CDE not starting on master console

[David Heard]

The CDE seems to have a nind of its own. I have had a problem with it not starting on the master console. I have contacted HP support and thay are able to work me thru the issue and I am able to get it started. Then I reboot the system and all is well. However, after a few days, I reboot the server and it does not start. Can someone help??

[Pete Randall]

David,

Seems to me the key would be making a permanent solution out of whatever HP support had you do to fix it the first time. In order to do that, we would need to know what they had you do.


Pete

[Steven E. Protter]

HP-9000 systems are not automatically set up to let cde run.

vi /etc/rc.config.d/xfs

Make aure the first variable is set to 1.

That will start the font server at boot time.

You can start it manually but I never figured that out, so I'd boot the box.

But first, make sure the DISPLAY variable is right.

Here is some code for /etc/profile or .profile that will get it set correctly.

DISPLAY=$(who -m -u | awk '{print $8}'):0.0
export DISPLAY

SEP

[Alex Glennie]

Fire away ..... it would be handy to know if :

dtlogin is running, what appears on the master console, what H/W is involved along with what HP suggested you do to get this working temporarily .....