unable to login ordinary account on CDE

[eykyn17]

Hello Mentors,
I'm new from this furom and have only intermediate knowledge on Unix.
I have a problem with our unix box its HPC8000 running on HPUX 11.11 OS. The ordinary account "users" cannot login to CDE it will automatically close upon login in and return to login prompt but if i use the root account no problem at all i tried issuing command ps -eaf | grep echo then this is the result:
root 3825 3797 0 21:51:43 ? 0:00 /sbin/sh -c echo 'not sourcing //.profile (see //.dtprofile)';

When i kill this one it will close and the login prompt appear. Some of our station dont have this process.

Hope to have your response.

thanks,

[Rick Garland]

Under the particular users $HOME is a directory .dt

~$HOME/.dt

Inside this directory is an errorlog file. Check the contents and see if any clues are present.

[Rick Garland]

Under the particular users $HOME is a directory .dt

~$HOME/.dt

Inside this directory is an errorlog file. Check the contents and see if any clues are present.

Also check some of the other log files, ie, startlog.

[eykyn17]

I will update you the logs
thanks Rick

[Joseph C. Denman]

I suspect a permission issue somewhere? If you works and users don't, there is usually a permission issue somewhere.

...jcd...

[eykyn17]

we actually have NIS, all users are authenticated through NIS server. Only this statation had a problem. I haven't seen any logs related to login locally but i saw on the NIS server which is no problem. It might be permission issue but what is the particullar files that used this to login

any ideas

[Joseph C. Denman]

I would probably start with /etc/passwd. Ensure the shell is correct. Can you telnet to the server? How far do you get in a telnet?

...jcd...

[rariasn]

Verify DNS configuration and /etc/hosts in server and PC client.

rgs,
ran

[Joseph C. Denman]

raraisn is correct. CDE is very sensitive to DNS resolution. I have seen the permissions being incorrect on the nsswitch.conf and/or resolv.conf cause this type of behavior.

...jcd...

[Rick Garland]

In /usr/contrib/bin/X11 is a file called 'dr_dt'

Run this script and review the WARNINGS and ERRORS. This can provide some clues

[eykyn17]

guys thanks for all your response this forum really help me. Thanks

[Joseph C. Denman]

Did you get your problem solved??????? What was the solution?

...jcd...

[eykyn17]

due to time constrain I just use the ignite. Since the users has a lots od deadline on his workloads.

Thank you for all your support. I really appreciate it in fact I documented all your response in case this will happen again