hpux 11i Ver 1.6 CDE error

[Ed Wright]

I did a clean install of 11i Ver1.6 this is the IA64 ver. I allowed the system to do the whole install, now when CDE starts it gives me the error"desktop messaging system could not be started". The only failure during ipl was NFS client. Does anyone have any ideas, also when I go into Failsafe and try too mount the DVD it says device busy, again any clues, if already mounted, any clue what they call the cd/dvd by default?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The most common cause for this kind of problem is hostname resolution including itself. I would make certain that /etc/nsswitch.conf first uses 'files' and that there is a definition for this box in /etc/hosts and that there is a localhost loopback entry in the hosts file as well.

[Ed Wright]

Thanks Clay,
But the file nsswitch.conf does not reside on my system. The host file does have a loopback entry, 127.0.0.1 which is correct.

[S.K. Chan]

Attached is some troubleshooting steps you can take to determine what causes the "desktop messaging system .." error. Hope it helps.

[Ed Wright]

Thanks S.K.
My hosts file shows user and group of root, how do I change them to bin?

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

chmod bin:bin hosts

RJ.

[Ed Wright]

RJ,
When I type chmod bin:bin hosts, I get an invalid mode.

Ed

[S.K. Chan · Accepted solution]

It's "chown" (change owner)..
# chown bin:bin /etc/hosts

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

sorry sorry Ed, thousend apologies.

Thanks Chan for the correction.

Robert-Jan.