CDE won't launch on workstations

[William Haslam]

First I would like to thank this forum. The Professionalism and willingness to help new administrator is impressive. As I mentioned in previous messages I 'm running 10.02
I replaced a license file last week on a application and afterwards I was instructed to reboot the Server I did a clean Reboot Sync, Sync, shutdown -r 0, I also rebooted two workstation at the time when the server came up I when to the two workstations and the CDE wouldn't launch. After following the instruction I ran
usr/bin/X11/X and the message read can't establish any listening sockets
I ran usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr-dt | more and on the two work station I got numerous warnings about permissions. My system say they can't determine the Display type I believe I have a corrupted file should I reload the CDE/VUE or dig deeper into the problem If I reload the CDE what files should I copy from a known good machine

[Alex Glennie]

ps -ef | grep dtlogin ? if it's running check your last line of your Xserver file in /etc and in /usr/dt/config if it has a # remove it and resart X/ CDE.

Did you say 10.02 or 10.20 ?

run dr_dt and resolve any permission errors eg /var/spool/sockets maybe one to look out for.

Check /var/dt/Xerrors .

DO NOT COPY OVER OTHER FILES from working system ...far better to re-install off the core O/S CD .

What run level are you at and are you sure no ther window managers are running .... I'm thinking vuelogin or xdm maybe ?

[William Haslam]

I'm running in level 4 I did a sbin/init 3 and a sbin/init 2
The message reads
Start NFS server Subsystem OK
Start VUE login server OK
My OS 10.20 sorry
When I run ps -ef | grep dtlogin dtlogin is not running

[Alex Glennie]

OK so given the info I have, my guess is you were prior to having problems, running vue ?

If this was the case run-level 4 is IK and we shouldn't expect to see dtlogin or be paying attention to dr_dt output.

Can you check the syslog.log, and /var/vue/Xerrors if I'm correct for clues : also run dr_vue and post any warnings or errors.

Lastly what was the application license - softbench or a compiler by any chance - details ?

It sounds as if this could be to do with bms as it's shared by both vue and softbench :

fill in the blanks and I'll suggest a few possible actions ... also of use would be to drop the system to run-level 2 and then run /usr/bin/X11/X :0 - result ?