Not able to start my CDE HP-UX 11.11

[Diva]

Hi All,

I have running HP-UNIX as a standalone machine(not in a network). When i try to start CDE it is listing some errors like,

Check to see that the desktop installed properly, etc/hosts the hostname is correct.

Please help me out
Thanks in Advance

[Hemanth Gurunath Basrur]

Hello,

Refer to this documents for starting CDE:

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1171-90104/B1171-90104_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1171-90104/00/00/6-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1171-90104/00/00/6-toc.html&searchterms=CDE%7cstarting&queryid=20040516-072631

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1171-90500/B1171-90500_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1171-90500/00/00/7-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1171-90500/00/00/7-toc.html&searchterms=CDE%7cstarting&queryid=20040516-072631

HTH.

Regards,
Hemanth

[Bharat Katkar]

Well that docs can guide you properly and plus i would like to tell U something:

try pinging to your hostname.
#ping
#ping localhost

See if ping works. In case you are not able to do that check /etc/hosts file for proper hostname/ip address entries.
Even if see one, try deleting it and creating new one ( May be some unwanted char got inside).

All the best.

[PC_7]

Hi Diva,

Please refer to doc id KBRC00002373 and KBRC00004688 for setting up CDE to run on a standalone configuration.

Hope this helps.

Rgds,
Pau Cen

[Julian Snype]

check the following files for proper entries

/etc/hosts
/etc/resolv/conf
/etc/rc.config.d/netconf


If the above is correct make sure that following is correctly configured

/etc/nsswitch.conf

with the enty:

host: files dns


Hope this helps
Julian Snype

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Dive,

could you run this command and check for the ERROR messages.

# dr_dt

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Ted Buis]

If you have an /etc/resolv.conf file, often doing mv /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.old
will solve the problem.
then go into sam and set up the networking to reflect that you just want to search /etc/hosts for name resolution which is necessary for CDE to run.

[Dani Seely]

Hey Diva,
Most times I have come across this, it's been due to a networking misconfiguration ... either /etc/nsswitch.conf or /etc/resolv.conf. However, it could possibly be a setting problem with your profile. Look for a log file in your home directory, maybe /.dt/errlog or /.dt/startlog.