My original question is below concerning the very slow startup of the CDE and OpenWindows on a Solaris 7 Ultra 10. Thanks to the following for their responses; Casper Dik chakravarthi s viswanadh Mark Hargrave Steve Sandau Eric Priebe Deborah Santomauro David Foster Gnanagurusamy B Nobody actually came up with the magic solution but I did manage to fix it myself (although I'm not 100% convinced I know why). Special thanks to Chakravarthi for a detailed description of the Xsession boot phase. Most of you told me to check the /etc/hosts and IP name of the machine. These were all OK, the /etc/hosts file was correct and the IP name had not been changed only the IP number. So /etc/hostname.<*> and /etc/nodename were OK. I could ping to, and from, the machine fine and nslookup worked. Even NIS worked fine. I have done the IP number change lots of times without using sysunconfig and usually there were no problems. What I did find was that the old network mask had been set in /etc/netmasks. Changing this to the new mask seemed to solve the problem. However I had also made some changes in the DNS server that should not have been relevant, so I cannot be sure. Thanks for all your help. Peter > I've searched the archives and looked all over for the solution to > this problem but with no real success. Time to ask the experts. > > We have seen the same problem on a number of different machines with > different versions of Solaris. For now I need to sort out a solution > on an Ultra 10 running Solaris 7. > > We have recently changed IP numbers on the machines and I suspect that > the problem is related to that. However DNS (and NIS) all seems to be > working perfectly on the culprits. > > The basic problem is when trying to log on with either CDE or OpenWindows. > The logon process accepts the UID/password but then hangs at the white > CDE screen. Eventually (several minutes later) the window system comes > up but if CDE is used it does not operate correctly. Windows cannot be > moved, resized, minimised etc and there is no panel. > > There are NO messages in /var/dt/Xerrors! > > I do see the following message in /.dt/startlog > > :::::::::::::: > startlog > :::::::::::::: > --- Mon Mar 4 16:51:55 MET 2002 > --- /usr/dt/bin/Xsession starting... > --- starting /usr/openwin/bin/speckeysd > --- Xsession started by Xsession > --- setting font path... > --- starting /usr/dt/bin/dtsession_res -load -system > --- sourcing //.dtprofile... > --- sourcing /etc/dt/config/Xsession.d/0001.firstlogin... > --- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0010.dtpaths... > --- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0015.sun.env... > --- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0020.dtims... > --- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0030.dttmpdir... > --- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0040.xmbind... > --- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/1000.solregis... > --- could not read //.profile > --- starting /usr/dt/bin/dthello -string 'Starting the OpenWindows Desktop' & > --- starting /usr/dt/bin/dtsearchpath > --- starting /usr/dt/bin/dtappgather & > --- starting /usr/dt/bin/dsdm & > --- session log file is /dev/null > --- DTSOURCEPROFILE is 'true' (see //.dtprofile) > --- execing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.ow2 with a /sbin/sh login shell ... > --- starting desktop on /dev/pts/3 > Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.7 Generic October 1998 > You have mail. > /usr/dt/bin/ttsession[610]: starting > /usr/dt/bin/Xsession[732]: 595 Hangup > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). > > > which suggests an Xsession problem. > > I have tried to compare the various CDE/Xsession config files to a working > system but cannot find any obvious problems and there are so many to look > at that I'm getting lost. > > Does anyone have any idea what the problem is and how it can be fixed? > +----------------------------------------------------+ |Dr. Peter Watkins |email: watkins@jrc.nl | |Joint Research Centre |tel: +31-224-565120 | |Petten |fax: +31-224-561251 | |The Netherlands |http: www.jrc.nl | +----------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Mar 6 02:33:23 2002
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