[Sunhelp] Cannot start CDE - hangs at the welcome screen

[Steve Pribyl]

I have goofyness like this when there are problems resolving IP addresses
and names. 
Check your host file/DNS file/IP Traslators etc to make sure that the name
of the box and its ip addresses can be resolved.
You may need to reboot the box or restart CDE(?, don't know specific of
CDE).

Currently on my HP I can re-login after starting an ppp session and
logining out.  I have not yet fixed this, it is something about being able
to resolve the ppp ip address to the correct host name.  I my case there
is none so when CDE trys to figure out what the name of the host is from
the ppp IP it has found it bails.

I hope this helps.

Steve Pribyl
spribyl at enteract.com
http://www.enteract.com/~spribyl



On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Hoang, Tram (DIS) wrote:

> Hello!
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> Cannot start CDE - hangs at the welcome screen.  I have tried to
> troubleshoot this problem with the procedures:  "Cleaning out the Tooltalk
> databases."  I have also performed a patch backout on following patches:
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> 105338-25
> 105669-10
> 105802-12
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> I have also tried to logon into open windows and also hangs at the welcome
> screen.  In the .dt directory, date file, this message I receive: 
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> dtsession:connection to server lost -existing
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> I am working on a firewall server-solaris 2.6.  Appreciate your assistance!
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