All:
Have an HP-UX server running init level 3, dtlogin shows up in ps -ef, but when you try to connect to this server via X browser (on Win XP), the browser comes up with just a gray screen w/mouse pointer.
All the other HP-UX boxes on the same subnet come up with a pretty dtlogin screen.
Any assistance, much appreciated.
CDE will only start at run-level 3 if /etc/rc.config.d/desktop file contains:
DESKTOP=CDE
Look at your /etc/rc.log and search for 'dtlogin'.
You should see Sxxxdtlogin.rc start almost at the end.
If there are any errors, then you will need to fix them.
All the best
DESKTOP=CDE, check.
Sxxxdtlogin.rc start, check.
Still a gray screen.
I had a case where dtlogin was corrupted:
copied from another box and all worked again:
phar # ll dtlog*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 389280 Mar 29 2007 dtlogin
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 389280 Mar 29 2007 dtlogin.ezra
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 389512 Sep 27 2001 dtlogin.phar
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 389512 Sep 27 2001 dtlogin.ori?
I kept a trace of the manip:
331 Password required for vbe.
Password:
230 User vbe logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> cd /usr/dt/bin
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> get dtlogin
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for dtlogin (389280 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
389280 bytes received in 0.15 seconds (2540.79 Kbytes/s)
ftp> bye
221 Goodbye.
phar # ll dtlo*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 389280 Mar 29 15:19 dtlogin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 389512 Sep 27 2001 dtlogin.phar
phar # chown root:bin dtlogin
phar # chmod 555 dtlogin
phar # cp -p dtlogin dtlogin.ezra
phar # /sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc stop
phar # ps -ef|grep dtlo
root 11523 3322 2 15:21:26 pts/1 0:00 grep dtlo
phar # /sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc start
#And now it works......
Addendum: These are HP.UX 11.00 32Bit files..
I forgot to mention:
There is a tool in /usr/contrib/bin/X11 called dr_dt to help diagnose CDE issues, give it a try...
All the best