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

[Hoang, Tram (DIS)]

Thanks Steve.  I will try this out!

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Steve Pribyl [SMTP:spribyl at enteract.com]
> Sent:	Friday, March 31, 2000 11:37 AM
> To:	'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'
> Subject:	Re: [Sunhelp] Cannot start CDE - hangs at the welcome screen
> 
> 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!
> > 
> > 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:
> > 
> > 105338-25
> > 105669-10
> > 105802-12
> > 
> > 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: 
> > 
> > dtsession:connection to server lost -existing
> > 
> > I am working on a firewall server-solaris 2.6.  Appreciate your
> assistance!
> > 
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