lost "Command Line Login" from CDE Options menu

[Klaus Frank]

Hallo

I recently installed "GNOME" to my workstations (HP-UX 11.i). When I turned back to CDE Desktop I realized that the "Command Line Login" Option disappeared (grayed out) from the login Options dialogue.
Any ideas where I can look for it and how I can bring this option back to active.

Thanks
Klaus

[Steve Steel · Accepted solution]

Hi

If you see this

cat /etc/rc.config.d/desktop
# CDE Desktop enabled Thu Jan 16 06:32:20 EST 2003
#DESKTOP=CDE
DESKTOP=GNOME
DTPRTSVR=

Then the CDE simulation is on top of gnome so a command line login will not work because closing off CDE you go back to gnome.

Put the desktop back to CDE init 2 init 3
and it should be fine

Steve Steel

[Alex Glennie]

Klaus,

Not really however I strongly suspect if you reboot, restart X or drop to run-level 2 and then back to 3 the problem will resolve itself. I have seen this on well patched systems without gnome installed. I think dtlogin
has a "little problem".

But why turn back to the CDE desktop, from the gnome screen you can choose to log into CDE and/or receive a Console login see the session & system options on the gnome login panel.

[Alex Glennie]

Klaus,

just found out why it's greyed out : most likely reason is someone has already logged onto the console it's greyed out for security reasons ie root could be logged on but a user could be logged into CDE.

ps -ef | grep -sh should show the shell process ....