CDE login problems

[Russell Campbell]

When a user log's into an HP-UX 10.20 machine, the login screen shows two session options:
* Regular desktop
o Failsafe desktop

where Regular desktop is the default. The default runs the session in the user's .dt/session/current directory.

When a users log's into an HP-UX 11 machine, the login screen shows five options:
o Current
o Home
o server1:0.0 - Current
* server1:0.0 - Home
o Failsafe Session

where "server1:0.0 - Home" is the default. However, to run the session in the user's .dt/session/current directory, the "Current" option must be manually selected.

To maintain compability between 10.20 and 11 it would be better if the default option was "Current".

How do would I change this on 11.00? This seemed to have happend after loading a CDE patch.

[Pete Randall]

Russell,

Do you know what the patch was - I want to make sure I never load it. I'm sorry I don't have any answers for you.

Pete

[Russell Campbell]

Not sure what patch might have cause this. I will investigate.

[Pete Randall]

Russell,

There was a defect in PHSS_23800 which was described as "dtgreet options menu doesn't contain "home session" or "current session". This was part of PHSS_25194 or the more recent PHSS_26490. If one of these introduced the behaviour you're describing, maybe removing it would fix things. My 11.0 and 11i systems do not behave this way - they behave exactly like you describe the 10.20 behaviour.

Pete

[Russell Campbell]

I have found the patch that started this problem. Patch # PHSS_25138.

[Pete Randall]

Russell,

I was getting ready to install the ones I'd found to see if that caused your symptoms - glad you found it.

Yeah, that also contains the PHSS_23800 defect fix. I'm not sure why I didn't find it when I searched. Anyway, you could try and remove it or you could log a support call with HP and see what they have to say.

Pete

[Russell Campbell]

I have found out what is causing this problem.

Patch PHSS_25138 enabled this new feature.

o Current
o Home
o server1:0.0 - Current
* server1:0.0 - Home
o Failsafe Session

But defaulted everyone to use the Home session. The work around was that the users were forced to select there login session before logging in.

Fix: I remove /etc/dt/config/Xconfig which contained a line that was cauing the problem Dtlogin*session: /usr/dt/bin/Xsession.

This worked before the patch but not after.