HP-UX System start error

[Charles Dragar]

This problem was answered by David Hixson a couple of years ago in a SearchHP message titled:

THIS WEEK: What keeps you awake at night?
on Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:47:14 -0700

Unfortunately this file has disappeared from the web. The original question refers to a user of the HP-UX Chemstation software who like myself was unable to start the system.

The problem is that I cannot start a session. The error message reads: could not signal dacmd program that a Startup or Shutdown is wanted. Do you know what the problem is?"

Your help would be most appreciated.

[D Block 2]

Charles,

The dacmd program is this part of what ? Any more details would help.. is this something to do with CDE ?

[Bharat Katkar]

hi there,
I assume that dacmd is some kind of application running on your System.
If that is the case and systems is not able to start the application then one thing i can doubt is the startup scirpt.
Normally apllication startup scirpt are in /sbin/init.d and there related confugration files are in /etc/rc.config.d.

So you can have a look at /sbin/init.d and /etc/rc.config.d directory to see whether the scirpt exists, configuration is correct and if not restore/correct it.

If you could explain it in more datils then it will help forummer to respond.

Regards,

[Charles Dragar]

Thanks for the two quick replies! I am new to forums so apologies for the lack of detail. I think you are right in saying one of the configuration files is wrong.
The dacmd program is part of the HP-UX Chemsystem data acquisition and control program used on a HP5989 mass spectrometer. I mothballed the HP-UX system 2years ago and started using a Windows version. However everything has its uses.. and even the aging HP-UX software does some unique things. I am trying to use it again without success.
The HP-UX OS boots OK but when trying to start the Chemsystem program there is a notification box which very briefly flashes saying something like "reading instrument names" and then the aforementioned notice comes up.
I have all of the HP-UX manuals and the Chemsystem manuals but neither describe the configuration file structure. I don't know a lot of UNIX so any help with where to look would be appreciated.

[Senthil Kumar .A_1]

Hi Dragar,

I doubt, mothballing the server would have caused any issues to configuration files.

Anyway, could you attach the startup script of this process, to get this info please

cd /sbin/init.d
grep -i -s dacmd *

EX : The second command will display in the following pattern...

$ grep -i -s senthil *
t1:senthil

Please attach the file which has this line , that would be "filename", in my example it would have been "t1".

Regards.

(lets hope the config file will give us some clues).