login Problem

[Rene_17]

I have newly installed the system. I configured the network and then I restart the system
After login the bluescreen vanish after few minutes and then the message came that the messagesystem could not be started !
Why ? It is a problem with the rpc daemon (rpcbind) ?

Please Help me !

[Pete Randall]

Rene,

Ususally this is indicative of a problem with hostname resolution. I would suggest you reboot in single user mode and double check your network configurations. You might want to use /sbin/set_parms to re-do your network configuration and hostname. Also double check that DNS has been updated properly.


Pete

[Umapathy S]

Rene,
If you are using CDE, check $HOME/.dt/*logs, especially startlog and errorlog. They can pinpoint the details.

These kind of errors occur wehn DNS mappings are not proper.

HTH,
Umapathy

[Patrick Wallek]

You will also want to verify that you can resolve both the hostname and IP address of this system correctly FROM the system itself.

From a Failsafe session or a command line on the system do:

# nslookup hostname

# nslookup ip.add.re.ss

Verify that it returns the correct information. If not, check your /etc/hosts file, /etc/resolv.conf file to verify that it has the correct DNS server entires and correct domain name, and also your /etc/nsswitch.conf file to verify it is using the correct resolution order. If you don't have an /etc/nsswitch.conf you can copy it from /etc/nsswitch.files and then modify the hosts line.

For hosts I always use:

hosts: files [ NOTFOUND=continue UNAVAIL=continue ] dns

[Rene_17]

# nslookup iff2
*** Warning - the local domain is not set.
*** Either hostname should be a domain name,
*** the domain should be specified in /etc/resolv.conf,
*** or the shell variable LOCALDOMAIN should be set.

Name Server: ns1.uibk.ac.at
Address: 138.232.1.4

Trying DNS
Trying NIS
looking up FILES
Name: iff2
Address: 138.232.81.3

# nslookup 138.232.81.3
*** Warning - the local domain is not set.
*** Either hostname should be a domain name,
*** the domain should be specified in /etc/resolv.conf,
*** or the shell variable LOCALDOMAIN should be set.

Name Server: ns1.uibk.ac.at
Address: 138.232.1.4

Trying DNS
Name: iff2.uibk.ac.at
Address: 138.232.81.3

[Rene_17]

i have set in resolv.conf:

domain uibk.ac.at

[Patrick Wallek]

Can you get into CDE now? Has anything changed?

[Rene_17]

Thanks for your attention !
It was the problem with the domain !