SUMMARY: CDE not starting in Sol9 after patch bundle installation

Hi Gurus,

Many thanks to those who replied:
  Ian Veach <imail@nevada.edu> 
  Steve Sandau <ssandau@bath.tmac.com>
  Claude Charest <charest@Canr.Hydro.Qc.Ca>

Claude Charest provided a simple and quick solution.

Claude Charest wrote:
> I have had the same problem with a SunBlade 150, just
> after I installed the "Solaris 9 Maintenance Update 3".
> It is related with patch 113796-02 with another patche
> in MU3. To solve your problem remove and re-install
> patch 113796-02.

So, the problem is apparently in a patch installation
sequence. I did "patchrm" and "patchadd" and everything
is now working fine. Actually I was able to log in to 
CDE right after "patchrm", but it seems to be important
to re-apply the patch afterwards.

Thanks a lot, Claude!

Here goes my original posting:

> From: Alex Pokras 
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 4:11 PM
> To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
> Subject: CDE not starting in Sol9 after patch bundle installation
> 
> Hi Gurus,
> 
> I cannot start CDE on my Sun Blade 100 workstation,
> running Solaris 9. The famous error message is:
> 
>    "The DT messaging system could not be started.
>    To correct the problem, select the Failsafe session
>    and log in. Check that the hostname is correct in
>    these locations: /etc/src.sh /etc/hosts
>    /usr/adm/inetd.sec"
> 
> etc. I have checked the available sources on the Internet,
> including archives of this mail list. Anything that solved
> similar problem for different people out there didn't work
> for me. In most situation the problem was caused by lack
> of disk space or write permissions in user's home dirs. 
> 
> But in my case I cannot run the CDE even as "root" (not to
> say about all the other users), so there is no permission
> problem. There is plenty of disk space available and no
> disk quotas enabled on the system. The problem appeared
> right after I have installed latest recommended patches
> bundle, downloaded from SunSolve). 
> 
> I can close the "The DT messaging system could not be
> started" pop-up window and even work in CDE somehow, but
> with limited functionality. Also another message pops up
> frequently saying "Message System inoperative" and urging
> to logout and log in again.
> 
> I have tried to track down the problem through error log
> files and error messages, but it seems that they don't
> reflect the actual problem and are quite misleading.
> 
> About the system: One 500MHz CPU, 256M of RAM.
> "uname -a" output: "SunOS cabadm1 5.9 Generic_112233-06
> sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100".

Regards,
--
Alex Pokras
Rogers Cable, Toronto
E-mail: apokras@rci.rogers.com
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