I posted this question (recapped below) and received several responses,
all incorrect. Thanks and my appreciation anyway go to:
Gerhard den Hollander <gerhard@james.jason.nl>
rsaddler@cccis.com
who both thought it had to do with my setting of DTSOURCEPROFILE in my
.dtprofile (which I have tried set to true, false, and undefined with
no change), to
Ray Delaney <rdelaney@bbt.com>
who thought that /sbin/sh was non-existant (it isn't), to
Salehi, Michael E <Mike.Salehi@usa.xerox.com>
who told me where to find the log files I had already attached to my
original posting, and suggested renaming my .login, .cshrc and .profile
(if they were the problem why can I login on other machines using the
same automounted home directory, and why can I login w/ OW but not CDE,
and why can't I use CDE with any user account), and to
Arthur J. Byrnes <abyrnes@stetson.edu>
who suggested making sure my naming services were working (they are).
In case this wasn't clear before, I'll state this more clearly:
My problem has nothing to do with anything related to an individual user.
These accounts worked fine before I re-installed the OS. They work fine
on other similar hosts. This host is not the file server.
It has to do with the system's setup.
So, are there any more suggestions out there?
My original question:
> I just reinstalled Solaris 7 on a SS20. It was working before, but I
> wanted to remove some packages and re-layout my disks, and pkgrm failed
> indicating a corrupt installation database, so I decided to rebuild it.
>
> On rebuilding, I now can't login to CDE via dtlogin as either root
> or as a normal user. It puts up the dthello screen, then a few seconds
> later flashes a white screen, then black, then dtlogin.
>
> I *can* login to openwin. I can also login via command line.
>
> I have the following patches installed:
>
> 106147-02 106963-01 107038-01 107094-03 107180-02 107355-01
> 106300-06 106980-04 107058-01 107104-03 107180-04 107357-01
> 106327-05 107001-01 107072-01 107171-01 107200-03 107358-01
> 106541-01 107011-01 107078-03 107175-01 107226-02 107551-01
> 106960-01 107022-02 107094-02 107178-01 107248-01 107607-01
>
> My resulting log files look like the following.
>
> /.dt/startlog:
>
> --- Mon Apr 26 15:01:23 PDT 1999
> --- /usr/dt/bin/Xsession starting...
> --- starting /usr/openwin/bin/speckeysd
> --- Xsession started by dtlogin
> --- starting /usr/dt/bin/dtsession_res -load -system
> --- sourcing //.dtprofile...
> --- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0010.dtpaths...
> --- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0015.sun.env...
> --- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0020.dtims...
> --- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0030.dttmpdir...
> --- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0040.xmbind...
> --- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/1000.solregis...
> --- starting /usr/dt/bin/dthello &
> --- starting /usr/dt/bin/dtsearchpath
> --- starting /usr/dt/bin/dtappgather &
> --- starting /usr/dt/bin/dsdm &
> --- session log file is //.dt/sessionlogs/aladdin_DISPLAY=:0
> --- DTSOURCEPROFILE is 'false' (see //.dtprofile)
> --- execing /usr/dt/bin/dtsession with a /sbin/sh non-login shell...
> --- starting desktop on /dev/pts/2
> /usr/dt/bin/ttsession[3527]: starting
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>
> /.dt/errorlog:
>
> Mon Apr 26 15:01:31 1999
> dtsession: Connection to server lost - exiting.
>
> Mon Apr 26 15:01:32 1999
> Workspace Manager: I/O error on display:: :0.0
>
> /.dt/sessionlogs/aladdin_DISPLAY=:0:
>
> -- Session log created Mon Apr 26 15:01:24 PDT 1999
>
> Any ideas what is wrong here?
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David L. Markowitz Director, UNIX Software
David.Markowitz@litronic.com Litronic Industries
http://members.home.net/rttrek http://www.litronic.com/
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