[SunHELP] DT messaging system error

[Tige D. Chastain]

I too have received this error.  Doing a bunch of research will reveil
that there are MANY problems that can cause this to happen.  Stopping
RPC is one, as mentioned.  Also, if your ~/.dt environment is borked, it
will give the same error message.  In the past, I have found removing
the ~/.dt directory and/or rebooting the box resolved the issue. 
Unfortunately, when I was troubleshooting the problem, I had 20 other
issues to deal with as well.  

The quick fix for me was a reboot.

You can take a look in ~/.dt/ and look at the error logs to get a
(usually unhelpful) message on what failed during login.

Hope this helps.

Tige

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 23:19, Yazid wrote:
> I have encountered this problem before, if I remember correctly it
> happened after we disabled rpc. Check rpcbind is running on your
> system...
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:48:28 +0400, Irfan Baloch <irfan_baloch at zu.ac.ae> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have just installed Solaris 9. I am getting following message on
> > startup:
> > 
> > "DT Messaging system cannot be started"
> > 
> > It says to check hostname in /etc/hosts and couple of other files.
> > 
> > On presssing OK button the system again takes to login page. Next time
> > when you enter Username, password it does not show this message and
> > allows to login.
> > 
> > Is this a known issue with Solaris 9?
> > 
> > Would appreciate any help.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Irfan Baloch
> > Zayed University,
> > Dubai, United Arab Emirates
> > irfan_baloch at zu.ac.ae
> > Phone: +9714 2082384
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