CDE problem startup

[Peter Roege]

Hi All
I just got 2 B132L from US with HP-UX 11 preinstalled.
The first have the common problem with the messaging system could not start.
The next the CDE login appears when i logging in as root the screen goes black and i am comming back to cde login ?
When the box boots there is a RPC "Fail"
the box is not on a network bacause i tryed to boot it differense from the first.

Hopes any one can help in deep trouble
Peter Røge SIEMENS Denmar

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Pete,

CDE needs connection to the network and should be able to resolve its hostname to start up.

Take a look at this thread, section 4.

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000073548533

The itrc doc id is KBRC00004688.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[A.G.M. Velthof]

You should check your hostfile.
Add the aliases hostname. and hostname.domain

Greetings, Alfons

[Peter Roege]

Thank for farst help
i will try to work on your probosal
and will then be back.

I little problem:
Do i need to have a qualified internet domain name ?
or can i use as on microsoft win2000 serv
somthing like "name.local" ?

Peter Røge SIEMENS Denma

[Peter Roege]

Hi again

Found this in $HOME/.dt/errorlog

ERRO(4) dtsession pid1545
invalid display name exiting
[91]

Any who knows what this mean ?

Regarding Peter

[Mark Ellzey]

Peter,

Check the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. The system must be able to resolve it's own host name to derive the display name.

Just to get things going, change the /etc/nsswitch.conf to the following:

hosts: files

As with the other posters, make sure the proper host name and aliases are in the /etc/hosts file.

If the machine was once part of an NIS domain, you'll also have problems until you change the /etc/rc.config.d/namesvrs file to NIS_CLIENT=0.

Regards,
Mark