CDE Startup Errors in Solaris 10

From: Tim Evans (tkevans@tkevans.com)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2005 - 06:36:18 EST


Just upgraded from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 (upgrade install). Install
did not report any errors, and system appears to be running ok.

However, CDE users cannot log into their desktops. (Java desktop works
ok.) Pop-up error message is that "desktop messaging" can't be started, and
displays a list of files to check for proper reference to system's
hostname, including /etc/src.sh and /usr/adm/inetd.sec.

Once you click ok in the pop-up, the user is returned to the login screen;
session ends.

Neither of these files exists on the system, and I can't find any reference to
them on Sunsolve, or in the Solaris 10 and CDE docs on docs.sun.com.

There's also a note in the error message to check for magic cookie errors in
/var/adm/messages and in $HOME/.dt/errorlog. The latter file reports the
same inability to start messaging, but has nothing about cookies.
Here's the whole thing:

Sat Feb 05 13:03:04 2005
Workspace Manager: Key bindings DtKeyBindings not found, using builtin
key bindi
ngs

Sat Feb 05 13:03:04 2005
Workspace Manager: Button bindings DtButtonBindings not found, using
builtin but
ton bindings

Sat Feb 05 13:05:04 2005
dtsession: Unable to start message server - exiting.

Sat Feb 05 13:05:04 2005
dtwm: Invalid Integer -- -1

Sat Feb 05 13:05:04 2005
Workspace Manager: Menu specification DtPanelMenu not found

Finally, and I'm not sure whether this is related, the CDE calendar
manager reports the inability to open the user's calendar file.
/var/adm/messages reports:

Feb 5 12:54:40 osprey libcsa: [ID 702911 user.error] Can't access
calendar for tkevans@osprey, osprey: RPC: Rpcbind failure - RPC: Timed
out

Thanks for any help you can provide.

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