CDE problem

[Tom Lamano]

After moving my 715/100 workstation (HPUX 11.00)to a different building, I no longer get the CDE login screen on bootup. All that displays is a very fine grey herringbone pattern with the cursor an "X" that is moveable with the mouse.
I only changed the IP and gateway addresses in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf. The workstation
is accessible from the network, I can telnet and rlogin into it. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Tom Lamano

[Santosh Nair_1]

Usually these sort of problems with CDE is due to name resolution issues. Make sure that the workstation can resolve its own IP address.

-Santosh

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi:

I'm guessing that your DNS server has not been updated with the new IP addresses. I would fix that and also configure your /etc/hosts file with at least its own hostname and a loopback entry. I would then configure /etc/nsswitch.conf to look at files first and DNS if NOTFOUND.

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Tom,
99% it is name resolv problem. your host don't know its own ip. Files to check
/etc/hosts
/etc/nsswitch.conf
If you are using DNS then /etc/resolv.conf

#nslookup hostname
#nslookup ip-of-host
Most probably one will not work.

Sachin

[Tom Lamano]

You guys are good! I put FILES first in
nsswitch.conf and CDE came up. Sure enough, the
DNS server has net yet been updated with my new IP address. Thanks for the quick responses.

Regards,

Tom Lamano