Login Screen Disappears

[Ragni Singh]

Hi All,

I am having a hard time logging in. It seems everytime I login, my screen disappears. I have even tried it as root and it doesn't work. The password is valid and not locked for both accounts so I know its not the password. I am able to login as root via the web console. Any help is appreciated.

[Darren Prior]

Hi Sanjay,

Can you give us some more detail please? :)

What version of HP-UX are you running?
Is this a trusted system?
Is this logging in via CDE, telnet, ReflectionX, etc?

Has this just started happening since you made a change or installed some software, or has it always happened?

regards,

Darren.

[Martin Johnson]

Check your .profile, /etc/profile, etc for stty settings. A "stty ospeed 0" will automatically log you off.

HTH
Marty

[Steven E. Protter]

I you have access to the system console, you might want to check GSP. Control-B

I've been getting similar problems and there is a message in GSP.

ALERT LEVE: 13 = System Hang detected via timer popping.

We think this is a hardware problem.

SEP

[Ragni Singh]

I put some patches yesterday for NNM upgrade to 6.4. I'm running 11.0 on a A-500 server. None of the answers so far has helped.

[Alex Glennie]

OK Sanjay,

We still don't know what method of login, cde ,gsp telent logins etc ....

Since this is an A500 I'll assume since it can have a graphics card that this is the case and it's CDE that's the problem, if not please ignore, but detail how you are logging in.

OK here goes :

ps -ef | grep dtlogin ?

if it's there cp /usr/dt/config/Xservers -> /etc/dt/config/Xservers .

vi /etc/dt/config/Xservers

* Local local@console /usr/bin/X11/X :0

wq!

Then /sbin/init 2 followed by /sbin/init 3

result ?

If that fails please try /sbin/init 2
followed by /usr/bin/X11/X :0 ... result ? errors ? nb use to kill if need be.

Lastly try running dr_dt and post the output,along with /var/dt/Xerrors and any errors in /etc/rc.log.

[Ragni Singh]

Oh, I'm sorry. I use a putty application to login directly. I am able to ssh from another server but its directly loggin gin in the issue. Thanks for your help.

[Anil C. Sedha]

Ok let's see...

If you are using CDE check your profile. if you are doing a export DISPLAY to a IP which is not valid, you will not be able to login.


Do a telnet from DOS prompt and comment the export DISPLAY line.

If you are using a telnet, and the command prompt is not available, check out if your history file is being set. This is a bug and sometimes causes issues. So in your profile file you provide a path as export HISTFILE=/tmp/user.out

Let us know if there are further issues, though it would be great if there would have been some info on how you are logging in and whether the screen dissapears or gets stuck.

- Anil