Desktop Messagin System could not be started

[Wolfgang Gassner]

I changed the IP address on our hp9000 server (HP-UX 11) via SAM and restarted the system.
Now I get the error message 'Desktop Messaging System could not be started' when loging on to CDE.
What can I do?

TIA,
Wolfgang

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

Double check name resolution is working using nslookup etc also are you using DNS ? If yes try using files first via /etc/nsswitch.conf ....any better ?

If no check /etc/hosts /etc/netconf etc in case there's a typo or an old copy of netconf.old lying around in /etc .. if yes move it to another dir.

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi,

I agree with Alex. check your resolving:

nslookup `hostname`

Hope this will help,

Gideon

[George_Dodds]

Check out the following post, i had a similar problem a while back.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x16c04e49c5cdd5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

Cheers

George

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Wolfgang,

Try this link,

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=09a562dd0e68893354/screen=ckiSearchResults?mode=id&searchString=KBRC00004164

Hope this helps.

Regds