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----- Original Message -----
From: Sunder <sunder at sunder.net>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] sol 2.5.1 cde probs...


> Keith Simonsen wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm running solaris 2.5.1 on my 3Gx... the other day I was using
netscape
> > and a couple dtterms, when i couldnt start any more apps due to a Shared
> > Memory error (ipcs reported no shared mem in use though). Well It got
> > locked up so I hard booted it via STOP-A, boot.
>
> There's probably some junk left over in your home directory.  I had a
> similar problem with temp files, but solaris wipes /tmp on boot...
> So the suggestion is login using command prompt mode, create a bad-cde
> folder in your home and move .cde* to it along with any .X* files and
> see if that fixes it.
>
> After you're up and running you can restore your .dtprofile and other
> files one by one to see what caused the issue...
>
> One way to test if this will work or not is to login as your root
> account
> to CDE (I assume your user account is the bad one, yes?), if that works
> fine, then for sure it's in your home dir.  If you can't login as root
> (or any user to CDE) it's probably that you blew away a library or
> binary
> that gets called up on when CD starts.   In that case, just reinstall
> CDE.
>
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