From: Christopher L. Barnard (cbar44@tsg.cbot.com)
Date: Wed Nov 16 2005 - 16:19:42 EST
I am not sure of the root cause of this failure. I am including everything
I can think of, but not all may be relevant.
Users of Sun Blade 150 running Solaris 9 in an NIS environment cannot log
on to their workstation with the Gnome desktop. This was first
seen on Tuesday, but as no one logs out and logs in regularly that may not
indicate when the problem started.
These are NIS client desktops. The NIS Master server was patched and rebooted
on Wednesday morning (1am or so). The NIS Slave server was patched and
rebooted Monday evening. This environment only has these two NIS servers.
Users who were already logged in when the patching occurred are fine. If
they log out they cannot log back in, however.
When a user attempts to log in with Gnome 2.0, Gnome 1.4, or KDE, their
desktop will sit forever at the black screen right after the login box.
Command-line logins are working fine.
Logging in with CDE is working fine.
Logging in with Gnome on a system that has been patched but is an NIS slave
server or master server is working fine.
On my NIS client workstation, I did a command-line login and wiped out all
of my gnome configuration files (sniff. I have to rebuild them all now).
That did not help.
I enabled logging in my .dtprofile. Nothing is logged other than "Starting
GNOME 2.0"
Sun Support is stumped. I am one of the users who cannot login, and where
I am now working does not have www access. So I am unable to determine if
any of the patches are known to have problems. As you can see, it is quite
a few patches.
111711-14/ 113077-15/ 115544-02/ 117124-10/
111712-14/ 113277-36/ 115683-03/ 118305-05/
112621-12/ 113318-22/ 116009-05/ 118558-14/
112764-08/ 113713-21/ 116014-04/ 119211-05/
112785-52/ 114332-23/ 116047-02/ 120464-01/
112817-25/ 114564-08/ 116340-04/
112838-11/ 114571-02/ 116543-04/
112945-39/ 114818-06/ 116669-11/
112954-13/ 115158-09/ 116807-02/
112964-14/ 115542-02/ 117123-04/
Can anyone suggest other things to try? TIA and I will summarize.
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