lbin/sysadm/system_prep -v -s system
#/usr/sbin/mk_kernel -s system
#mv /stand/system /stand/system.prev
#mv /stand/vmunix /stand/vmunix.prev
#mv /stand/build/system /stand/system
#mv /stand/build/vmunix_test /stand/vmunix
then reboot the machine.