CDE

[Edgar Arroyo]

Hi, my CDE is not working anymore... I don't know what I did to break it... it says:

The desktop messaging system could not be started.

To correct the problem......

Any ideas as to what to check first???

Thanks.

[T G Manikandan]

First thing to check is

$HOME/dt/errorlog

Also run
/usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt

and check /var/dt/Xerrors

Revert

[Edgar Arroyo]

I checked (searched GOOGLE) and found out that NIS had to be running, I had set the NIS to 0.. strange...

Now my prob. is the wheel mouse locking up X...

[Mohanasundaram_1]

Hi Edgar,

The CDE problems are mostly due to the improper hostname resolution. Check your /etc/hosts file for any recent changes in the hostname.

ensure the presence of loopback entry 127.0.0.1 in hosts file.

Also run dr_dt from the text login, as indicated by mani, and correct if any errors are show there.

Rgds,
Mohan.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

As mentioned before, most of the times it is host-resolution problem.

Try getting onto the box using telnet and do "nslookup $(hostname)" and see if it works. If it doesn't work, then look in your /etc/hosts file to make sure the hostname is correctly resolved. If it works, then do "/etc/ping $(hostname)". This should also work.

Running /usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt should give you some hints.

-Sri