VUE login problem

[George Liu_2]

After fsck / partition followed by reboot, an HP 9000/700 (HP 10.20) workstation prompt an error window after X-login session, and login is killed and screen is back to normal login window.
No problem in no-xwindow login session.
How to fix that?

[Allan Pincus · Accepted solution]

George,

Do you mean VUE or CDE? I'll assume CDE.

I've seen login problems with CDE when the following occurs:

1. The /etc/hosts file is corrupt or incorrect. Either the hostname does not match the nfs.conf file or there is no loopback address set.
2. If using DNS, the resolve.conf file cannot be found.
3. The /etc/passwd file is wrong for the user logging
4. The home directory pointed to in the /etc/passwd file for the user logging in does not exist.

Go to single user mode, or start a failsafe session, and check these things out. Let me know.

- Allan

[George Liu_2]

Allan,

It's VUE and all files mentioned to be checked were never touched by this fsck time. And a non-superuser can login in via X login. Thanks.
:-) George

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi
Log in with no-window session (or failsafe session) and check the file $HOME/.vue/errorlog for error messages.

[George Liu_2]

Leif,

Your info is very useful, Following are the error messages. Could that be a hardware problem?

Mon Sep 09 03:23:32 2002
vuesession: cannot find a message server
Make sure that there is a message server running and
that either $DISPLAY or $MSERVE were set correctly
both when softbench was started and also in the current environment.


Mon Sep 09 03:23:32 2002
vuesession: cannot find a message server
Make sure that there is a message server running and
that either $DISPLAY or $MSERVE were set correctly
both when softbench was started and also in the current environment.

Mon Sep 09 03:23:32 2002
vuesession: The '/usr/bms/config/softinit'
initialization file for the Execution Manager does not exist
or is not readable.


Mon Sep 09 03:23:32 2002
vuesession: Could not find the Execution Manager initialization file (softinit).

Mon Sep 09 03:23:32 2002
vuesession: cannot find a message server
Make sure that there is a message server running and
that either $DISPLAY or $MSERVE were set correctly
both when softbench was started and also in the current environment.

Mon Sep 09 03:23:32 2002
vuesession: Unable to start message server - exiting.

Mon Sep 09 03:23:32 2002
vuesession: Can't register callback pattern: "LOCK_DISPLAY" (no message server connection)

Mon Sep 09 03:23:32 2002
vuesession: Can't register callback pattern: "EXIT_SESSION" (no message server connection)

Mon Sep 09 03:23:32 2002
vuesession: Can't register callback pattern: "STOP" (no message server connection)

Mon Sep 09 03:23:32 2002
vuesession: Can't register callback pattern: "STATUS" (no message server connection)

Mon Sep 09 03:23:38 2002
Workspace Manager: I/O error on display:: gvas1:0.0

[Alex Glennie]

in no windows mode run /usr/bms/bin/softmsgsrv -norootwindow ...any errors ?

ensure correct perms on /etc/hosts and also run VUE diagnostic -> dr_vue (/usr/contrib/bin/X11 )

ll /opt/softbench/bin ?

in /usr/adm/inetd.sec the hostname MUST be allowed for 'mserve' and 'spc'.

ensure /usr/spool/sockets has correct permissions.

If only root afected mv roots .vueprofile and .profile and .vue directory out of the way and then attempt another login ...

If the following patches are not installed install them -> PHSS_11136 & PHSS_26788

[George Liu_2]

I guess I need to install the patches. Thanks, folks.

:-) George