Why I can not login on CDE?

[John Liu]

Dear friends,

I recently intalled 10.20 (Dec. 1999) version HP-UX on my B3600 system. Everything seems work smootly during installation. When system booted, I login as root on CDE, I got a message window "Unable to initialize or connect to the Desktop messageing system. Check your $HOME/.dt/errorlog for more information". whenever I click OK it go back exit the session. But I can login by changing to Failsafe session.

What's wrong with my installation?

Thanks

John L

[Andy Monks]

Hi John,

You've got a problem with the way you've setup networking on that machine.

Check /etc/hosts is correct (even if you use DNS/NIS). /etc/hosts MUST have the '127.0.0.1 localhost loopback' entry and an entry for this machine. It also must have the short name first. For example :-

14.51.45.62 fred fred.flintstone.com

and not

14.51.45.62 fred.flintstone.com fred

Also, DNS/NIS must resolve the hostname too (assuming your using either of these).

the 'hostname' command must also be the short name.

After that it 'should' work.

Andy

[skarunanidhi]

Hi!
1. Confirm your network card is up.
# lanscan
should be able to tell you whether your network adapter is up or not.

2.If you use NIS. Try this entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf. If you don't have it in /etc/ directory, copy from /usr/newconfig/etc/nsswitch.conf and edit hosts entry like the following,

hosts files[NOTFOUND=continue] nis dns

3.Ping to your hostname and confirm that your naming service is working fine.


Regards,
S.Karunanidhi

[Alex Glennie]

I agree it sounds like networking : check using nslookup on both ip and hostname.

Try re-running set_parms ?

What's in $HOME/.dt/errorlog ? To gather more info : add set -x in .dtprofile and log in again.

Anythining in /var/dt/Xerrors or the syslog.log eg Tooltalk errors ?

Try running the CDE diagnotic : /usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt