HP UX 10.20 (Tooltalk)

[Chris Hendrich]

I just installed HPUX version 10.20 on a HP model 712/60 from the CD and therfore wiping the HD in the process.

I try to log-in as normal session, but I get an error. Error message on the screen is "Unable to intialize or connect to the Desktop messaging system. Check you $Home/.dt/errorlog for more information. Press OK and your session will reset"

I can only login as failsafe.

Does anyone know how I should proceed to fix this problem?

I looked in the /.dt/errorlog file and found the following:

dtsession: The ToolTalk session server(ttsession) could not be started. This indicates that either ToolTalk is not installed or that it is not installed correctly on this machine. Please see your System Administrator.

Workspace Manager: I/O error on display::my_computer:0.0

[Craig Rants]

Chris,
When you are in failsafe mode, check out your /etc/inetd.conf file. See if rpc.ttdbserver is commented out, if so uncomment it and run inetd -c, then try again. If it is not commented out, chech /var/adm/inetd.sec to make sure that it has not been denied in any way.

Make sure that you have the latest tooltalk patches as that it is a very insecure part of a HPUX box.

Let us know,
GL,
C

[Steve Steel · Accepted solution]

Hi

You seem to have a hostname problem.

do an nslookup of name and ip address.

run /usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt and correct the errors


Check permissons on /etc /var/adm $HOME/.dt
/var/adm/inetd.sec must contain the following lines:

dtspc allow [hostnames or '*'. No aliases]
spc allow [hostnames or '*'. No aliases]
mserve allow [hostnames or '*'. No aliases]

If not add these lines to the end and run /usr/sbin/inetd -c .


Steve Steel

Steve Steel

[Chris Hendrich]

Sorry, but the above item did not work.

I think I set my default gateway address incorrectly when installing HPUX 10.20

How do I edit this item, or temproarly disable the network startup at system startup? I need to do this from command line.

Thanks,
Chris

[Alex Glennie]

Check for hostname resolution problems ... I'd be tempted to run set_parms and fill in my networking details again.

Tooltalk needs this working dr_dt output may gve you some clues ?

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Do a "set_parms ip_address" to set the ip address and gateway info for the system.

The other options are
hostname : set hostname
timezone : set timezone
date_time : set time and date
root_passwd : set root password
addl_netwrk : set additional network / DNS / NIS info
initial : Reconfigure all install time options.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Peter Kloetgen]

Hi Mike,

If is very easy to stop networking temporarily at system start, all you have to do is to change the initdefault- entry in the /etc/inittab - file to 1 ( default is 3 ). But you still have to enter a correct entry for your default gateway. You can do that with the way the other guys here allready described, or by changing manually in the file /etc/rc.config.d/netconf.

Allways stay on the bright side of life!

Peter

[Harold Kirschner]

I had the same problem, nslookup could not resolve the name on my HPUX system. I made modifications on my gateway server (Windows system, manually added and entry for my HPUX server in the \winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file).
Once the HPUX server was able to resolve the name, I was able to access CDE over a reflectionX link.

Thanks for the tip
Harold