HP-UX 11.00

[Brian Winkler_2]

I just did a clean install of 11.00 on a hp712-80 this is a single user machine
with no network. When I login to cde the screen turns black and cde resets to
the login screen without ever showing the desktop. I can login fine from
console login. During the boot process I do get a "start RPC daemon if needed
(FAIL)" when I checked the log this was the message I got:

Start RPC daemon if needed
output from /sbin/rc2.d/s590Rpcd Start:
Starting the DCE RPC daemon /opt/dce/sbin/rpcd
Exit Code 1
/sbin/rc2.d/s590Rpcd start failed

If this makes sense to anyone please email me with any help you can

bwinkler@megsinet.net

Thank you

[user not active]

Sounds as if the problem is wrt $DISPLAY, if you see the CDE login panel, the
local Xserver has been started but could be defaulting to :0, however CDE would
require it to be set. Best thing to do is check /var/dtXerrors,run
/usr/contrib/bin/x11/dr_dt and view $HOME/.dt/startlog, place xset -x in
dtprofile first as it generates more than just the few lines of info as in the
default.

You may consider also checking out /etc/hosts and make sure an nslookup of both
ip address and hostname works.

Also make sure the system is patched, also can you login to a failsafe session
?, my suspicion is the start-up error maybe separate at the moment.

alex

[Simon Waters_2]

I concur with Alex, problems login into CDE or VUE are often network related.

Generally CDE shouldn't need the DCE RPC mechanism to start, so the first error
probably doesn't cause the second.

However the first error could also be due to a networking issue.

[Anthony Goonetilleke_1]

CDE needs RPC to work properly! when you log into your machine do a rpcinfo -p
and check to see if you can see the registered services. If you cannot do this
you need to fix the rpc problem first.

You said your machine is not on the network, make sure you can ping your
machine name from itself including localhost.

[Brian Winkler_2]

When I checked the logs I did find the system to be defaulting to display :0
but how do I change this and what do I change this to. I can not even login to
a failsafe session.

Brian