vue login not starting

[Howard Marshall]

Good morning all,

Need some help with a little vue error I am getting.

I am in the process of re-creating my backup server, a 9000/735 so I installed it with a make_tape_recovery tape from the production so I would have all the same software and patches and such.

I gave it a new name and IPadress on install and made some manual changes and the system comes up and I can access it with telnet and use reflectionX so its mostly working but it won't start the vue console login.

My Xerrors file keeps repeating this error


X server: Error in /etc/X11/X0screens (line 481)
Device name invalid or missing after keyword "Screen".
X server: Will try default "/dev/crt"
Failure to open default device file `/dev/crt`.
Please either specify the proper device filename in
your /etc/X11/X0screens file or fix `/dev/crt`. This filename is either
non-existent or is not a character special file.

Fatal server error:

X connection to qmidhp03:0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).


It says it can't open /dev/crt but I am not sure I believe that. I am leaning more towards a config file that has the production server hostname or ip address coded into it.

With minor exceptions both rc.log files are the same (some nfs exports and the production software are different) and I am running out of things to look at.

I have run the /usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_vue program and corrected what it said was wrong but still the vue login won't go.

Thanks for the help
H

[Steve Steel]

Hi

ll /dev/crt
crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 174 0x000000 Jun 21 1999 /dev/crt

lssf /dev/crt

pseudo driver framebuf minor 0x000000 /dev/crt

Does yours give this



Steve Steel

[Alex Glennie]

try a

rmsf /dev/*crt*#

followed by a

insf -evd framebuf

it may well help here ... ?

if that fails ensure ioscan -fnC graph comes back as claimed and post your X0screens entry well the bit''s uncommented ...

[Howard Marshall]

I removed then reinstalled the special files for the crt and rebooted the machine
I still get the same error message I can't find anything wrong with the device nodes.

Here is what I have

#ioscan -fnC graphics
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
===============================================================
graphics 0 1 graph3 CLAIMED INTERFACE Graphics



>#ll /dev/crt
crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 174 0x000000 Dec 2 11:26 /dev/crt

>#lssf /dev/crt
pseudo driver framebuf minor 0x000000 /dev/crt

>#uname -a
HP-UX qmidhp03 B.10.20 A 9000/735 2015231508 two-user license

>#tail -6 /etc/X11/X0screens
# Place any additional/different configuration information below.
#
###############################################################################

Screen /dev/crt



The message on the console is

Resuming HP VUE ...

The X-Server can not be started on Display qmidhp03:0 ...

Suspending HP VUE ...
Press [Return] for a login prompt
Login. HP VUE will Resume after you log out.

[MZ_1]

Just a dumb thought. Since you ignited it, check things like uname, hostname, nslookup, hosts. it could be looking for hostname.abc.com. All the setups look ok.

[Alex Glennie]

H


drop to run level 2


try a /usr/bin/X11/X: 0

use to break out if it works

[Howard Marshall]

I didn't drop to run level 2 but I can execute X from the console

I get the solid background that comes up and the cursor x just fine

[Raj D.]

Hi Howard ,

1. You can 'telnet' from another system and run
# /usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt

It will examine your system to determine if HP CDE can function properly & to find out errors.


2.

SAM==> Display ==> Xserver consfiguration.
Check if the adapter is configured properly.


Cheers,

Raj.

[Alex Glennie]

Then X is fine ignore the device errors ..

Does vue login appear on your console ?

Have you ensured hostname resolution is working correctly ?

do we use dns here ?

dr_vue output ?

if vue login screen can you login to a failsafe session ?

anythin in $HOME/.vue/start & error.logs ?

[Howard Marshall]

No, the vue login does not come up it stays in text mode and flashes the message that vue can't start

Yes, we use DNS

>#hostname
qmidhp03

>#uname -a
HP-UX qmidhp03 B.10.20 A 9000/735 2015231508 two-user license

>#nslookup qmidhp03
Name Server: nxsvr1.domain.com
Address: 186.194.13.2

Trying DNS
Name: qmidhp03.domain.com
Address: 186.194.13.6

Output of dr_vue is attached

[Christine Hartman]

check the permissions of this:

WARNING:/usr/vue/bin/vuedialog does not have the proper permissions. This
executable should have permissions of "-r-xr-xr-x".

[Howard Marshall]

Yea, I couldn't figure that one out either, the permissions are 666 so I don't know why it's reporting that as a warning.

>#ll /usr/vue/bin/vuedialog
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 262144 May 30 1996 /usr/vue/bin/vuedialog

[Alex Glennie]

from dr_vue output ....

186.194.13.98:0.0 is associated with your current display ... was this run local to the system ? or via a PC ?

If we edit

/etc/nsswitch.conf to

hosts: files

then add if needbe the FQDN of the 735 to /etc/hosts do we have any improvement ?

[Howard Marshall]

Yea, I tried switching from DNS to using the hosts file, tried just the hostname, the fully qualified host name

I'm chalking this one up to gremlins or some such.

I got tired of messing around with it and cut a new make_tape_recovery tape and re-installed this machine.

It came up perfectly and vue started with no modifications. Confused by this I did it one more time and it came up fine again.

Im calling it fixed and not worrying about it any more.

Thanks All for your help and I wish I had a better idea of what was wrong but that’s how it goes some times.

H