CDE Problem

[Lumar Regalado]

I've installed a RX2600 Itanium server with HP-UX, and every was going all right, but now, when I try to enter to GUI part of SO, a error box appears stating that I have some kind of problem.

The error is this:

Desktop message system could not be started

and indicates to me to tap on OK button and re-enter with a fail safe session and check a bunch of things.

Have some of you seen this before?

Thanks for your help.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

I haven't touched an itanium server yet. But HP-UX functionality should be the same.

This is most likely a name resolution issue. In the fail safe session, try to do 'nslookup $(hostname)' and see if it works. If not, then you may have to put the hostname and the corresponding IP address in /etc/hosts and modify your /etc/nsswitch.conf file to have files first. Then ping to the localhost and it should respond.

Run "/usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt". It will display potential problems that are preventing CDE to start.

-Sri

[Fred.Wu]

This is a popular problem in almost all UNIX.
To resolve this, check /etc/hosts, /etc/nsswitch.conf,
/etc/resolv.conf, and other network related files, confirm your network configuration is correct.

[KapilRaj]

If ...

ur hostname is "host1"
ur ip addr is "192.168.0.1"

host command should return "192.168.0.1"
host 192.168.0.1 command should return "host1"

If the above commands failed , it is some stupid "sam" / "set_parms" operation .. I remember sam adding few lines in /etc/hosts and forget to delete the old ones ..

Solution is , clean up /etc/hosts ... and if u r using bind .. Make sure you have a reverse lookup working..

nslookup
nslookup

Regds,

Kaps