How to enter the CDE Desktop

[westyu]

I enter the CDE Login Screen and type the user name and pwd, but the screen display:

"Unable to initialize or connect to the desktop.
messaging systen. check your HOME/.dt.errorlog
for more information."
attaching the errorlog file.
My workstation's Operation system: HP-UX10.20.

How to enter the CDE desktop?

[Caesar_3 · Accepted solution]

Hello!

Does your graphics card work OK?
The login screen you see OK?

Caesar

[westyu]

If the graphic card bad, What have I way to check it ?
thks.

[Kiran Kumar Aekabote]

Hi,

If U r trying at console, then U r sure that the m/c ip address is matching with the host ip address in /etc/hosts.

ex. ip_address of m/c as 1.2.3.4
in /etc/hosts, the entry should be like
1.2.3.4 myhost.mydomain.com myhost

Good Luck...

[westyu]

I still don't solved this problem, Who can help me!

[Caesar_3]

Hi,

Lets check if you can run X.
Exit from CDE login to command line
and enter with your user.
Run startx command and see if you X is up
If it will up then it will say for us that
the problem only in CDE and not with card or X.
Then it maybe problem of patch!
Does CDE worked on this station or it's the first time?

Caesar

[Bill Douglass]

The system is complaining that it cannot start up the tooltalk session manager (ttsession).

Do a swlist -l fileset | grep CDE.CDE-TT and check that this is installed. If so, do a ps -ef | grep ttsession to see if it is running, and kill it if it is (may be hung).

[westyu]

I have already restall the HP-UX, and still could not solved it.

Restalled it, the system is OK. I can enter X-windows, but after doing sth, the Xwindow dead,
I had no way, and just power off. In the Second time, I enter the CDE Login Screen and type the user name and pwd, the window restart the CDE Login Screen, could not enter the X window. and file
$HOME/.dt.errorlog also display:

Sat Jun 14 23:04:33 2003
Workspace Manager: I/O error on display:: :0.0

thank you

[Alex Glennie]

Looks to me like this is connected to problems with hostname resolution.

Try this :

vi /etc/hosts

include the local displays hostname and ip address.

vi /etc/nsswitch.conf

hosts: files [ NOTFOUND = continue ]dns

check with nslookup that you can correctly resolve the hostname and ipaddress then attempt to login :

if the problem continues : run /usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt ... resolve warmings/errors : comment on what h/w is involved here and ip addresses / contents of /etc/hosts ...

ps does a CDE failsafe session work : set from CDE Options panel prior to login.