Many thanks to everybody who replied. Especially Dan West whose answer quickly solved the problem. Original question: I recently installed 57 security patches using PCA on a Solaris 9 box and well, now when I try to log in from CDE I am asked for my username which I enter and press ok. When I do that, the screen clears and I am right back to the username prompt. It never asks me for the password. Rebooting does not fix, although I can get into the system if I select login from the command line. Answers: I received many helpful answers and tips for troubleshooting the problem. Michael Watson and Mathew Stier and suggested checking the logs in /var/dt and logging into the server from another box and exporting the display back. The process involved Killing the dtlogin -daemon processes and then trussing dtlogin (without -daemon) The solution that worked best for me though was from Dan West: " I had the same symptoms recently on a Solaris 9 system after installing the recommended/security patch cluster. In my case it only happened at the console. I could login via CDE from another system without problems. In my case it turned out to be the language setting in CDE. >From the CDE login screen pull down the "Options" menu and choose "Language". Then choose "C to de_DE.UTF-8". I then choose "C ------- POSIX". This corrected the problem for me. I never did track down which patch messed up this setting." Thanks again to everyone who responded! John _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Dec 9 11:53:14 2008
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