CDE not starting in Sol9 after patch bundle installation

From: Alex Pokras (Alex.Pokras_at_rci.rogers.com)
Date: 06/13/03

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    Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:10:53 -0400
    
    

    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".

    I would appreciate any assistance.

    Regards,

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