rpc.ttdbserver errors - help!

[Dan Jackson]

Hi:

I'm getting some errors in syslog.log from rpc.ttdbserver on a 10.20 client workstation - the error is: /usr/dt/bin/rpc.ttdbserver[1090] rpc.ttdbserver versin (1.1) does not match the version () of the database tables. Please install an rpc.ttdbserverd version (or greater).

Any idea what's causing this, and how to fix it? None of the files in /TT_DB have been touched recently. Re-booting does not help.

This workstation is 712/80, experiencing some I/O problems, user home directories are NFS mounted from an HP11.0 file server. Logging in to this workstation with one of these logins hangs forever - and the shell can not be killed - which points to some I/O problem. Logging in to any other client workstation is OK. Local logins (root) work fine.

Help!

Dan

[Alex Glennie]

FYI : latest 10.20 CDE Patch = PHSS_20860 + dependancy : PHSS_19963 ... hope above explains / helps a little ?

Alex

[Rita C Workman]

I found some info on this. It seems the problem has to do with Tooltalk. It references Sun here...but I think the info is pertinent for you too:
The problem you're seeing with Solaris 2.6 and will see if not already
with HP-UX 10.20 CDE when NFS-mounting home directories from an Auspex
NFS server are due to incompatible versions of ToolTalk.

The Auspex server runs an older version of SunOS (4.1.3) which included
an early version of ToolTalk. ToolTalk is a Sun product for network
data interchange. More recently (1992), several companies formed a
consortium to develop what has become CDE, or the Common Desktop
Environment, which uses ToolTalk. The ToolTalk defined and used for
the CDE standard, however, is incompatible with versions of ToolTalk
older than 1.0. This includes the version shipped with SunOS 4.1.3.

Both Solaris 2.6 and HP-UX 10.20 support CDE and, hence, this newer
version of ToolTalk (1.1). Unfortunately, ToolTalk is NFS-aware (NFS
is another Sun product and the two try to work together) and the
incompatibilities between the two versions adversely effect the
operation of NFS.

Since the older version of ToolTalk on the Auspex isn't used by any
software we're aware of, there should be no consequences for disabling
it other than allowing NFS to work correctly.

It can be disabled by removing or commenting out the entry for
rpc.ttdbserver in /etc/inetd.conf, then restarting inetd (inetd -c on
an HP-UX machine, check the man page for the correct syntax on SunOS
or just kill it and restart it with no options).